38th federal electoral district of the Federal District

The 38th federal electoral district of the Federal District (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 38 del Distrito Federal) is a defunct federal electoral district of Mexico. Occupying a portion of what is today Mexico City, it was in existence from 1978 to 1996.

During that time, it returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system, electing its first in the 1979 mid-terms and its last in the 1994 general election. Votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions. ^{[1] [2]}

The 31st to 40th districts were abolished by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in its 1996 redistricting process because the capital's population no longer warranted that number of seats in Congress. ^[3]

District territory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Mexico City (Federal District)	27	40	30	27	24	22
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [4] [5] [3] [6]

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, the Federal District's seat allocation rose from 27 to 40. ^[5] The 38th district covered the whole of the borough of Magdalena Contreras and a portion of Álvaro Obregón. ^[7]

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

Federal District's 38th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1979	Tristán Manuel Canales Najjar  [ es ] [8]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Alejandro Posadas Espinoza [9]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Sócrates Rizzo García [10]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Marcela Lombardo Ortero de Gutiérrez [11]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Amado Treviño Abatte [12]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Ana María Adelina Licona Spínola [13]		1994–1997	56th Congress

References

1. "How Mexico Elects Its Leaders – The Rules". Mexico Solidarity Project. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
2. "Circunscripciones" (PDF). Ayuda 2021. INE . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
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 4 January 2025.
4. "Memoria de la Distritación Nacional 2021–2023" (PDF). INE. p. 220. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
5. González Casanova, Pablo (1993). Las Elecciones en México: evolución y perspectivas (3 ed.). Siglo XXI. p. 219. ISBN   9789682313219 . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
6. "Acuerdo del Consejo General del Instituto Nacional Electoral por el que se aprueba la demarcación territorial de los 300 distritos electorales federales uninominales" (PDF). Repositorio Documental. INE. 15 March 2017. p. 142. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
7. "División del territorio de la República en 300 distritos electorales uninominales para elecciones federales: Distrito Federal". Diario Oficial de la Federación . 29 May 1978. p. 22. Retrieved 4 January 2025. The link contains an exact description of the district's territory.
8. "Legislatura 51" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
9. "Legislatura 52" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
10. "Legislatura 53" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
11. "Legislatura 54" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
12. "Legislatura 55" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.
13. "Legislatura 56" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual. Cámara de Diputados . Retrieved 4 January 2025.

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