10th federal electoral district of Michoacán
federal electoral district of Mexico
The 10th federal electoral district of Michoacán (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 10 de Michoacán) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 11 such districts in the state of Michoacán.
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 fifth region.
Suspended in 1930,
the 10th district was re-established by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under the reforms, Michoacán's allocation rose from 9 to 13. The restored tenth district elected its first deputy in the 1979 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is David Alejandro Cortés Mendoza of the National Action Party (PAN).
District territory
Michoacán lost its 12th district in the 2023 districting process carried out by the National Electoral Institute (INE). Under the new districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,
the 10th district covers 208 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) in the south-east sector of the municipality of Morelia.
The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Morelia.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6169031. Authority coordinates are 19.700, -101.183. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 1977, 1979 and 2024.
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