The 7th 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 7th district was re-established as part of the 1977 political reforms and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Antonio Lorenzo Castro Villarreal of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory In its 2022 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 7th district covers 223 electoral precincts () in the more rural portion of the municipality of Saltillo.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Saltillo. The district reported a population of 441,607 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 220 precincts in the municipality of Saltillo and the municipalities of General Cepeda and Parras in their entirety. The head town was at Saltillo.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting scheme, the district covered 171 precincts in the west of the municipality of Saltillo. The head town was at Saltillo. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 scheme, the district covered the south-west portion of the city of Saltillo and the southern part of its municipality. Saltillo was the head town.
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 7th district had its head town at San Pedro de las Colonias and it comprised the municipalities of Cuatrociénegas, Lamadrid, Múzquiz, Ocampo, Sacramento, San Juan de Sabinas, San Pedro and Sierra Mojada. The link contains an exact description of the area covered.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Coahuila's 7th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureElpidio Barrera1922–192430th Congress1924Vacant1924–192631st Congress1926Francisco De Valle1926–192832nd Congress1928Adolfo Mondragón Bouckhardt1928–193033rd CongressThe seventh district was suspended from 1930 to 19791979Lorenzo García Zárate1979–198251st Congress1982Juan Antonio García Guerrero1982–198552nd Congress1985Gonzalo Padilla Fuentes1985–198853rd Congress1988Noé Fernando Garza Flores1988–199154th Congress1991Javier Guerrero García1991–199455th Congress1994José Luis Flores Méndez1994–199756th Congress1997Enrique Martínez y MartínezPilar Cabrera Hernández1997–19991999–200057th Congress2000Miguel Arizpe Jiménez2000–200358th Congress2003Fernando de las FuentesAldo Martínez Hernández2003–20052005–200659th Congress2006Óscar Mohamar Dainitín2006–200960th Congress2009Héctor Franco LópezLily Fabiola de la Rosa Cortés2009–20112011–201261st Congress2012Esther Quintana Salinas2012–201562nd Congress2015Jericó Abramo MassoMario Alberto Mata Quintero2015–2017201863rd Congress2018Fernando de las Fuentes HernándezSergio Armando Sisbeles Alvarado2018–2021202164th Congress2021Jaime Bueno Zertuche2021–202465th Congress2024Antonio Lorenzo Castro Villarreal2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Coahuila's 7th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 41.50282024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 55.5071
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