6th federal electoral district of Chiapas


The 6th 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.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Flor de María Esponda Torres of the National Regeneration Movement.

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 5th district covers 169 electoral precincts across 10 municipalities:
The district's head town, where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The district reported a population of 431,967 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

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

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1967Patrocinio González Garrido1967–197047th Congress
1970Octavio Cal y Mayor Sauz1970–197348th Congress
1973María Guadalupe Cruz Aranda1973–197649th Congress
1976Leonardo León Cerpa1976–197950th Congress
1979Alberto Ramón Cerdio Bado1979–198251st Congress
1982Humberto Pulido García1982–198552nd Congress
1985Ylse Sarmiento Gómez1985–198853rd Congress
1988Romeo Ruiz Armento1988–199154th Congress
1991Marlene Herrera Díaz1991–199455th Congress
1994Rafael Ceballos Cancino1994–199756th Congress
1997
Agustín Santiago Albores		1997–1999
1999–2000		57th Congress
2000Roberto Domínguez Castellanos2000–200358th Congress
2003Roberto Aguilar Hernández2003–200659th Congress
2006Héctor Narcia Álvarez2006–200960th Congress
2009Mirna Lucrecia Camacho Pedrero2009–201261st Congress
2012Williams Ochoa Gallegos2012–201562nd Congress
2015Sasil Dora Luz de León Villard2015–201863rd Congress
2018Zoé Robledo Aburto
Raúl Bonifaz Moedano		2018
2018–2021		64th Congress
2021 2021–202465th Congress
2024Flor de María Esponda Torres2024–202766th Congress