21st federal electoral district of Veracruz

The 21st federal electoral district of Veracruz (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 21 de Veracruz) is a defunct federal electoral district of the Mexican state of Veracruz.

During its existence, the 21st district returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each of the 51st to 63rd sessions of Congress. Votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions. ^{[1] [2]}

Created as part of the 1977 political reforms, it was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election and it elected its last deputy in the 2015 mid-terms. ^[3] It was dissolved by the National Electoral Institute (INE) in its 2017 redistricting process process because the state's population no longer warranted 21 districts. ^[4]

District erritory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Veracruz	15	23	23	21	20	19
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [5] [6] [3] [7]

2005–2017

In its final form, the 21st district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations were gathered together and tallied, was the city of Cosoleacaque. It covered 11 municipalities in the state's southernmost Olmeca region: ^{[8] [9]}

• Cosoleacaque, Chinameca, Hueyapan de Ocampo, Jáltipan, Mecayapan, Oluta, Oteapan, Pajapan, Soconusco, Soteapan, Texistepec, Tatahuicapan de Juárez and Zaragoza.

1996–2005

Under the 1996 districting plan, the head town was at Cosoleacaque and the district covered 11 municipalities. ^{[10] [9]}

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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23. ^[6] The newly created 21st district had its head town at the city of Veracruz, and it covered a part of the city and the rural areas of the municipality of Veracruz. ^[11]

Deputies returned to Congress

National parties
Current
	PAN
	PRI
	PT
	PVEM
	MC
	Morena
Defunct or local only
	PLM
	PNR
	PRM
	PNM
	PP
	PPS
	PARM
	PFCRN
	Convergencia
	PANAL
	PSD
	PES
	PES
	PRD

Veracruz's 21st district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1979	Carolina Hernández Pinzón [12]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Amador Toca Cangas [13]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Rafael García Anaya [14]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Américo Javier Flores Nava [15]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Ramón Ferrari Pardiño [16]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Fernando Flores Gómez [17]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Gabriel Alfonso Andrade Rosas [18] [a] Martha Elena Ortiz Guerrero		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	José María Guillén Torres [19]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	José Jesús Vázquez González [20]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Juan Darío Lemarroy Martínez [21]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Antonio Benítez Lucho [22]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Ponciano Vázquez Parissi [23]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Cirilo Vázquez Parissi [24] [b] Victorino Cruz Campos [25] [c]		2015–2018	63rd Congress

Notes

1. Andrade Rosas took a leave of absence from December 1998 to August 1999 and then resigned his seat on 7 September 1999.
2. Vázquez Parissi resigned his seat on 17 February 2017. ^[24]
3. Cruz Campos sat with the PVEM for two weeks in Aug/Sep 2017 before returning to the PRI. ^[25]

References

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2. "Circunscripciones" (PDF). Ayuda 2021. INE . Retrieved 20 July 2024.
3. Baños Martínez, Marco Antonio; Palacios Mora, Celia (2014). "Evolución territorial de los distritos electorales federales uninominales, 1977–2010" [Territorial evolution of the federal uninominal electoral districts, 1977–2010]. Investigaciones Geográficas (84). Mexico City: Instituto de Geografía, UNAM: 92. doi: 10.14350/rig.34063 . Retrieved 17 July 2024.
4. "Descriptivo de la distritación federal: Veracruz, marzo 2017" (PDF). Cartografía. INE. March 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
5. "Memoria de la Distritación Nacional 2021–2023" (PDF). INE. p. 270. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
6. González Casanova, Pablo (1993). Las Elecciones en México: evolución y perspectivas (3 ed.). Siglo XXI. p. 219. ISBN   9789682313219 . Retrieved 11 July 2024.
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8. "Acuerdo del Consejo General del Instituto Federal Electoral por el que se establece la demarcación territorial de los trescientos distritos electorales federales uninominales". Diario Oficial de la Federación . 2 March 2005. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
9. "Distritación de Veracruz: 1996 y 2005" (PDF). IFE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2024. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans.
10. "Acuerdo del Consejo General del Instituto Federal Electoral por el que se establece la demarcación territorial de los trescientos distritos electorales federales uninominales". Diario Oficial de la Federacion . 12 August 1996. p. 103. Retrieved 28 May 2025. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered.
11. "División del territorio de la República en 300 distritos electorales uninominales para elecciones federales: Veracruz". Diario Oficial de la Federación . 29 May 1978. p. 40. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
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