The 6th federal electoral district of Veracruz () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 19 such districts in the state of Veracruz.
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 current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Jaime Humberto Pérez Bernabé of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections. The reconfigured 6th district covers 250 electoral precincts () across 13 municipalities in the Totonaca region of the state: Cazones de Herrera, Chumatlán, Coahuitlán, Coatzintla, Coxquihui, Coyutla, Espinal, Filomeno Mata, Gutiérrez Zamora, Mecatlán, Papantla, Tecolutla and Zozocolco.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Papantla de Olarte. The district reported a population of 416,607 in the 2020 census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 67% 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 Veracruz 15 23 23 21 20 19 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms.
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 6th district still had its head town at Papantla and it comprised 15 municipalities: Coahuitlán, Colipa, Coxquihui, Coyutla, Chumatlán, Espinal, Filomeno Mata, Gutiérrez Zamora, Mecatlán, Nautla, Papantla, San Rafael, Tecolutla, Vega de Alatorre and Zozocolco.
2005–2017 Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the district had its head town at Papantla and it covered 11 municipalities: The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans. Coahuitlán, Coxquihui, Coyutla, Chumatlán, Espinal, Filomeno Mata, Gutiérrez Zamora, Mecatlán, Papantla, Tecolutla and Zozocolco.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Papantla and the district covered 9 municipalities. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered.
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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23. The 6th district had its head town at Xalapa and it covered the municipalities of Acatlán, Xalapa, Naolinco and Tepetlán.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Veracruz's 6th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureEliseo L. Céspedes1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...19731973–197649th Congress1976Carlos Manuel Vargas Sánchez1976–197950th Congress1979Luis Octavio Porte Petit Moreno1979–198251st Congress1982Salvador Valencia Carmona 1982–198552nd Congress1985Héctor Yunes Landa1985–198853rd Congress1988Ricardo Olivares Pineda1988–199154th Congress1991Rubén Pabello Rojas1991–199455th Congress1994Ignacio González Rebolledo1994–199756th Congress1997Domingo Yorio Saqui1997–200057th Congress2000Bonifacio Castillo Cruz2000–200358th Congress2003Rómulo Salazar Macías2003–200659th Congress2006José Manuel del Río Virgen2006–200960th Congress2009Francisco Herrera Jiménez2009–201261st Congress2012Alma Jeanny Arroyo Ruiz2012–201562nd Congress2015Heidi Salazar Espinosa2015–201863rd Congress2018Jaime Humberto Pérez Bernabé2018–202164th Congress2021Jaime Humberto Pérez Bernabé2021–202465th Congress2024Jaime Humberto Pérez Bernabé2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Veracruz's 6th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 49.64572024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 68.6493
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