Biology:5th federal electoral district of Zacatecas

Short description: Defunct federal Electoral District of Mexico

Zacatecas under the 1996–2005 districting plan. The 5th district is shown in red.

The 5th federal electoral district of Zacatecas (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 05 de Zacatecas) was a federal electoral district of the Mexican state of Zacatecas from 1977 to 2006.

During its existence, the 5th district returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each of the 51st to 59th Congresses. Votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions.

Suspended in 1930, it was re-established as part of the 1977 political reforms and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election. After electing its final deputy in the 2003 mid-terms, it was dissolved in the Federal Electoral Institute's 2005 redistricting process because the state's population no longer warranted five districts.

District territory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Zacatecas	4	5	5	4	4	4
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources:

1996–2005

In its final form, the district comprised the municipalities of Apozol, Apulco, Atolinga, Benito Juárez, El Plateado de Joaquín Amaro, Huanusco, Jalpa, Juchipila, Mezquital del Oro, Momax, Monte Escobedo, Moyahua de Estrada, Nochistlán de Mejía, Susticacan, Tabasco, Tepechitlán, Tepetongo, Teúl de González Ortega, Tlaltenango de Sánchez Román, Trinidad García de la Cadena and Villanueva. Its head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations were gathered together and tallied, was the city of Juchipila in the extreme south of the state.

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, Zacatecas's district allocation rose from four to five. The restored 5th district had its head town at Guadalupe and it covered 15 municipalities.

Deputies returned to Congress

Zacatecas's 5th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
The 5th district was suspended between 1930 and 1979
1979	Aurora Navia Millán (es)		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Ana María Maldonado Pineda		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	José Luis Galaviz Cabral		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	José Manuel Ríos Núñez		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	José Escobedo Domínguez		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Pedro López y Macías		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Leobardo Casanova Magallanes		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Silverio López Magallanes		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Antonio Mejía Haro		2003–2006	59th Congress

References

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