The 7th federal electoral district of San Luis Potosí () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which

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is divided for elections to the federal

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and one of seven such districts in the

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. It elects one

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to the lower house of

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for each three-year legislative session by means of the

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system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the second region. Suspended in 1943, the 7th district was re-established as part 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, San Luis Potosí's seat allocation rose from five to seven. The two new districts were first contested in the 1979 legislative election. The current member for the district, elected in the

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, is

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of the

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(Morena).

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the

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(INE), which is to be used for the

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and

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federal elections, the 7th district is in the extreme south-east of the state, covering much of its

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region. It comprises 285

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s () across 13 of the state's municipalities: *

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, Coxcatlán,

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, Matlapa,

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, Tampacán, Tampamolón, Tancanhuitz,

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and

Xilitla Xilitla is a municipality () and town in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí in the Huasteca region of Mexico. The town is located at The municipality has an area of and had a population of 51,498 in 2010 of whom 6,576 lived in town of Xilitl ...

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

. The district reported a population of 379,671 in the 2020 Census. With

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and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 80% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district – the only indigenous federal electoral district in the state.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022 :Between 2017 and 2022, the district had the same configuration as in the 2023 plan. 2005–2017 :Under the 2005 districting plan, the district comprised the same 13 municipalities as in the later plans. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes. 1996–2005 :From 1996 to 2005, the district covered ten municipalities: the same grouping as the later plans but without San Antonio, Tampamolón and Tanlajás. 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, San Luis Potosí's seat allocation rose from five to seven. The re-established seventh district's head town was the city of Tamazunchale and it covered the municipalities of Ciudad Santos, Coxcatlán, Huehuetlán, San Martín Chalchicuautla, Tamazunchale, Tampacán, Tanquián de Escobedo, Villa Terrazas and Xilitla.

Deputies returned to Congress

Presidential elections

Notes

References

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