The 7th federal electoral district of Chihuahua () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
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 ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.
Suspended in 1930, the 7th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. Under the 1975 districting plan, Chihuahua had only six congressional districts; with the 1977 reforms, the number increased to ten. The restored 7th district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Jesús Roberto Corral Ordóñez of the Labour Party (PT).
District territory Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the district is located in the centre-west portion of the state, and comprises 509 electoral precincts () across 19 municipalities: Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Galeana, Santa Isabel, Gómez Farías, Gran Morelos, Guerrero, Ignacio Zaragoza, Madera, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ocampo, Riva Palacio and Temósachic.
Its head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. The district reported a population of 431,078 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Chihuahua 6 10 9 9 9 9 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the 7th district covered a different configuration of municipalities in the centre and west of the state: Bachíniva, Bocoyna, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Chínipas, Santa Isabel, Gómez Farías, Gran Morelos, Guazapares, Guerrero, Madera, Maguarichi, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Ocampo, Riva Palacio, Temósachic and Uruachi. Ciudad Cuauhtémoc served as its head town.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 7th district covered the municipalities of Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc, Galeana, Gómez Farías, Guerrero, Ignacio Zaragoza, Madera, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ocampo, Riva Palacio and Temósachi in the west of the state. The head town was Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. Between 1996 and 2005, the 7th district was located in the centre-west portion of the state and comprised mostly municipalities of the Sierra Tarahumara region: Bachíniva, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichí, Chínipas, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Gran Morelos, Guazapares, Guerrero, Maguarichi, Moris, Nonoava, Ocampo, Riva Palacio, San Francisco de Borja, Santa Isabel, Satevó, Uruachi and Urique.
1978–1996 The districting scheme in force from 1978 to 1996 was the result of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, Chihuahua's seat allocation rose from six to ten. The restored 7th district comprised the southern portion of the state capital, the city of Chihuahua, the rural areas of its surrounding municipality, and the municipalities of Aldama, Aquiles Serdán, Santa Isabel, Julimes and Meoqui. The link provides a detailed description of the district's coverage within the city and municipality.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chihuahua's 7th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature The 7th district was suspended between 1930 and 19791979Demetrio Bernardo Franco Derma1979–198251st Congress1982Juan Manuel Terrazas Sánchez1982–198552nd Congress1985Jorge Doroteo Zapata1985–198853rd Congress1988Carlos Barranco Fuentes1988–199154th Congress1991Eloy Gómez Pando1991–199455th Congress1994Mario de la Torre Hernández1994–199756th Congress1997Odórico Vázquez Bernal1997–200057th Congress2000Jorge Esteban Sandoval2000–200358th Congress2003Jorge Castillo Cabrera2003–200659th Congress2006Israel Beltrán Montes2006–200960th Congress2009Guadalupe Pérez Domínguez2009–201261st Congress2012Kamel Athie Flores2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress2018 2018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Jesús Roberto Corral Ordóñez 2024–202766th Congress
Congressional results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1979 to 2021.
2 July 2006 general election: Chihuahua's 7th Party or Alliance Candidate Votes Percentage National Action Party Jeffrey Jones 36,863 Alliance for Mexico(PRI, PVEM) Israel Beltrán Montes 56,327 Coalition for the Good of All(PRD, PT, Convergencia) Víctor Quintana Silveyra 27.782 New Alliance Party Austreberta Bustamante Grajeda 6,855 Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Ramiro Encontrías Ontiveros 1,100 Unregistered candidates 137 Spoilt papers 4,113 Total 131,195 Source: IFE.
Presidential elections + Chihuahua's 7th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 46.39302024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 48.2632
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