The 6th federal electoral district of Coahuila () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of eight such districts in the state of Coahuila.
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 second region.
Suspended in 1930, the 6th district was re-established as part of the 1977 political reforms and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election. The restored district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-terms.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Cintia Cuevas Sánchez of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory In its 2023 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the National Electoral Institute (INE) assigned Coahuila an additional district. The reconfigured 6th district covers 190 electoral precincts () in the northern portion of the municipality of Torreón.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Torreón. The district reported a population of 358,152 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Coahuila 4 7 7 7 7 8 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district covered 161 precincts in the municipality of Torreón, with the remainder of the municipality assigned to the 5th district. The head town was at Torreon.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 6th district covered 161 precincts in the northern half of the municipality of Torreón. The city of Torreón was the head town. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 scheme, the district covered the western portion of the city of Torreón.
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, Coahuila's seat allocation rose from 4 to 7. The 6th district had its head town at Torreón and it covered a part of the city and the rural portion of its municipality. The link contains an exact description of the area covered.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Coahuila's 6th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureJacobo Cárdenas1922–192430th Congress1924Marcos A. Hernández1924–192631st Congress1926Domingo P. Acosta1926–192832nd Congress1928Raymundo Cervera1928–193033rd Congress The 6th district was suspended from 1930 to 19791979Francisco José Madero González1979–198251st Congress1982Enrique Agüero Ávalos1982–198552nd Congress1985Heriberto Ramos Salas1985–198853rd Congress1988Humberto Roque Villanueva1988–199154th Congress1991Mariano López MercadoIrma Mayela Adame Aguayo1991–19931993–199455th Congress1994Jesús Salvador Hernández Vélez1994–199756th Congress1997Alberto González Domene1997–200057th Congress2000Guillermo Anaya LlamasSilvestre Enrique Faya Viesca2000–20022002–200358th Congress2003 Vacant 2003–20042004–200659th Congress2006Jesús de León TelloFlorentina Medrano Echeverría2006–2009200960th Congress2009Héctor Fernández Aguirre2009–201261st Congress2012Marcelo Torres Cofiño2012–201562nd Congress2015José Refugio Sandoval Rodríguez2015–201863rd Congress2018 2018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Cintia Cuevas Sánchez2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Coahuila's 6th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 49.52172024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 52.7248
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