8th federal electoral district of Michoacán

The 8th federal electoral district of Michoacán (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 08 de Michoacán) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 11 such districts in the state of Michoacán.^[1]

Michoacán's 8th
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
8th district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Ernesto Núñez Aguilar
Party	▌Ecologist Green Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Michoacán
Head town	Morelia
Coordinates	19°46′N 101°11′W
Covers	Municipality of Morelia (part)
PR region	Fifth
Precincts	169
Population	424,851 (2020 Census)

Michoacán's federal electoral districts since 2023

Michoacán under the 2017–2022 districting scheme

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 fifth region.^[2][3]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Ernesto Núñez Aguilar of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).^[4][5]

District territory

Michoacán lost its 12th district in the 2023 districting process carried out by the National Electoral Institute (INE). Under the new districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,^[6] the 8th district covers 169 precincts (secciones electorales) in the north-west sector of the municipality of Morelia.^[7][a]

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Morelia. The district reported a population of 424,851 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Michoacán	9	13	13	12	12	11
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][8][9][10]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the district's head town was at Morelia and it comprised 130 precincts in the north-west of the municipality of Morelia.^[11][10]

2005–2017

Under the 2005 districting plan, Michoacán lost its 13th district. The 8th district's head town was at Morelia and it covered 145 precincts in the north and west of the municipality.^[12][13]

1996–2005

Under the 1996 districting plan, the district's head town was at Morelia and it covered the northern portion of the municipality.^[14][13]

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 the reforms, Michoacán's allocation rose from 9 to 13.^[8] The 8th district's head town was at Zitácuaro and it comprised nine municipalities in the east of the state:^[15]

• Angangueo, Aporo, Contepec, Epitacio Huerta, Maravatío, Ocampo, Senguio, Tlalpujahua and Zitácuaro.

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

Michoacán's 8th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916 [es]	Pascual Ortiz Rubio[16] Manuel Martínez Solórzano[17]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
1973	Francisco Valdez Zaragoza[18]		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Héctor Terán Torres[19]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Luis Coq Guichard[20]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Ignacio Olvera Quintero[21]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Abimael López Castillo[22]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Hiram Rivera Teja[23]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	José Ascención Orihuela Bárcenas[24]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Fernando Orihuela Carmona[25]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Juan Antonio Prats García[26]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Sergio Acosta Salazar[27]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Ana Lilia Guillén Quiroz[28]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Daniel Chávez García[29][b] Susana Sarahí Carrasco Cárdenas[30]		2006–2009 2009	60th Congress
2009	Alfonso Martínez Alcázar[31][c] Iridia Salazar Blanco[32]		2009–2011 2011–2012	61st Congress
2012	Eligio Cuitláhuac González Farías[33]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Marco Polo Aguirre Chávez [es][34][d] Fernando Castro Ventura[35]		2015–2018 2018	63rd Congress
2018	Ana Lilia Guillén Quiroz[36]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021	Roberto Carlos López García[37]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Ernesto Núñez Aguilar[5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Michoacán's 8th district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[38]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	54.1287
2024[39]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	51.7906

Notes

1. The remainder of the municipality makes up the 10th district.
2. Chávez García resigned his seat on 10 February 2009.
3. Martínez Alcázar resigned his seat on 12 August 2011.
4. Aguirre Chávez resigned his seat on 31 January 2018.