The 5th federal electoral district of Querétaro () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of six such districts in the state of Querétaro.
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 this district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies; since 2024, those elected from the fifth region.
The 5th district was created as part of the 2017 districting process and has therefore only returned deputies to Congress since the 2018 general election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Mario Calzada Mercado of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
District territory Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which assigned Querétaro an additional seat in Congress and is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 5th district covers 73 precincts () across three of the state's 18 municipalities: Pedro Escobedo, Huimilpan and El Marqués.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Pedro Escobedo. The district reported a population of 346,002 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Querétaro 2 3 4 4 5 6 Chamber of Deputies 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, when the state contained only five federal electoral districts, the 5th covered four municipalities: Amealco de Bonfil, Corregidora, Huimilpan and El Marqués. The head town was at El Pueblito, the seat of the municipality of Corregidora.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Querétaro's 5th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature20182018–202164th Congress2021Erika Díaz Villalón2021–202465th Congress2024Mario Calzada Mercado2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Querétaro's 5th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Ricardo Anaya Cortés Por México al Frente38.82542024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 53.3000
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