The 11th federal electoral district of Nuevo León () is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 14 such districts in the state of Nuevo León.
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 second region.
The 11th district was created by the 1977 electoral reforms and was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election.
of the National Action Party (PAN) was re-elected for the district in the 2024 general election, but requested an indefinite leave of absence from his congressional duties on 2 April 2025. He was replaced by his daughter and alternate, Samantha Margarita Garza de la Garza.
District territory In its 2023 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the National Electoral Institute (INE) increased Nuevo León's congressional seat allocation from 12 to 14. The reconfigured 11th district is in the Monterrey metropolitan area and covers 222 electoral precincts () in the municipality of Guadalupe.
Its head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Guadalupe. The district reported a population of 417,573 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Nuevo León 7 11 11 12 12 14 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 Between 2017 and 2022, the district comprised 200 precincts in the municipality of Guadalupe. The 8th district covered the remainder of the municipality.
2005–2017 Under the 2005 districting plan, the district covered 122 precincts in the south of the municipality of Guadalupe, with the northern sector assigned to the 8th district. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
1996–2005 From 1996 to 2005, the district covered 169 precincts in the south of the municipality of Guadalupe, with the northern sector assigned to the 8th district.
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, Nuevo León's seat allocation rose from 7 to 11. The newly created 11th district's head town was at Santa Catarina and it covered the municipalities of Allende, Cadereyta Jiménez, Montemorelos, Rayones, Santa Catarina and Santiago.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Nuevo León's 11th district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1979Armando Thomae Serna1979–198251st Congress1982Guillermo Garza Luna1982–198552nd Congress1985Gloria Josefina Mendiola Ochoa1985–198853rd Congress19881988–199154th Congress1991Andrés Silva Alvarado1991–199455th Congress1994Néstor Molina Martínez1994–199756th Congress1997Américo Alejandro Ramírez Rodríguez1997–200057th Congress2000Juan Manuel Duarte Dávila2000–200358th Congress2003Alfonso Rodríguez Ochoa2003–200659th Congress2006Juan Francisco Rivera Bedoya2006–200960th Congress2009Cristina Díaz Salazar 2009–201261st Congress2012Héctor García García2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress2018Ernesto Alfonso Robledo LealRafael Alejandro Serna Vega2018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Samantha Margarita Garza de la Garza2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Nuevo León's 11th district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 34.13362024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 43.5463
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