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 third region.[3][4]
District territory
Veracruz lost a congressional district in the National Electoral Institute's 2022 redistricting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections.[5]
The reconfigured 6th district covers 13 municipalities in the Totonaca region of the state:[6]
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of
Papantla de Olarte.[1]
With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 67% of its population, it is classified by the National Electoral Institute (INE) as an indigenous district.[7][b]
Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process.[2] Between 2005 and 2017 the district had its head town at Papantla and it covered 11 municipalities: Coahuitlán, Coxquihui, Coyutla, Chumatlán, Espinal, Filomeno Mata, Gutiérrez Zamora, Mecatlán, Papantla, Tecolutla and Zozocolco.[9]
1996–2005
Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Papantla.[10][11]
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.[12] The 6th district had its head town at Xalapa and it covered the municipalities of Acatlán, Xalapa, Naolinco and Tepetlán.[13]
^Because of demographic change, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms that set the national total at 300.[2]
^The INE deems any local or federal electoral district where Indigenous or Afrodescendent inhabitants number 40% or more of the total to be an indigenous district.[1]
^"Veracruz". División del Territorio de la República en 300 Distritos Electorales Uninominales para Elecciones Federales. Diario Oficial de la Federación. 29 May 1978. p. 39. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
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