The 8th federal electoral district of Veracruz () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 19 such districts in the state of Veracruz.
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 third region.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Jorge Alberto Mier Acolt of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections. The reconfigured 8th district covers 309 electoral precincts () across 22 municipalities to the east of the state capital, Xalapa: Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios, Apazapan, Chiconquiaco, Colipa, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Juchique de Ferrer, La Antigua, Landero y Coss, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Paso de Ovejas, Puente Nacional, Tenampa, Tlaltetela, Tonayán, Totutla, Vega de Alatorre, Yecuatla and Úrsulo Galván.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is Las Trancas (a south-eastern suburb of Xalapa). The district reported a population of 439,061 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Veracruz 15 23 23 21 20 19 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
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 8th district comprised 22 municipalities in broadly the same region of the state: Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutierrez Barrios, Apazapan, Chiconquiaco, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Juchique de Ferrer, La Antigua, Landero y Coss, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Puente Nacional, Tenampa, Tepetlán, Tlacotepec de Mejía, Tlaltetela, Tonayán, Totutla, Úrsulo Galván, Xalapa (partial, split with the 10th district) and Yecuatla. Its head town was at Xalapa.
2005–2017 Veracruz's allocation of congressional seats fell to 21 in the 2005 redistricting process. Between 2005 and 2017 the district had its head town at Xalapa. It covered 33 precincts in the municipality of Xalapa and 18 other municipalities in their entirety: The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 districting plans. Acatlán, Actopan, Alto Lucero de Gutiérrez Barrios, Apazapan, Banderilla, Colipa, Chiconquiaco, Emiliano Zapata, Jalcomulco, Jilotepec, Juchique de Ferrer, Miahuatlán, Naolinco, Tepetlán, Tonayán, Úrsulo Galván, Vega de Alatorre and Yecuatla.
1996–2005 Under the 1996 districting plan, which allocated Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Misantla and the district covered 16 municipalities. The link contains a list of the municipalities covered.
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 8th district had its head town at Huatusco and it covered the municipalities of Camarón de Tejeda, Alpatláhuac, Axocuapan, Ayahualulco, Calcahualco, Carrillo Puerto, Comapan, Cosautlán, Coscomatepec, Cotaxtla, Chocamán, Huatusco, Ixhuacán, Ixhuatlán, Paso del Macho, Sochiapa, Soledad de Doblado, Tenampa, Teocelo, Tepatlaxco, Tlacotepec, Tomatlán, Totutla and Zentla.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Veracruz's 8th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ...19731973–197649th Congress19761976–197950th Congress1979Hesiquio Aguilar de la Parra1979–198251st Congress1982José Nassar Tenorio1982–198552nd Congress1985María Aurora Munguía Archundia1985–198853rd Congress1988Fernando Córdoba Lobo1988–199154th Congress1991Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares1991–199455th Congress1994Felipe Amadeo Flores Espinosa1994–199756th Congress1997Félix Hadad Aparicio1997–200057th Congress2000Juan Nicolás Callejas Arroyo2000–200358th Congress2003Gustavo Moreno Ramos2003–200659th Congress2006Marcos Salas Contreras2006–200960th Congress2009Silvio Lagos Galindo2009–201261st Congress2012José Alejandro Montano Guzmán2012–201562nd Congress2015Adolfo Mota Hernández2015–201863rd Congress2018Claudia Tello Espinosa2018–202164th Congress2021Claudia Tello Espinosa2021–202465th Congress2024Jorge Alberto Mier Acolt2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Veracruz's 8th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 49.19472024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 69.0239
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