The 20th federal electoral district of Jalisco () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 20 such districts in the state of Jalisco.
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.
Suspended in 1930, the 20th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. It was suspended again in 1996 but restored by the National Electoral Institute (INE) in its 2017 redistricting.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory Under the National Electoral Institute's 2023 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, Jalisco's 20th district is located in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area and comprises 52 electoral precincts () across two of the state's 125 municipalities: A portion of Tonalá (26 precincts) and the whole of El Salto (26 precincts).
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Tonalá. The district reported a population of 400,804 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Jalisco 13 20 19 19 20 20 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 The 20th district was restored in the 2017 redistricting process. Its head town was at Tonalá and it covered 90 precincts across five municipalities in the centre of the state: Acatic, Juanacatlán, El Salto, Tonalá (part) and Zapotlanejo.
1996–2017 Between 1996 and 2017, Jalisco had only 19 congressional seats.
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, Jalisco's seat allocation rose from 13 to 20. The 20th district's head town was at Zapopan and it covered a part of the city, a part of its surrounding municipality, and the whole of the neighbouring municipality of Tala.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Jalisco's 20th district Election Deputy Party Term LegislatureRafael Ochoa1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro1917Ramón Blancarte1917–19181918Ramón Blancarte1918–192028th Congress1920Natalio Espinosa1920–192229th Congress1922–19241924Justo González1924–192631st Congress1926Severiano Lozano1926–192832nd Congress1928Francisco Labastida Izquierdo1928–193033rd Congress The 20th district was suspended between 1930 and 19791979Antonio Ruiz Rosas1979–198251st Congress1982Rafael García Sancho Gómez1982–198552nd Congress1985Constancio Hernández Allende1985–198853rd Congress1988Raúl Octavio Espinoza Martínez1988–199154th Congress1991Jesús Enrique Ramos Flores1991–199455th Congress1994Francisco Ledezma Durán1994–199756th Congress The 20th district was suspended between 1997 and 20182018Ana Priscila González García2018–202164th Congress2021María del Refugio Camarena Jáuregui2021–202465th Congress20242024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Jalisco's 20th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 43.90592024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 54.6822
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