5th federal electoral district of Querétaro

The 5th federal electoral district of Querétaro (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 05 de Querétaro) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of six such districts in the state of Querétaro.^[1]

Querétaro's 5th
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
5th district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Mario Calzada Mercado
Party	▌Institutional Revolutionary Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Querétaro
Head town	Pedro Escobedo
Coordinates	20°30′N 100°08′W
Covers	Pedro Escobedo, Huimilpan, El Marqués
PR region	Fifth
Precincts	73
Population	346,002 (2020 Census)

Querétaro under the 2017–2022 districting plan

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 this district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies; since 2024, those elected from the fifth region.^[2][3]

The 5th district was created as part of the 2017 districting process and has therefore only returned deputies to Congress since the 2018 general election.

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Mario Calzada Mercado of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).^[4][5]

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which assigned Querétaro an additional seat in Congress and is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,^[6] the 5th district covers 73 precincts (secciones electorales) across three of the state's 18 municipalities:^[7][8]

• Pedro Escobedo, Huimilpan and El Marqués.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Pedro Escobedo. The district reported a population of 346,002 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Querétaro	2	3	4	4	5	6
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][9][10][11]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, when the state contained only five federal electoral districts, the 5th covered four municipalities:^[12][11]

• Amealco de Bonfil, Corregidora, Huimilpan and El Marqués.

The head town was at El Pueblito, the seat of the municipality of Corregidora.

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

Querétaro's 5th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
2018[13]	Ana Paola López Birlain [es][14]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[15]	Erika Díaz Villalón[16]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Mario Calzada Mercado[5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Querétaro's 5th district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[17]	Ricardo Anaya Cortés	Por México al Frente	38.8254
2024[18]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	53.3000