5th federal electoral district of Durango

The 5th federal electoral district of Durango (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 05 de Durango) was a federal electoral district of Mexico. During its most recent existence, from 1977 to 2006, it returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions. ^{[1] [2]}

Suspended in 1930, ^[a] Durango's 5th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under the reforms, Durango's seat allocation rose from four to six. ^[6] It was dissolved by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 2005, when the state's population no longer warranted five districts. ^[7] Thus, the re-established 5th district was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election and elected its last deputy in the 2003 mid-terms.

District territory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Durango	4	6	5	4	4	4
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [8] [9] [10] [11]

1996–2005

In the 1996 scheme, under which Durango had five single-member seats, the 5th district's head town (Spanish : cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations were gathered together and tallied, was the state capital, Victoria de Durango, and it comprised 199 precincts in the south of the municipality of Durango. ^{[12] [13]}

1978–1996

The restored 5th district comprised the southern half of the municipality of Durango, including a part of the state capital, together with the municipalities of Mezquital, Nombre de Dios, Pueblo Nuevo, San Dimas, Súchil and Vicente Guerrero. The state capital served as its head town. ^{[14] [15]}

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

Durango's 5th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916  [ es ]	Fernando Gómez Palacio [16] [17]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
The fifth district was suspended between 1930 and 1977
1979	Gonzalo Salas Rodríguez [18]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Juan Arizmendi Hernández [19]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier [20]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Leodegario Soto Cesaretti [21]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Gabriela Irma Avelar Villegas [22]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	José Roberto Arreola Arreola [23]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Alejandro González Yáñez [24] [b] Santiago Pedro Cortés [26]		1997–1998 1998–2000	57th Congress
2000	Rodolfo Dorador Pérez Gavilán [27]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Pedro Ávila Nevárez [28]		2003–2006	59th Congress

Notes

1. 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"; ^{[3] [4]} as a result, the size of the Chamber of Deputies fell from 281 in the 1928 election to 171 in 1934. ^[5]
2. González Yáñez resigned his seat in March 1998 to contend (unsuccessfully) for the governorship of Durango. He was replaced by his substitute, Pedro Cortés. ^[25]

References

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