The 11th federal electoral district of Veracruz () 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 19 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 third region. 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

Veracruz lost a congressional district in 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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elections. The reconfigured 11th district comprises 285

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s () across five municipalities in the

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in the south-east corner of the state: * Agua Dulce,

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, Ixhuatlán,

Moloacán Moloacán is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located in the south-east zone of the state, about from the state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of . It is located at . Geography The municipality of Moloacán is delimited t ...

and

Nanchital Nanchital is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is about 438 km from Xalapa, the state capital. It has an area of 63.99 km2. It is at . Geography The municipality of Nanchital is delimited to the north by Coatzacoalcos to the so ...

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

. The district reported a population of 416,647 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms. 2017–2022 :Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 11th district still had its head town at Coatzacoalcos but comprised only four of the five 2022–2030 municipalities:

was assigned to the 20th district. 2005–2017 :Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the 11th district had its head town at

and it comprised the municipalities of Coatzacoalcos, Nanchital and Agua Dulce. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans. 1996–2005 :Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Coatepec in the state's central mountain region and the district covered 10 municipalities. 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, Veracruz's seat allocation rose from 15 to 23. The 11th district had its head town at

and it covered a part of that city.

Deputies returned to Congress

Presidential elections

Notes

References

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