Eleventh Federal Electoral District of Chiapas

The Eleventh Federal Electoral District of Chiapas (XI Distrito Electoral Federal de Chiapas) 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 12 such districts in the state of Chiapas.

District Chis-XI shaded blue

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

The Eleventh District of Chiapas is in the south of the state, covering a portion of the Soconusco region and the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands. It comprises the municipalities of Amatenango de la Frontera, Bejucal de Ocampo, Cacahoatán, El Porvenir, Huehuetán, Huixtla, La Grandeza, Mazapa de Madero, Mazatán, Motozintla, Siltepec, Tuzantán, Unión Juárez and the extreme north of the municipality of Tapachula.[1]

The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Huixtla.

Previous districting schemes

1996–2005 district

Between 1996 and 2005, the Eleventh District covered only the municipalities of the southern Soconusco:

The Eleventh District of Chiapas was created in 1996. Between 1979 and 1996, Chiapas only had nine federal electoral districts. The Eleventh District elected its first deputy, to the 57th Congress, in 1997.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district
Mexico Parties
PAN
PRI
PRD
PT
PVEM
MC
PANAL
PSD

References and notes
  1. Instituto Federal Electoral. "Condensado de Chiapas" (PDF). Retrieved 10 November 2008.
  2. Instituto Federal Electoral. "Distritación de 1996 de Chiapas" (PDF). Retrieved 10 November 2008.

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