The 5th federal electoral district of Tabasco () 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 Tabasco.
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 third region.
Tabasco's 5th was created as part of the 1977 political reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, Tabasco's seat allocation rose from three to five. The new district returned its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Beatriz Milland Pérez 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, Tabasco's 5th district is in the located along the Gulf of Mexico coastline and covers 194 electoral precincts () across four of the state's municipalities:
Centla, Jalpa de Méndez, Nacajuca and Paraíso.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Paraíso. The district reported a population of 447,988 in the 2020 census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 41% 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 Tabasco 3 5 6 6 6 6 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 From 2017 to 2022, the district had the same configuration as in the 2023 plan.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 plan, the district had the same configuration as in the 2017 and 2023 schemes. The link contains maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1996–2005 Tabasco gained its 6th district in the 1996 redistricting process. The 5th covered the south of the state, comprising the municipalities of Macuspana (head town), Jalapa, Teapa and Tacotalpa.
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, Tabasco's seat allocation rose from three to five. The new 5th district's head town was at Macuspana and it comprised the same four municipalities as in the 1996 scheme.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Tabasco's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1979Hernán Rabelo Wade1979–198251st Congress1982Griselda García Serra1982–198552nd Congress1985Óscar Llergo Heredia1985–198853rd Congress1988Fredi Chable Torrano1988–199154th Congress1991Gladys Esther Guadalupe Cano Conde1991–199455th Congress1994Óscar Cantón Zetina1994–199756th Congress1997Víctor Manuel López Cruz1997–200057th Congress2000Feliciano Calzada Padrón2000–200358th Congress2003Carlos Manuel Rovirosa Ramírez2003–200659th Congress2006Silbestre Álvarez Ramón2006–200960th Congress2009Nicolás Carlos Bellizia Aboaf2009–201261st Congress2012Marcos Rosendo Medina Filigrana2012–201562nd Congress2015Araceli Madrigal Sánchez2015–201863rd Congress2018Laura Patricia Ávalos Magaña2018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Beatriz Milland Pérez2024–202766th Congress
Results The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains results of the congressional elections since 2006.
Presidential elections + Tabasco's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 82.34892024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 82.4282
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