The 10th federal electoral district of Michoacán () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 11 such districts in the state of Michoacán.
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 fifth region.
Suspended in 1930, the 10th district was re-established by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under the reforms, Michoacán's allocation rose from 9 to 13. The restored tenth district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is David Alejandro Cortés Mendoza of the National Action Party (PAN).
District territory Michoacán lost its 12th district in the 2023 districting process carried out by the National Electoral Institute (INE). Under the new districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 10th district covers 208 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) in the south-east sector of the municipality of Morelia.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Morelia. The district reported a population of 425,219 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Michoacán 9 13 13 12 12 11 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district's head town was at Morelia and it comprised 222 precincts in the south-east of the municipality of Morelia.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting plan, Michoacán lost its 13th district. The 10th district's head town was at Morelia and it covered 204 precincts in the south and east of the municipality. The link contains comparative maps of the 2005 and 1996 schemes.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, the district's head town was at Morelia and it covered the southern portion of the municipality.
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 the reforms, Michoacán's allocation rose from 9 to 13. The 10th district's head town was at Quiroga to the west of the state capital and it comprised 15 municipalities in the central part of the state: Acuitzio, Álvaro Obregón, Copándaro, Cuitzeo, Chucándiro, Huandacareo, Huaniqueo, Huiramba, Lagunillas, Morelos, Quiroga, Santa Ana Maya, Tarímbaro, Tzintzuntzan, and the rural portion of the municipality of Morelia.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Michoacán's 10th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureAlberto Alvarado1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro1917Candor Guajardo1917–191827th Congress1918Juan de Dios Avellaneda1918–192028th Congress1920Ignacio Villegas C.1920–192229th CongressIgnacio Villegas C.1922–192430th Congress1924Efraín Pineda1924–192631st Congress1926Efraín Pineda1926–192832nd Congress1928Efraín Pineda1928–193033rd Congress The 10th district was suspended between 1930 and 19791979Genovevo Figueroa Zamudio1979–198251st Congress1982Eulalio Ramos Valladolid1982–198552nd Congress1985Janitzio Mújica Rodríguez Cabo1985–198853rd Congress1988Vicente Luis Coca Álvarez1988–199154th Congress1991Carlos Ávila Figueroa1991–199455th Congress1994Victoria Eugenia Méndez Márquez1994–199756th Congress19971997–200057th Congress2000Salvador López Orduña 2000–200358th Congress2003Pablo Villanueva Ramírez2003–200659th Congress2006José Luis Espinosa Piña2006–200960th Congress2009Laura Suárez González2009–201261st Congress2012Ernesto Núñez Aguilar2012–201562nd Congress2015Georgina Paola Villalpando Barrios2015–201863rd Congress2018Iván Arturo Pérez Negrón Ruiz2018–202164th Congress2021Omar Francisco Gudiño Magaña2021–2024202465th Congress2024David Alejandro Cortés Mendoza2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Michoacán's 10th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 45.98312024Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz Fuerza y Corazón por México44.3221
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