# 5th federal electoral district of Chiapas

The 5th federal electoral district of Chiapas (Distrito electoral federal 05 de Chiapas) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 13 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the third region.

## District territory

Under the 2022 districting plan, which will be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, Chiapas's 5th district covers five municipalities in the central region of the state:
* Chamula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, San Juan Cancuc, Tenejapa and Zinacantán.
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas.
With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 69% of its population, it is classified by the National Electoral Institute (INE) as an indigenous district.

## Previous districting schemes
### 2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, in addition to the five it comprises in the 2022 plan, the district also covered the municipality of San Lucas. The head town was at San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

### 2005–2017

In 2005–2017, the 5th district was located in the Chiapas Highlands north-western portion of the state and covered the municipalities of Amatenango del Valle, Chamula, Huixtán, Mitontic, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Tenejapa, Teopisca and Zinacantán. The head town was at San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

### 1996–2005

Between 1996 and 2005, the district had a slightly different configuration. It covered the following municipalities:
* Chamula, Huixtan, Mitontic, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Tenejapa and Zinacantán, which remained part of the 2005–2017 composition, plus:
* Chalchihuitán, Chenalhó, Larráinzar and Pantelhó.

### 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, Chiapas's seat allocation rose from six to nine. The 5th district had its head town at Tapachula and it covered eight municipalities.

## Deputies returned to Congress

Fifth federal electoral district of Chiapas :
| Election | Deputy | Term | Legislature |
| 1976 | Gonzalo Esponda Zebadúa | 1976–1979 | 50th Congress |
| 1979 | Jaime Coutiño Esquinca | 1979–1982 | 51st Congress |
| 1982 | Faustino Roos Mazo | 1982–1985 | 52nd Congress |
| 1985 | Antonio Melgar Aranda | 1985–1988 | 53rd Congress |
| 1988 | César Ricardo Naumann Escobar | 1988–1991 | 54th Congress |
| 1991 | José Antonio Aguilar Bodegas | 1991–1994 | 55th Congress |
| 1994 | Hildiberto Ochoa Samayos | 1994–1997 | 56th Congress |
| 1997 | Gilberto Velasco Rodríguez | 1997–2000 | 57th Congress |
| 2000 | Nicolás Lorenzo Álvarez Martínez | 2000–2003 | 58th Congress |
| 2003 | Florencio Collazo Gómez | 2003–2006 | 59th Congress |
| 2006 | Jorge Mario Lescieur Talavera | 2006–2009 | 60th Congress |
| 2009 | Sergio Lobato García | 2009–2012 | 61st Congress |
| 2012 | Luis Gómez Gómez | 2012–2015 | 62nd Congress |
| 2015 | María Soledad Sandoval Martínez | 2015–2018 | 63rd Congress |
| 2018 | Clementina Marta Dekker Gómez | 2018–2021 | 64th Congress |
| 2021 | Yeimi Aguilar Cifuentes | 2021–2024 | 65th Congress |
| 2024 | Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán | 2024–2027 | 66th Congress |