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 fourth region.[2][3]
Suspended in 1930,[a] Puebla's 16th was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 2005.[7] It was suspended again in 2017 but was restored in the 2023 redistricting process.[8]
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, Puebla's congressional seat allocation rose from 15 to 16.[8] The restored 16th district is in Puebla's south-east and covers 194 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 25 of the state's municipalities:[11][12]
The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ajalpan. The district reported a population of 417,829 in the 2020 Census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 62% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district.[1][b]
From 2017 to 2022, Puebla was assigned only 15 congressional seats. The 16th district was in abeyance for that period and therefore did not return deputies to Congress in the 2018 or 2021 elections.[15][14]
2005–2017
Because of changing population dynamics in the 2000 Census, the 16th district was re-established by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in its 2005 districting plan. Its head town was at Ajalpan and it covered 23 municipalities.[16][17]
↑ An amendment to Article 52 of the Constitution in 1928 changed the original provision of "one deputy per 60,000 inhabitants" to "one deputy per 100,000";[4][5] as a result, the size of the Chamber of Deputies fell from 281 in the 1928 election to 171 in 1934.[6]
↑ Total inhabitants, not voters. The INE deems any local or federal electoral district where Indigenous or Afrodescendent inhabitants number 40% or more of the population to be an indigenous district.[1]
↑ Mendoza Cortés was killed in a traffic accident on 26 September 2007.[21] He was replaced for the remainder of his term by his alternate, López Balbuena.
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