The 6th federal electoral district of Yucatán () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of six such districts in the state of Yucatán.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period 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.
Created by the National Electoral Institute (INE) as part of the 2023 redistricting process, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. The inaugural member for the district, elected in June 2024, is Jessica Saiden Quiroz of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Yucatán 3 4 5 5 5 6 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
The 6th district was created as part of the National Electoral Institute's 2023 redistricting process to reflect shifting population dynamics across the country. Under the new districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 6th district comprises 145 electoral precincts () in the urban core of the municipality of Mérida and the whole of the neighbouring municipality of Kanasín.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Mérida. The district had a population of 373,556 in the 2020 census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 47% of that number, Yucatán's sixth – like all the state's electoral districts, both local and federal – is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Yucatán's 6th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature2024Jessica Saiden Quiroz2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Yucatán's 6th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 61.9017
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