8th federal electoral district of Chiapas


The 8th federal electoral district of Chiapas is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 13 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation deputies elected from the third region.
Chiapas's 8th district was created as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. Under the 1975 districting plan, Chiapas had only six congressional districts; with the 1977 reforms, the number increased to nine. The newly created district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Roberto Armando Albores Gleason of the Labour Party.

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,
Chiapas's 8th district covers 171 electoral precincts across seven municipalities near the Guatemalan border:
The head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Comitán de Domínguez. The district reported a population of 423,840 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

2005–2017
2005–2017
1996–2005
'''1978–1996'''

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1979Juan Sabines Gutiérrez
Alberto Cuesy Balboa		1979
1979–1982		51st Congress
1982Germán Jiménez Gómez1982–198552nd Congress
1985Óscar Ochoa Zepeda1985–198853rd Congress
1988Leyber Martínez González1988–199154th Congress
1991Ricardo López Gómez1991–199455th Congress
1994Germán Jiménez Gómez1994–199756th Congress
1997Juan Carlos Gómez Aranda1997–200057th Congress
2000Roberto Javier Fuentes Domínguez2000–200358th Congress
2003Mario Culebro Velasco2003–200659th Congress
2006Arnulfo Cordero Alfonzo2006–200960th Congress
2009Roberto Armando Albores Gleason2009–201261st Congress
2012Óscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar2012–201562nd Congress
2015Luis Ignacio Avendaño Bermúdez
Uberly López Roblero		2015–2017
2017–2018		63rd Congress
20182018–202164th Congress
20212021–202465th Congress
2024Roberto Armando Albores Gleason2024–202766th Congress