4th federal electoral district of Durango

The 4th federal electoral district of Durango (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 04 de Durango) 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 Durango.^[1]

Durango's 4th
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
4th district since 2022
Incumbent
Member	Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado
Party	▌National Action Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Durango
Head town	Victoria de Durango
Coordinates	24°01′N 104°40′W
Covers	Municipality of Durango (part)
PR region	First
Precincts	414
Population	461,881 (2020 Census)

Durango under the 2017–2022 districting plan

The district elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session through the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also contribute to the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.^[2][3]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado of the National Action Party (PAN).^[4][5]

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,^[6] the 4th district covers 414 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) in the mostly urban portion of the municipality of Durango excluded from the 1st district.^[7][8]

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Victoria de Durango. The district reported a population of 461,881 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

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

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

Durango's 4th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916 [es]	Fernando Castaños[12][13]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
1917	Alfonso Breceda		1917–1918	27th Congress
1918	Alfonso Breceda		1918–1920	28th Congress
1920	Rodrigo Gómez		1920–1922	29th Congress
1922 [es]	Rodrigo Gómez		1920–1924	30th Congress
1924	Rodrigo Gómez		1924–1926	31st Congress
1926	Vacant		1926–1928	32nd Congress
1928	Alfonso Cruz		1928–1930	33rd Congress
1930	Vacant		1930–1932	34th Congress
1932	Alejandro Antuna López		1932–1934	35th Congress
1934	Miguel León Tostado		1934–1937	36th Congress
1937	Atanasio Arrieta		1937–1940	37th Congress
1940	Manuel Solórzano Soto		1940–1943	38th Congress
1943	Juan Manuel Tinoco		1943–1946	39th Congress
1946	Eulogio V. Salazar		1946–1949	40th Congress
1949	Armando del Castillo Franco [es]		1949–1952	41st Congress
1952	Braulio Meraz Nevárez		1952–1955	42nd Congress
1955	Pablo Picharra Esparza		1955–1958	43rd Congress
1958	Ezequiel Nevárez Ramírez		1958–1961	44th Congress
1961	José Antonio Ramírez Martínez		1961–1964	45th Congress
1964	Braulio Meraz Nevárez		1964–1967	46th Congress
1967	José Antonio Ramírez Martínez		1967–1970	47th Congress
1970	Jacinto Moreno Villalba		1970–1973	48th Congress
1973	José Mario Rivas Escalante		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	José Ramírez Gamero[14]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Miguel Ángel Fragoso Álvarez[15]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Maximiliano Silerio Esparza[16]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	José Ramón García Soto[17]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	María Albertina Barbosa [es][18]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Benjamín Ávila Guzmán[19]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Ricardo Pacheco Rodríguez[20]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier[21][a] Jesús Gutiérrez Vargas		1997–1998 1998–2000	57th Congress
2000	Gustavo Lugo Espinoza[22]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Jaime Fernández Saracho[23]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Jorge Salum del Palacio[24]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Jorge Herrera Caldera[25][b] Pedro Ávila Nevárez[26]		2009–2010	61st Congress
2012	Jorge Herrera Delgado[27][c] Eduardo Solís Nogueira [es][29]		2012–2014 2014–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Alicia Guadalupe Gamboa [es][30]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018[31]	Hilda Patricia Ortega Nájera[32]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[33]	Gina Campuzano González [es][34]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado[5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Durango's 4th district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[35]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	44.2670
2024[36]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	49.4164

Notes

1. Guerrero Mier resigned his seat in March 1998 to contend (successfully) for the governorship of Durango.
2. Herrera Caldera requested a leave of absence from his seat on 2 February 2010 to contend (successfully) for the governorship of Durango.
3. Herrera Delgado died in office on 24 November 2014. He was replaced by his alternate, Solís Nogueira.^[28]