16th federal electoral district of Puebla
Federal electoral district of Mexico
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The 16th federal electoral district of Puebla (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 16 de Puebla) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 16 such districts in the state of Puebla.[1]
| Puebla's 16th | |
|---|---|
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Member | Adolfo Alatriste Cantú |
| Party | âEcologist Green Party |
| Congress | 66th (2024â2027) |
| District | |
| State | Puebla |
| Head town | Ajalpan |
| Coordinates | 18°37â²N 97°24â²W |
| Covers | 25 municipalities
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| PR region | Fourth |
| Precincts | 194 |
| Population | 417,829 (2020 Census) |
| Indigenous | Yes (62%) |
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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]
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Adolfo Alatriste Cantú of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).[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, 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]
- Ajalpan, Altepexi, Atexcal, Caltepec, Coxcatlán, Coyomeapan, Coyotepec, Eloxochitlán, Huitziltepec, Ixcaquixtla, Juan N. Méndez, Molcaxac, San Antonio Cañada, San Gabriel Chilac, San José Miahuatlán, Tepexi de RodrÃguez, Tepeyahualco de Cuauhtémoc, Tlacotepec de Benito Juárez, San Sebastián Tlacotepec, Tochtepec, Vicente Guerrero, Xochitlán Todos Santos, Zapotitlán, Zinacatepec and Zoquitlán.
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]
Previous districting schemes
| 1974 | 1978 | 1996 | 2005 | 2017 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puebla | 10 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 16 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 196 | 300 | ||||
| Sources: [1][13][7][14] | ||||||
2017â2022
- 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]
2005â2017
- 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]
Deputies returned to Congress
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| Election | Deputy | Party | Term | Legislature | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | Gilberto de la Fuente[18][19] | 1916â1917 | Constituent Congress of Querétaro | ||
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| The 16th district was suspended between 1930 and 2006 | |||||
| 2006 | Mario Mendoza Cortés[20][c] Guillermina López Balbuena[22] |
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2006â2007 2007â2009 |
60th Congress | |
| 2009 | Julieta Octavia MarÃn Torres[23] | |
2009â2012 | 61st Congress | |
| 2012 | Lisandro ArÃstides Campos Córdova[24] | |
2012â2015 | 62nd Congress | |
| 2015 | Edith Villa Trujillo[25] | |
2015â2018 | 63rd Congress | |
| The 16th district was suspended between 2018 and 2024 | |||||
| 2024[9] | Adolfo Alatriste Cantú[10] |  |
2024â2027 | 66th Congress | |
Presidential elections
| Election | District won by | Party or coalition | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | District suspended | |||
| 2024[26] | Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo |   Sigamos Haciendo Historia |
69.9383 | |
Notes
- 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]