The Second Federal Electoral District of Baja California ''(II Distrito Electoral Federal de Baja California)'' is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which

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is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of eight such districts in the

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. 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, Baja California's Second District is made of the northeast portion of the municipality of Mexicali, including the eastern section of the homonymous city and other cities in the Mexicali Valley such as

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

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Previous districting schemes

1996–2005 district

Between 1996 and 2005, this district corresponded to the western portion of the city of Mexicali and was, at that time, the smallest of the state's electoral districts in terms of geographical area.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

* L Legislature ** 1976–1979: Alfonso Ballesteros Pelayo (PRI) * LI Legislature ** 1979–1982: Juan Villalpando Cuevas (PRI) * LII Legislature ** 1982–1985: * LIII Legislature ** 1985–1988: * LIV Legislature ** 1988–1991: Bernardo Sánchez Ríos (PRI) * LV Legislature ** 1991–1994: José González Reyes (PAN) * LVI Legislature ** 1994–1997:

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(PRI) * LVII Legislature ** 1997–2000:

José Ricardo Fernández Candia José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(PAN) * LVIII Legislature ** 2000–2003:

Alfonso Sánchez Rodríguez Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsula. ...

(PAN) * LIX Legislature ** 2003–2006:

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(PAN) * LX Legislature ** 2006–2009:

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(PAN)

References

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