The 16th federal electoral district of Puebla () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 16 such districts in the state of Puebla.
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 fourth region.
Suspended in 1930, Puebla's 16th was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 2005. It was suspended again in 2017 but was restored in the 2023 redistricting process.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Adolfo Alatriste Cantú of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).
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, Puebla's congressional seat allocation rose from 15 to 16. The restored 16th district is in Puebla's south-east and covers 194 electoral precincts () across 25 of the state's municipalities:
Ajalpan, Altepexi, Atexcal, Caltepec, Coxcatlán, Coyomeapan, Coyotepec, Eloxochitlán, Huitziltepec, Ixcaquixtla, Juan N. Méndez, Molcaxac, San Antonio Cañada, San Gabriel Chilac, San José Miahuatlán, Tepexi de Rodríguez, Tepeyahualco de Cuauhtémoc, Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez, San Sebastián Tlacotepec, Tochtepec, Vicente Guerrero, Xochitlán Todos Santos, Zapotitlán, Zinacatepec and Zoquitlán.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ajalpan. The district reported a population of 417,829 in the 2020 census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 62% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Puebla 10 14 15 16 15 16 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 From 2017 to 2022, Puebla was assigned only 15 congressional seats. The 16th district was in abeyance for that period and therefore did not return deputies to Congress in the 2018 or 2021 elections.
2005–2017 Because of changing population dynamics in the 2000 Census, the 16th district was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in its 2005 districting plan. Its head town was at Ajalpan and it covered 23 municipalities. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered. The link contains maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Puebla's 16th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureGilberto de la Fuente1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ... The 16th district was suspended between 1930 and 20062006Mario Mendoza CortésGuillermina López Balbuena2006–20072007–200960th Congress2009Julieta Octavia Marín Torres2009–201261st Congress2012Lisandro Arístides Campos Córdova2012–201562nd Congress2015Edith Villa Trujillo2015–201863rd Congress The 16th district was suspended between 2018 and 20242024Adolfo Alatriste Cantú2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Puebla's 16th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018District suspended2024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 69.9383
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