4th federal electoral district of San Luis Potosí
federal electoral district of Mexico
The 4th federal electoral district of San Luis Potosí (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 04 de San Luis Potosí) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state of San Luis Potosí.
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 current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Francisco Adrián Castillo Morales of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
District territory
Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,
the 4th district shares the eastern portion of the state with the 7th district. It covers 333 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 12 of the state's municipalities:
Alaquines, Cárdenas, Ciudad del Maíz, Ciudad Valles, Ébano, Rayón, San Vicente Tancuayalab, Santa Catarina, Tamasopo, Tamuín, Tanquián de Escobedo and El Naranjo.
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is at Ciudad Valles. The district reported a population of 419,880 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes
2017–2022
Between 2017 and 2022, the district was further east within the state. It covered seven municipalities: Ciudad Valles, Ébano, San Vicente Tancuayalab, Tamasopo, Tamuín, Tanquián de Escobedo and El Naranjo.
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