1st federal electoral district of Chiapas


The 1st federal electoral district of Chiapas is one of the Federal [electoral districts of Mexico|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 period 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.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Carlos Morelos Rodríguez 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 elections,
the 1st district covers 129 electoral precincts across eight municipalities in north-eastern Chiapas:
The head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Palenque. The district reported a population of 410,229 in the 2020 Census. With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 71% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022
2005–2017
1996–2005
'''1978–1996'''

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1958Juan Sabines Gutiérrez1958–196144th Congress
1961Rafael Gamboa Cano1961–196445th Congress
1964Jesús Cancino Casahonda1964–196746th Congress
1967Martha Luz Rincón Castillejos1967–197047th Congress
1970José Casahonda Castillo1970–197348th Congress
1973Carlos Moguel Sarmiento1973–197649th Congress
1976Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez1976–197950th Congress
1979Rafael Pascacio Gamboa1979–198251st Congress
19821982–198552nd Congress
19851985–198853rd Congress
1988Antonio Pariente Algarín1988–199154th Congress
1991Antonio García Sánchez1991–199455th Congress
1994Walter Antonio León Montoya1994–199756th Congress
1997Arquímides León Ovando1997–200057th Congress
2000Jesús Alejandro Cruz Gutiérrez2000–200358th Congress
2003Jorge Utrilla Robles2003–200659th Congress
2006Yary del Carmen Gebhardt Garduza2006–200960th Congress
2009Juan Carlos López Fernández2009–201261st Congress
2012Lourdes Adriana López Moreno2012–201562nd Congress
2015Leonardo Rafael Guirao Aguilar2015–201863rd Congress
2018Manuela Obrador Narváez2018–202164th Congress
2021Manuela Obrador Narváez2021–202465th Congress
2024Carlos Morelos Rodríguez2024–202766th Congress