The First Federal Electoral District of Aguascalientes ''(I Distrito Electoral Federal de Aguascalientes)'' is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which

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is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal

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and one of three such districts in the state of

Aguascalientes Aguascalientes (; ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. At 22°N and ...

. It elects one deputy to the lower house of

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for each three-year legislative period, by means of the

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system.

District territory

Under the 2005 redistricting process, the First District of Aguascalientes is made up of the

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of Cosío, Rincón de Romos,

Tepezalá Tepezalá is a municipality and town in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The town of Tepezalá serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Tepezalá. Tepezala is located on the foothills of the eastern mountains of the ...

Asientos Asientos is a municipality in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at . The town of Real de Asientos serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Asientos. Real de Asientos was declared a ''Pueblo Mágico'' by the M ...

Pabellón de Arteaga Pabellón de Arteaga is a city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at in the central part of the state. The city serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of Pabellón de Arteaga. As of 2010, the city had a total population o ...

, San José de Gracia, Jesús María,

San Francisco de los Romo San Francisco de los Romo is a municipality and Settlement classification in Mexico, city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The city of San Francisco de los Romo serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipalities of Mexico, mun ...

Calvillo Calvillo () is a city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. The town serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Calvillo. Calvillo is the second most populated city in the state, surpassed in importance only by the capital ...

, and El Llano. The district's head town ''(cabecera distrital)'', where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of

Jesús María, Aguascalientes Jesús María is a city in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. It stands at and serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Jesús María. As of 2010, the city of Jesús María had a population of 43,012, making it the seco ...

Previous districting schemes

1996–2005 district

The electoral district was composed of the same municipalities under the 1996–2005 districting scheme.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

References

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