The 5th federal electoral district of San Luis Potosí () 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 San Luis Potosí.
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 second region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is David Azuara Zúñiga of the National Action Party (PAN).
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 5th district comprises 205 electoral precincts () in the western portion of the municipality of San Luis Potosí.
The city of San Luis Potosí, the state capital, serves as the district's head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied. The district reported a population of 457,904 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 San Luis Potosí 5 7 7 7 7 7 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district comprised 198 precincts in the western portion of the municipality of San Luis Potosí.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting plan, the district covered 198 precincts in the west of the municipality of San Luis Potosí. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1996–2005 From 1996 to 2005, the district covered the north of the municipality of San Luis Potosí, including the northern portion of the state capital.
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, San Luis Potosí's seat allocation rose from five to seven. The fifth district's head town was at Ciudad Valles and it covered the municipalities of Ciudad Valles, Ébano, San Antonio, San Vicente Tancuayalab, Tampamolón, Tamuín and Tanlajás in the east of the state.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ San Luis Potosí's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureDionisio Zavala1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...1979Bonifacio Fernández Padilla1979–198251st Congress1982Eusebio Ordaz Ortiz1982–198552nd Congress1985Alberto Magdaleno Mercado Araiza1985–198853rd Congress1988Fructuoso López Cárdenas1988–199154th Congress1991Antonio Esper Bujaidar1991–199455th Congress1994Fructuoso López Cárdenas1994–199756th Congress1997Javier Algara Cossío1997–200057th Congress2000Beatriz Guadalupe Grande López2000–200358th Congress2003Marco Antonio Gama Basarte2003–200659th Congress2006Beatriz Eugenia García Reyes2006–200960th Congress2009César Octavio Pedroza Gaitán 2009–201261st Congress2012Xavier Azuara Zúñiga2012–201562nd Congress2015María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Aguirre2015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024David Azuara Zúñiga2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + San Luis Potosí's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Ricardo Anaya Cortés Por México al Frente37.49982024Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz Fuerza y Corazón por México 46.1767
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