The First Federal Electoral District of Quintana Roo ''(I Distrito Electoral Federal de Quintana Roo)'' 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

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Quintana Roo Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...

. 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 districting scheme, Quintana Roo's First District covers the municipalities of

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Isla Mujeres Isla Mujeres (, Spanish language, Spanish for "Women Island" (formally “Isla de Mujeres”) is an island where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet, about off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is ap ...

Lázaro Cárdenas Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Born in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, to a working-class family, Cárdenas joined the M ...

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Tulum Tulum (, yua, Tulu'um) is the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan walled city which served as a major port for Coba, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The ruins are situated on cliffs along the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Caribb ...

and non-urban area of the municipality of Benito Juárez (i.e., excluding the city and resort of

Cancún Cancún ( ), often Cancun in English (without the accent; or ) is a city in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat ...

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

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Previous districting schemes

1996–2005 district

Between 1996 and 2005, the First District's territory was the same as at present, except that in included the entirety of

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, including the city and resort of

. Cancún also served as the district's head town for vote-collecting purposes.

Prior to 1975

Quintana Roo was admitted to the union on 8 October 1975. Prior to that, as a federal territory, it was assigned only one seat in the Chamber of Deputies: for the First District. The Second District was created upon statehood in 1975, halving the territory of the First District.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

* XXXVIII Legislature **1940–1943: Raymundo Sánchez Azueta (PRI) * XXXIX Legislature **1943–1946: * XL Legislature **1946–1949: Manuel Pérez Ávila (PRI) * XLI Legislature **1949–1952: Abel Pavía González (PRI) * XLIV Legislature **1958–1961: Félix Morel Peyrefitte (PRI) * XLV Legislature **1961–1964: Delio Paz Ángeles (PRI) * XLVI Legislature **1964–1967:

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(PRI) * XLVII Legislature **1967–1970: Eliezer Castro Souza (PRI) * XLVIII Legislature **1970–1973: Hernán Pastrana Pastrana (PRI) * XLIX Legislature **1973–1975: Jesús Martínez Ross (PRI) **1975–1976: Sebastián Uc Yam (PRI) * L Legislature **1976–1979: Carlos Gómez Barrera (PRI) * LI Legislature **1979–1980:

Pedro Joaquín Coldwell Pedro Joaquín Coldwell (born August 5, 1950 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Personal life and education Joaquín Coldwell studied law at the Universidad Iberoamer ...

(PRI) **1980–1982: Salvador Ramos Bustamante (PRI) * LII Legislature **1982–1985: Sara Muza Simón (PRI) * LIII Legislature **1985–1988: María Cristina Sangri Aguilar (PRI) * LIV Legislature **1988–1991: Elina Elfi Coral Castilla (PRI) * LV Legislature **1991–1994: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz (PRI) * LVI Legislature **1994–1997: Sara Muza Simón (PRI) * LVII Legislature **1997–2000:

Addy Joaquín Coldwell Addy Cecilia Joaquín Coldwell (born 24 August 1939) is a Mexican politician from Cozumel, Quintana Roo. Her brother Pedro Joaquín Coldwell is a former Governor of Quintana Roo. During her brother's governorship she served as president of the ...

(PRI) * LVIII Legislature **2000–2001: Juan Ignacio García Zalvidea (PAN) **2001–2003: Alicia Ricalde Magaña (PAN) * LIX Legislature **2003–2004:

Félix González Canto Félix Arturo González Canto (born 23 August 1968) is a Mexican politician and economist, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From 2005 until 2011 he was the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. He has previously hel ...

(PRI) **2004–2006: María Concepción Fajardo Muñoz (PRI) * LX Legislature **2006–2007: Sara Latife Ruiz Chávez (PRI) **2007: Juan Carlos González Hernández (PRI) **2007–2009: Sara Latife Ruiz Chávez (PRI) Ruiz Chávez requested a leave of absence from Congress to compete for the position of General Secretary of the PRI; her bid was unsuccessful and she returned to her seat in the Chamber.

References and notes

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