The 4th federal electoral district of Durango () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of four such districts in the state of Durango.
The district elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session through the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also contribute to the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado of the National Action Party (PAN).
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 4th district covers 414 electoral precincts () in the mostly urban portion of the municipality of Durango excluded from the 1st district.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Victoria de Durango. The district reported a population of 461,881 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Durango 4 6 5 4 4 4 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources: INE, González Casanova, Baños/Palacios, INE
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the 4th district's head town was at Victoria de Durango and it covered 233 precincts in the north-east of the municipality.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 plan, Durango's single-member district count fell from five to four. This district's head town was at Victoria de Durango and it covered 220 precincts in the east of the municipality. The link contains maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 In the 1996 scheme, Durango's seats were reduced from six to five. The 4th district had its head town at Victoria de Durango and it comprised seven municipalities: Durango (113 precincts in the north of the municipality, with the remainder assigned to the 5th district), Pueblo Nuevo, Mezquital, Nombre de Dios, Poanas Súchil and Vicente Guerrero.
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, Durango's seat allocation rose from four to six. The reconfigured 4th district's head town was at Guadalupe Victoria and it covered 11 municipalities: Cuencamé, Coneto de Comonfort, General Simón Bolívar, Guadalupe Victoria, Pánuco de Coronado, Peñón Blanco, Poanas, Rodeo, San Juan de Guadalupe, San Juan del Río and Santa Clara,
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Durango's 4th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureFernando Castaños1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro1917Alfonso Breceda1917–191827th Congress1918Alfonso Breceda1918–192028th Congress1920Rodrigo Gómez1920–192229th CongressRodrigo Gómez1920–192430th Congress 1924Rodrigo Gómez1924–1926 31st Congress1926Vacant1926–192832nd Congress1928Alfonso Cruz1928–193033rd Congress1930Vacant1930–193234th Congress1932Alejandro Antuna López1932–193435th Congress1934Miguel León Tostado1934–193736th Congress1937Atanasio Arrieta 1937–194037th Congress1940Manuel Solórzano Soto1940–194338th Congress1943Juan Manuel Tinoco1943–194639th Congress1946Eulogio V. Salazar1946–194940th Congress19491949–195241st Congress1952Braulio Meraz Nevárez1952–195542nd Congress1955Pablo Picharra Esparza1955–195843rd Congress1958Ezequiel Nevárez Ramírez1958–196144th Congress1961José Antonio Ramírez Martínez1961–196445th Congress1964Braulio Meraz Nevárez1964–196746th Congress1967José Antonio Ramírez Martínez 1967–197047th Congress1970Jacinto Moreno Villalba1970–197348th Congress1973José Mario Rivas Escalante1973–197649th Congress1976José Ramírez Gamero1976–197950th Congress 1979Miguel Ángel Fragoso Álvarez 1979–198251st Congress1982Maximiliano Silerio Esparza1982–198552nd Congress1985José Ramón García Soto1985–198853rd Congress19881988–199154th Congress1991Benjamín Ávila Guzmán1991–199455th Congress1994Ricardo Pacheco Rodríguez1994–199756th Congress1997Ángel Sergio Guerrero MierJesús Gutiérrez Vargas1997–19981998–200057th Congress2000Gustavo Lugo Espinoza 2000–200358th Congress2003Jaime Fernández Saracho2003–200659th Congress2006Jorge Salum del Palacio2006–200960th Congress2009Jorge Herrera CalderaPedro Ávila Nevárez 2009–201061st Congress2012Jorge Herrera Delgado2012–2014 2014–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress2018Hilda Patricia Ortega Nájera2018–202164th Congress2021Gina Campuzano González2021–202465th Congress2024Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Durango's 4th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 44.26702024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 49.4164
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