The 5th federal electoral district of Sinaloa () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of Sinaloa.
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 first region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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 fifth district comprises 373 electoral precincts () in the urban core of the municipality of Culiacán.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, Culiacán Rosales. The district reported a population of 445,024 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Sinaloa 5 9 8 8 7 7 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 Under the 2017 plan, the 5th district comprised 359 precincts in the urban core of the municipality of Culiacán, with the state capital serving as the head town.
1996–2017 Under both the 1996 and 2005 plans – albeit with slight adjustments to the dividing line with the 7th district – the 5th district comprised the northern portion of the municipality of Culiacán. The state capital served as the head town. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
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, Sinaloa's seat allocation rose from five to nine. The 5th district covered parts of the port city of Mazatlán and of its surrounding municipality, together with the municipalities of Cosalá, Elota and San Ignacio. The link contains an exact description of the territory covered.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Sinaloa's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureEmiliano C. García1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1979Palemón Bojórquez Atondo1979–198251st Congress19821982–198552nd Congress19851985–198853rd Congress1988Martín Gavica Garduño1988–199154th Congress1991Jesús Arnoldo Millán Trujillo1991–199455th Congress1994Jorge Abel López Sánchez1994–199756th Congress1997Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero RamosMartha Sofía Tamayo Morales1997–19981998–200057th Congress2000Aarón Irízar López2000–200358th Congress2003Guadalupe de Jesús Vizcarra CalderónIrma Guadalupe Moreno Ovalles2003–20042005–200659th Congress2006Eduardo Ortiz Hernández2006–200960th Congress2009Aarón Irízar López2009–201261st Congress2012Jesús Antonio Valdés Palazuelos2012–201562nd Congress2015Manuel Jesús Clouthier CarrilloMaría del Rocío Zazueta Osuna2015–20172017–201863rd Congress2018 2018–202164th Congress2021 2021–202465th Congress2024 2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Sinaloa's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 69.84302024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 59.8161
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