9th federal electoral district of Veracruz

The 9th federal electoral district of Veracruz (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 09 de Veracruz) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 19 such districts in the state of Veracruz.^[1]

Veracruz's 9th
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
9th district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Adrián González Naveda
Party	▌Labour Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Veracruz
Head town	Coatepec
Coordinates	19°27′N 96°57′W
Covers	18 municipalities Acajete, Ayahualulco, Banderilla, Coacoatzintla, Coatepec, Cosautlán de Carvajal, Ixhuacán de los Reyes, Jilotepec, Las Minas, Las Vigas de Ramírez, Perote, Rafael Lucio, Tatatila, Teocelo, Tlacolulan, Tlalnelhuayocan, Villa Aldama, Xico
PR region	Third
Precincts	193
Population	428,556 (2020 Census)

Veracruz 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 the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the third region.^[2][3]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Adrián González Naveda. Originally elected for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), he switched allegiance to the Labour Party (PT) on 19 September 2024.^[4][5][6]

District territory

Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections.^[7] The reconfigured 9th district comprises 193 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 18 municipalities surrounding the state capital, Xalapa, to the west:^[8][9]

• Acajete, Ayahualulco, Banderilla, Coacoatzintla, Coatepec, Cosautlán de Carvajal, Ixhuacán de los Reyes, Jilotepec, Las Minas, Las Vigas de Ramírez, Perote, Rafael Lucio, Tatatila, Teocelo, Tlacolulan, Tlalnelhuayocan, Villa Aldama and Xico.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Coatepec. The district reported a population of 428,556 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Veracruz	15	23	23	21	20	19
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][10][11][12]

Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms.^[11]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 9th district comprised 16 municipalities in the same region of the state: the same group as in the 2022 plan but without Las Minas and Villa Aldama, both of which were assigned to the 7th district. Its head town was at Coatepec.^[13][12]

2005–2017

Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process.^[11] Between 2005 and 2017 the district had its head town at Coatepec and it covered 17 municipalities:^[14][15]

• Acajete, Altotonga, Ayahualulco, Coacoatzintla, Coatepec, Cosautlán de Carvajal, Ixhuacán de los Reyes, Las Minas, Perote, Rafael Lucio, Las Vigas de Ramírez, Tatatila, Teocelo, Tlacolulan, Tlalnelhuayocan, Villa Aldama and Xico.

1996–2005

Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Perote and the district covered 16 municipalities.^[16][15]

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.^[10] The 9th district had its head town at Orizaba and it covered the municipalities of Aquila, Atzacán, Huiloapan, Ixhuatlancillo, Maltrata, Mariano Escobedo, Nogales, Orizaba, La Perla, Rafael Delgado and Río Blanco.^[17]

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

Veracruz's 9th district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916 [es]	Alfredo Solares[18][19]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
1973	Rogelio García González[20]		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Mario Martínez Dector[21]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Miguel Castro Elías [es][22]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Daniel Sierra Rivera [es][23]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Sergio Roa Fernández[24]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Alberto Andrade Rodríguez[25]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Isaías Álvaro Rodríguez Vivas[26]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Marcelo Ramírez Ramírez[27]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Irma Chedraui Obeso[28]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	José Francisco Yunes Zorrilla[29]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Ernesto Alarcón Trujillo[30]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Adolfo Mota Hernández[31]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	José Francisco Yunes Zorrilla[32]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Fernando Charleston Hernández[33]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Noemí Guzmán Lagunes[34]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018[35]	Carmen Mora García[36]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[37]	José Francisco Yunes Zorrilla[38][a] Norma Graciela Treviño Badillo[40]		2021–2023 2023–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Adrián González Naveda[5][b]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Veracruz's 9th district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[41]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	48.1406
2024[42]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	63.8449

Notes

1. Yunes Zorrilla resigned his seat on 12 December 2023 to contend (unsuccessfully) for the governorship of Veracruz.^[39]
2. Originally elected for Morena, he switched allegiance to the PT on 19 September 2024.^[6]