The 17th 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 17th district was re-established in 1978 and was subsequently contested in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is 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 17th district covers 342 electoral precincts () across 18 municipalities in the state's Papaloapan region: Acula, Alvarado, Amatitlán, Carlos A. Carrillo, Chacaltianguis, Cosamaloapan, Ignacio de la Llave, Ixmatlahuacan, José Azueta, Lerdo de Tejada, Otatitlán, Saltabarranca, Tierra Blanca, Tlacojalpan, Tlacotalpan, Tlalixcoyan, Tres Valles and Tuxtilla.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Cosamaloapan. The district reported a population of 433,401 in the 2020 census.
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 17th district comprised 14 municipalities, with some overlap with the 2023 scheme: Acayucan, Cosamaloapan, Chacaltianguis, Isla, Ixmatlahuacan, Juan Rodríguez Clara, Otatitlán, Playa Vicente, José Azueta, Tlacojalpan, Tuxtilla, Tres Valles, Carlos A. Carrillo and Santiago Sochiapan. Its head town was the city of Cosamaloapan.
2005–2017 Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the 17th district had its head town at Cosamaloapan and it comprised 12 municipalities: The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans. Alvarado, Cosamaloapan, Cotaxtla, Ignacio de la Llave, Ixmatlahuacan, Jamapa, Medellín, Otatitlán, Tierra Blanca, Tlacojalpan, Tlalixcoyan and Tres Valles.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, which assigned Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was moved to Cosamaloapan and the district covered 11 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 newly created 17th district had its head town at Chicontepec in the state's northern Huasteca Baja region and it covered the municipalities of Benito Juárez, Chicontepec, Huayacocotla, Ilamatlán, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Texcatepec, Tlachichilco, Zacualpan and Zontecomatlán.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Veracruz's 17th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1979Manuel Ramos Gurrión1979–198251st Congress1982Elpidia Excelente Azuara1982–198552nd Congress1985Héctor Aguirre Barragán1985–198853rd Congress1988Antonio Cruz Sánchez1988–199154th Congress1991Rufino Saucedo Márquez1991–199455th Congress1994Alicia González Cerecedo1994–199756th Congress1997Francisco Javier Loyo Ramos1997–200057th Congress2000Francisco Arano Montero2000–200358th Congress2003Diego Palmero Andrade2003–200659th Congress2006Osiel Castro de la Rosa2006–200960th Congress2009José Tomás Carrillo SánchezJosé Luis Álvarez Martínez2009–20102010–201261st Congress2012Gabriel de Jesús Cárdenas Guízar2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress2021Abel Ramírez Ortiz2021–2024202465th Congress20242024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Veracruz's 17th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 54.16122024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 69.2211
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