2nd federal electoral district of Durango

The 2nd federal electoral district of Durango is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of four such districts in the state of Durango.
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 first region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Betzabé Martínez Arango. Originally elected for the Labour Party, she switched allegiance to the National Regeneration Movement on 19 September 2024.

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,
the 2nd district covers 335 electoral precincts across 10 municipalities in the north of the state:

Gómez Palacio, Hidalgo, Indé, Mapimí, Ocampo, El Oro, San Bernardo, San Luis del Cordero, San Pedro del Gallo and Tlahualilo.

The head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Gómez Palacio. The district reported a population of 454,368 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

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

Deputies returned to Congress

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
	Rafael Espeleta		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
1917	Francisco Arreola R.		1917–1918	27th Congress
1918			1918–1920	28th Congress
1920	Ignacio Borrego		1920–1922	29th Congress
	Lorenzo Gámiz		1922–1924	30th Congress
1924	Salvador Reyes Avilés		1924–1926	31st Congress
1926	Pedro Álvarez		1926–1928	32nd Congress 33rd Congress
1928	Pedro Álvarez		1928–1930	33rd Congress
1930	Liborio Espinosa y Elenes		1930–1932	34th Congress
1932	Dionisio Ortiz Acosta		1932–1934	35th Congress
1934	Roberto López Franco		1934–1937	36th Congress
1937	Tomás Palomino Rojas		1937–1940	37th Congress
1940	Mariano Padilla		1940–1943	38th Congress
1943	Miguel Breceda		1943–1946	39th Congress
1946	J. Encarnación Chávez		1946–1949	40th Congress
1949	Carlos Real Jr		1949–1952	41st Congress
1952	Enrique Dupré Ceniceros		1952–1955	42nd Congress
1955	Manuel Garcia Santibáñez		1955–1958	43rd Congress
1958	Francisco Torres García		1958–1961	44th Congress
1961	Gonzalo Salas Rodríguez		1961–1964	45th Congress
1964	Jesús José Reyes Acevedo Soto		1964–1967	46th Congress
1967	J. Natividad Ibarra Rayas		1967–1970	47th Congress
1970	Manuel Esquivel Gámez		1970–1973	48th Congress
1973	Jesús José Gamero Gamero		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Maximiliano Silerio Esparza		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Eduardo López Faudoa		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Jesús Ibarra Rayas		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Cristóbal Julián García Ramírez		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	J. Natividad Ibarra Rayas		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	José Miguel Castro Carrillo		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Sabino González Alba		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Francisco Javier Ponce Ortega		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Francisco Raúl Ramírez Ávila		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Rosario Sáenz López		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Juana Leticia Herrera Ale		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Ricardo Rebollo Mendoza		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Marina Vitela Rodríguez		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	María del Rocío Rebollo Mendoza		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018	Marina Vitela Rodríguez Lourdes Montes Hernández		2018–2019 2019–2021	64th Congress
2021	Omar Castañeda González		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024	Betzabé Martínez Arango		2024–2027	66th Congress