First Federal Electoral District of Colima

The First Federal Electoral District of Colima (I Distrito Electoral Federal de Colima) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of two such districts in the state of Colima.

District Col-I shaded blue

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.

District territory

Under the 2005 districting scheme, the First District of Colima covers the municipalities in the north and east part of the state: Colima, Comala, Coquimatlán, Cuauhtémoc, Ixtlahuacán and Villa de Álvarez.[1]

The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the state capital, the city of Colima.

Previous districting schemes

1996–2005 district

Between 1996 and 2005, the district had the same composition as at present, with the exception of Ixtlahuacán, which belonged to the Second District[2]

Deputies returned to Congress from this district
Parties
PAN
PRI
PRD
PT
PVEM
MC
PANAL
PSD

References
  1. Instituto Federal Electoral. "Condensado del estado de Colima" (PDF). Retrieved 11 November 2008.
  2. Instituto Federal Electoral. "Distritación 1996 del estado de Colima" (PDF). Retrieved 11 November 2008.

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