The 2nd federal electoral district of Baja California Sur () 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 two 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 first region. The district was created in 1974 when Baja California Sur acquired statehood and was first contended in the 1976 general election. The current member for the district, elected in the

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, is Luis Armando Díaz of the Labour Party (PT).

District territory

Under the

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's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the

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and

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federal elections, the second district comprises the 164

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s () that make up the municipality of

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

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. The district reported a population of 351,100 in the 2020 Census.

Previous districting schemes

2017–2022
:From 2017 to 2022, the district comprised the municipality of Los Cabos and the southern portion of the municipality of La Paz. 2005–2017
:Between 2005 and 2017 the district covered the municipality of Los Cabos and the easternmost third of the municipality of La Paz. The district's head town was the state capital,

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Deputies returned to Congress

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