The 11th 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 ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the third region.
The 11th district was created in 1996. Between 1979 and 1996, Chiapas only had nine federal electoral districts; the 1996 redistricting process increased the number to 12. The new district elected its first deputy in the 1997 mid-terms.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Rosario del Carmen Moreno Villatoro 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, the 11th district comprises 132 electoral precincts () across 11 municipalities: Altamirano, Amatenango del Valle, Chanal, Huixtán, La Independencia, Las Margaritas, Las Rosas, Maravilla Tenejapa, Oxchuc, San Cristóbal de Las Casas (part) and Teopisca.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Las Margaritas. The district reported a population of 416,628 in the 2020 census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 63% of that total, 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:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district covered 10 municipalities: the same as the 2022 plan with the exclusion of Las Rosas.
2005–2017 The district was in the south of the state, covering a portion of the Soconusco region and the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands. It comprised the municipalities of Amatenango de la Frontera, Bejucal de Ocampo, Cacahoatán, El Porvenir, Huehuetán, Huixtla, La Grandeza, Mazapa de Madero, Mazatán, Motozintla, Siltepec, Tuzantán, Unión Juárez and the extreme north of the municipality of Tapachula. The head town was the city of Huixtla.
1996–2005 Between 1996 and 2005, the district covered only the municipalities of the southern Soconusco: Huehuetán, Huixtla, Mazatán and Tuzantán, as in the 2005 scheme, plus: Acacoyagua, Acapetagua, Escuintla, Mapastepec and Villa Comaltitlán.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Chiapas's 11th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1997Areli Madrid Tovilla1997–200057th Congress2000Óscar Alvarado Cook 2000–200358th Congress2003César González Orantes2003–200659th Congress2006Anuario Luis Herrera Solís 2006–200960th Congress2009Carlos Martínez Martínez2009–201261st Congress2012Hugo Mauricio Pérez Anzueto2012–201562nd Congress2015Enrique Zamora Morlet2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Rosario del Carmen Moreno Villatoro 2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Chiapas's 11th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 39.10702024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 80.3064
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