Ninth Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua
The Ninth Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua (IX Distrito Electoral Federal de Chihuahua) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post system.
District territory
Under the 2005 districting scheme, Chihuahua's Ninth District is in the south-west portion of the state and covers the municipalities of Balleza, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichi, Chínipas, Cusihuiriachi, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Gran Morelos, Guadalupe y Calvo, Guazapares, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Maguarichi, Matamoros, Morelos, Nonoava, Rosario, San Francisco de Borja, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, Santa Isabel, Satevó, El Tule, Urique, Uruachi and Valle de Zaragoza.[1]
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Parral.
Previous districting schemes
1996–2005 district
Between 1996 and 2005, the Ninth District was located, as now, in the south of the state and covered the municipalities of Allende, Balleza, Coronado, Guadalupe y Calvo, Hidalgo del Parral, Huejotitán, Jiménez, López, Matamoros, Rosario, San Francisco del Oro, Santa Bárbara, El Tule and Valle de Zaragoza. It its head town was the city of Parral.[2]
1979–1996 district
Between 1979 and 1996, the Ninth District was located in the north-west of the state and its head town was the city of Nuevo Casas Grandes.
Deputies returned to Congress from this district
 Parties | |
|---|---|
.svg.png){kind=small} | PAN |
.svg.png){kind=small} | PRI |
.svg.png){kind=logo} | PRD |
.svg.png){kind=small} | PT |
.svg.png){kind=small} | PVEM |
 | MC |
.svg.png){kind=small} | PANAL |
| PSD | |
- LI Legislature
- 1979–1982: Rebeca Anchondo Fernández (PRI)
- LII Legislature
- 1982–1985: Servando Portillo Díaz (PRI)
- LIII Legislature
- 1985–1988: Fernando Abarca Fernández (PRI)
- LIV Legislature
- 1988–1991: Rebeca Anchondo Fernández (PRI)
- LV Legislature
- 1991–1994: Luis Carlos Rentería Torres (PRI)
- LVI Legislature
- 1994–1997: Sergio Prieto Gamboa (PRI)
- LVII Legislature
- 1997–2000: Jesús José Villalobos Sáenz (PRI)
- LVIII Legislature
- 2000–2003: Manuel Payán Nova (PRI)
- LIX Legislature
- 2003–2006: Jesús Aguilar Bueno (Ind.)[3]
- LX Legislature
- 2006–2009: César Duarte Jáquez (PRI)
References and notes
- ↑ Instituto Federal Electoral. "Condensado de Chihuahua" (PDF). Retrieved 9 November 2008.
- ↑ Instituto Federal Electoral. "Distritación de 1996 de Chihuahua" (PDF). Retrieved 9 November 2008.
- ↑ Aguilar Bueno was originally elected for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional but broke with the party towards the end of 59th Congress, along with other deputies with ties to the teaching profession affiliated with Elba Esther Gordillo, following her split with the PRI leadership.