The 1st federal electoral district of Tlaxcala () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of three such districts in the state of Tlaxcala.
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 fourth region.
The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Alejandro Aguilar López 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, Tlaxcala's 1st comprises 239 electoral precincts () across 19 of the state's municipalities: Altzayanca, Apizaco, Atlangatepec, Cuapiaxtla, Cuaxomulco, El Carmen Tequexquitla, Emiliano Zapata, Huamantla, Ixtenco, Lázaro Cárdenas, San José Teacalco, Santa Cruz Tlaxcala, Terrenate, Tetla de la Solidaridad, Tlaxco, Tocatlán, Tzompantepec, Xaloztoc and Zitlaltepec de Trinidad Sánchez Santos.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Apizaco. The district reported a population of 446,499 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Tlaxcala 2 2 3 3 3 3 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 No changes were made to the 1st district in the 2023 redistricting process; under the 2017 districting plan it therefore had the same configuration.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Tlaxcala's 1st district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1958Emilio Sánchez Piedras1958–196144th Congress1961Anselmo Cervantes Hernández1961–19641964Tulio Hernández Gómez1964–196746th Congress1967Nicolás López Galindo1967–197047th Congress1970José Dolores Díaz Flores1970–197348th Congress1973Esteban Minor Quiroz1973–197649th Congress1976Nazario Romero Díaz1976–197950th Congress1979Salvador Domínguez Sánchez1979–198251st Congress1982José Antonio Álvarez Lima1982–198552nd Congress1985Beatriz Paredes Rangel n/d1985–19861986–198853rd Congress19881988–199154th Congress1991Héctor Ortiz Ortiz1991–199455th Congress1994Joaquín Cisneros Fernández1994–199756th Congress1997José Pascual Grande Sánchez1997–200057th Congress2000Javier García González2000–200358th Congress2003Gelacio Montiel Fuentes2003–200659th Congress2006José Alejandro Aguilar LópezMaría Guadalupe Salazar Anaya2006–2009200960th Congress2009Oralia López Hernández2009–201261st Congress2012María Guadalupe Sánchez Santiago2012–201562nd Congress2015Rosalinda Muñoz Sánchez2015–201863rd Congress2018José de la Luz Sosa Salinas2018–202164th Congress2021José Alejandro Aguilar López2021–202465th Congress2024José Alejandro Aguilar López2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Tlaxcala's 1st district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 63.91372024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 67.5988
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