The 5th 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 period 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 third region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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, Chiapas's 5th district covers 138 electoral precincts () across five municipalities in the central region of the state: Chamula, San Cristóbal de Las Casas (part), San Juan Cancuc, Tenejapa and Zinacantán.
The district's head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The district reported a population of 447,249 in the 2020 census; with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 69% of its population, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Chiapas 6 9 12 12 13 13 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2005–2017 Between 2017 and 2022, in addition to the five it comprises in the 2022 plan, the district also covered the municipality of San Lucas. The head town was at San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
2005–2017 In 2005–2017, the 5th district was located in the Chiapas Highlands north-western portion of the state and covered the municipalities of Amatenango del Valle, Chamula, Huixtán, Mitontic, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Tenejapa, Teopisca and Zinacantán. The head town was at San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
1996–2005 Between 1996 and 2005, the district had a slightly different configuration. It covered the following municipalities: Chamula, Huixtan, Mitontic, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Tenejapa and Zinacantán, which remained part of the 2005–2017 composition, plus: Chalchihuitán, Chenalhó, Larráinzar and Pantelhó.
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, Chiapas's seat allocation rose from six to nine. The 5th district had its head town at Tapachula and it covered eight municipalities. The link provides a list of the constituent municipalities.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chiapas's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1976Gonzalo Esponda Zebadúa1976–197950th Congress1979Jaime Coutiño Esquinca1979–198251st Congress1982Faustino Roos Mazo1982–198552nd Congress1985Antonio Melgar Aranda1985–198853rd Congress1988César Ricardo Naumann Escobar1988–199154th Congress1991José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas1991–199455th Congress1994Hildiberto Ochoa Samayos1994–199756th Congress1997Gilberto Velasco Rodríguez1997–200057th Congress2000Nicolás Lorenzo Álvarez Martínez2000–200358th Congress2003Florencio Collazo Gómez2003–200659th Congress2006Jorge Mario Lescieur Talavera2006–200960th Congress2009Sergio Lobato García2009–201261st Congress2012Luis Gómez Gómez2012–201562nd Congress2015María Soledad Sandoval Martínez2015–201863rd Congress2018Clementina Marta Dekker Gómez 2018–202164th Congress2021Yeimi Aguilar Cifuentes2021–202465th Congress2024Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán 2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Chiapas's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 60.10132024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 49.2693
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