1st federal electoral district of Zacatecas

The 1st federal electoral district of Zacatecas (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 01 de Zacatecas) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of four such districts in the state of Zacatecas.^[1]

Zacatecas's 1st
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
1st district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Soledad Luévano Cantú [es]
Party	▌Morena
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Zacatecas
Head town	Fresnillo
Coordinates	23°10′N 102°52′W
Covers	Chalchihuites, Fresnillo, Jiménez del Teul, Juan Aldama, Miguel Auza, Saín Alto, Sombrerete, Valparaíso
PR region	Second
Precincts	465
Population	416,468 (2020 Census)

It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period, 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 second region.^[2][3]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Soledad Luévano Cantú [es] of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).^[4][5]

District territory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Zacatecas	4	5	5	4	4	4
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][6][7][8]

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,^[9] the 1st district of Zacatecas covers 465 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across eight municipalities in the western portion of the state:^[10]

• Chalchihuites, Fresnillo, Jiménez del Teul, Juan Aldama, Miguel Auza, Saín Alto, Sombrerete and Valparaíso.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Fresnillo. The district reported a population of 416,468 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

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

Zacatecas's 1st district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1961	Alfonso Méndez Barraza[11]		1961–1964	45th Congress
1964	Aurora Navia Millán [es][12]		1964–1967	46th Congress
1967	Calixto Medina Medina[13]		1967–1970	47th Congress
1970	Raúl Rodríguez Santoyo[14]		1970–1973	48th Congress
1973	Luis Arturo Contreras Serrano[15]		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Gustavo Salinas Íñiguez[16]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Arturo Romo Gutiérrez [es][17]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Genaro Borrego Estrada[18]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Yrene Ramos Dávila[19]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Julián Ibargüengoytia Cabral[20]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Marco Antonio Olvera Acevedo [es][21]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Yrene Ramos Dávila[22]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	José Eulogio Bonilla Robles[23]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Alfonso Elías Cardona[24]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Guillermo Huízar Carranza[25]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Susana Monreal Ávila[26]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Gerardo Leyva Hernández[27]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Adolfo Bonilla Gómez[28]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Benjamín Medrano Quezada[29][a] José Luis Velázquez González[30]		2015–2018 2018	63rd Congress
2018	Mirna Zabeida Maldonado Tapia[31]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021	Bennelly Hernández Ruedas[32]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Soledad Luévano Cantú [es][5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Zacatecas's 1st district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[33]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	50.9438
2024[34]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	48.4922

Notes

1. Medrano Quezada took a leave of absence from his seat from 30 March 2018 to 2 July 2018.