# 17th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico

The 17th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 17 del Estado de México) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 40 such districts in the State of Mexico.
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session 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 fifth region.
Suspended in 1930, the 17th district was re-created by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, the State of Mexico's seat allocation rose from 15 to 34. The new districts were first contended in the 1979 mid-term election.

## District territory

Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 17th district is located in the Greater Mexico City urban area, covering portions of two of the state's 125 municipalities:
* Ecatepec de Morelos (southern) and Nezahualcóyotl (northern).
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ecatepec. In the 2020 Census, the district reported a total population of 365,602.

## Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers :
| | 1972 | 1978 | 1996 | 2005 | 2017 | 2022 |
| State of Mexico | 15 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 40 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 196 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 | 300 |
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Under the previous districting plans enacted by the INE and its predecessors, the 17th district was situated as follows:

### 2017–2022

    A portion of the municipality of Ecatepec.

### 2005–2017

    The eastern part of Ecatepec.

### 1996–2005

    The south-east of Ecatepec.

### 1978–1996

    The municipalities of Isidro Fabela, Ixtlahuaca, Jilotzingo, Jiquipilco, Nicolás Romero, Otzolotepec, Temoaya, Villa del Carbón and Xonacatlán, with its head town at Ciudad Nicolás Romero.

## Deputies returned to Congress

Seventeenth federal electoral district of the State of Mexico :
| Election | Deputy | Term | Legislature |
| 1979 | Fernando Barrera Velázquez | 1979–1982 | 51st Congress |
| 1982 | Apolinar de la Cruz Loreto | 1982–1985 | 52nd Congress |
| 1985 | Abelardo Rigoberto Alanís González | 1985–1988 | 53rd Congress |
| 1988 | Heberto Barrera Velázquez | 1988–1991 | 54th Congress |
| 1991 | Rodrigo Alejandro Nieto Enríquez | 1991–1994 | 55th Congress |
| 1994 | Raúl Lara Chanes | 1994–1997 | 56th Congress |
| 1997 | David Miguel Noyola Martínez | 1997–2000 | 57th Congress |
| 2000 | Rafael Ramírez Agama | 2000–2003 | 58th Congress |
| 2003 | Pablo Bedolla López | 2003–2006 | 59th Congress |
| 2006 | Hugo Eduardo Martínez Padilla | 2006–2009 | 60th Congress |
| 2009 | Josué Cirino Valdés Huezo | 2009–2012 | 61st Congress |
| 2012 | Jessica Salazar Trejo | 2012–2015 | 62nd Congress |
| 2015 | Luis Felipe Vázquez Guerrero | 2015–2018 | 63rd Congress |
| 2018 | María Guadalupe Román Ávila | 2018–2021 | 64th Congress |
| 2021 | María Guadalupe Román Ávila | 2021–2024 | 65th Congress |
| 2024 | Juan Hugo de la Rosa García | 2024–2027 | 66th Congress |