7th federal electoral district of Chihuahua

Chihuahua's 7th
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
Chihuahua's 7th district since 2022
Incumbent
Member	Roberto Corral Ordóñez
Party	▌ Labour Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Chihuahua
Head town	Ciudad Cuauhtémoc
Coordinates	28°24′N106°52′W / 28.400°N 106.867°W / 28.400; -106.867
Covers	19 municipalities Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Galeana, Santa Isabel, Gómez Farías, Gran Morelos, Guerrero, Ignacio Zaragoza, Madera, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ocampo, Riva Palacio, Temósachic
PR region	First
Precincts	509
Population	431,078 (2020 Census)

7th district in 2017–2022

7th district in 2005–2017

The 7th federal electoral district of Chihuahua (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 07 de Chihuahua) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua. ^[1]

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 first region. ^{[2] [3]}

Suspended in 1930, ^[a] the 7th district was re-established as part of the 1977 electoral reforms. Under the 1975 districting plan, Chihuahua had only six congressional districts; ^[7] with the 1977 reforms, the number increased to ten. ^[8] The restored 7th district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Jesús Roberto Corral Ordóñez of the Labour Party (PT). ^{[9] [10]}

District territory

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, ^[11] the district is located in the centre-west portion of the state, and comprises 509 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 19 municipalities: ^{[12] [13]}

• Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Galeana, Santa Isabel, Gómez Farías, Gran Morelos, Guerrero, Ignacio Zaragoza, Madera, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ocampo, Riva Palacio and Temósachic.

Its head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. ^[13] The district reported a population of 431,078 in the 2020 Census. ^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Chihuahua	6	10	9	9	9	9
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1] [7] [8] [14]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the 7th district covered a different configuration of municipalities in the centre and west of the state: Bachíniva, Bocoyna, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Chínipas, Santa Isabel, Gómez Farías, Gran Morelos, Guazapares, Guerrero, Madera, Maguarichi, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Ocampo, Riva Palacio, Temósachic and Uruachi. Ciudad Cuauhtémoc served as its head town. ^{[15] [16]}

2005–2017

Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 7th district covered the municipalities of Bachíniva, Buenaventura, Casas Grandes, Cuauhtémoc, Galeana, Gómez Farías, Guerrero, Ignacio Zaragoza, Madera, Matachí, Moris, Namiquipa, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Ocampo, Riva Palacio and Temósachi in the west of the state. The head town was Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. ^{[17] [18]}

1996–2005

Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. Between 1996 and 2005, the 7th district was located in the centre-west portion of the state and comprised mostly municipalities of the Sierra Tarahumara region: Bachíniva, Batopilas, Bocoyna, Carichí, Chínipas, Cuauhtémoc, Cusihuiriachi, Dr. Belisario Domínguez, Gran Morelos, Guazapares, Guerrero, Maguarichi, Moris, Nonoava, Ocampo, Riva Palacio, San Francisco de Borja, Santa Isabel, Satevó, Uruachi and Urique. ^{[19] [18]}

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, Chihuahua's seat allocation rose from six to ten. ^[7] The restored 7th district comprised the southern portion of the state capital, the city of Chihuahua, the rural areas of its surrounding municipality, and the municipalities of Aldama, Aquiles Serdán, Santa Isabel, ^[b] Julimes and Meoqui. ^[21]

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

Chihuahua's 7th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
The 7th district was suspended between 1930 and 1979
1979	Demetrio Bernardo Franco Derma [22]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Juan Manuel Terrazas Sánchez [23]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Jorge Doroteo Zapata [24]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Carlos Barranco Fuentes [25]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Eloy Gómez Pando [26]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Mario de la Torre Hernández  [ es ] [27]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Odórico Vázquez Bernal [28]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Jorge Esteban Sandoval [29]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Jorge Castillo Cabrera [30]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Israel Beltrán Montes [31]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Guadalupe Pérez Domínguez [32]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Kamel Athie Flores [33]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Alex Le Baron González  [ es ] [34]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018 [35]	Eraclio Rodríguez Gómez  [ es ] [36] [c]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021 [37]	Patricia Terrazas Baca  [ es ] [38]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024 [9]	Jesús Roberto Corral Ordóñez [10]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Congressional results

The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1979 to 2021.

2 July 2006 general election: Chihuahua's 7th
Party or Alliance		Candidate		Votes	Percentage
	National Action Party		Jeffrey Jones	36,863	28.10 / 100
	Alliance for Mexico (PRI, PVEM)	Y	Israel Beltrán Montes	56,327	42.93 / 100
	Coalition for the Good of All (PRD, PT, Convergencia)		Víctor Quintana Silveyra	27.782	21.18 / 100
	New Alliance Party		Austreberta Bustamante Grajeda	6,855	3.72 / 100
	Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative		Ramiro Encontrías Ontiveros	1,100	0.84 / 100
N	Unregistered candidates			137	0.10 / 100
N	Spoilt papers			4,113	3.13 / 100
Total				131,195	100 / 100
Source: IFE. [39]

Presidential elections

Chihuahua's 7th district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018 [40]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	46.3930
2024 [41]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	48.2632

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"; ^{[4] [5]} as a result, the size of the Chamber of Deputies fell from 281 in the 1928 election to 171 in 1934. ^[6]
2. The municipality of Santa Isabel was called "General Trías" at the time. ^[20]
3. Rodríguez Gómez switched allegiance from Morena to the PT on 30 June 2020.

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