The First Federal Electoral District of Baja California ''(I 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

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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, it is made up of the municipality of Mexicali, with the exception of its extreme northwest (where the state's Third District is located) and its extreme northeast (which corresponds to the Second District). 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 electoral district covered the whole of the municipality of Mexicali, except for a small pocket in the east of the city of Mexicali, which was part of the Second District.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

* L Legislature ** 1976–1979: Ricardo Eguía Valderrama (PRI) * LI Legislature ** 1979–1982: José Luis Andrade Ibarra (PRI) * LII Legislature ** 1982–1985: * LIII Legislature ** 1985–1988: * LIV Legislature ** 1988–1991: Jesús Armando Hernández Montaño (PRI) * LV Legislature ** 1991–1994:

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(PRI) * LVI Legislature ** 1994–1997:

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

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

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(PAN) * LIX Legislature ** 2003–2006:

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(PAN) * LX Legislature ** 2006–2009: Francisco Rueda Gómez (PAN)

References

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