The Sixth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila (VI Distrito Electoral Federal de Coahuila) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts

Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico

The Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico are the 300 constituencies or electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of federal elections. Each district returns one Federal Deputy, who sits in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Federal Congress...

 into which Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of seven such districts in the state

States of Mexico

The United Mexican States is a federal republic formed by 32 federal entities .According to the Constitution of 1917, the states of the federation are free and sovereign. Each state has their own congress and constitution, while the Federal District has only limited autonomy with a local Congress...

 of Coahuila

Coahuila

Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico...

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It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress

Congress of Mexico

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 for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post

Plurality voting system

The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...

 system.

District territory

Under the 2005 districting scheme, Coahuila's Sixth District covers the northern half of the municipality of Torreón

Torreón (municipality)

Torreón is a one of the 38 municipalities of Coahuila, in north-eastern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Torreón. The municipality covers an area of 1947.7 km².As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 577,477....

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The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Torreón

Torreón

Torreón is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent Durango,...

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Deputies returned to Congress from this district

• LI Legislature
  • 1979–1982: Francisco José Madero González (PRI)
• LII Legislature
  • 1982–1985:
• LIII Legislature
  • 1985–1988:
• LIV Legislature
  • 1988–1991: Humberto Roque Villanueva
    Humberto Roque Villanueva
    Humberto Roque Villanueva is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional .He is a native of Torreón, Coahuila....
    
     (PRI)
• LV Legislature
  • 1991–1994:
• LVI Legislature
  LVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  -Members of the LVI Legislature:# Dip. Aburto Torres Taide# Dip. Acebo Salman Jesús Guillermo# Dip. Aceves del Olmo Carlos Humberto# Dip. Aceves Hernández Pablo Pedro# Dip. Acosta Ruelas Miguel# Dip. Aguiar Ortega Gabriel# Dip. Aguilar Martínez José Luis...
  
  

Parties

• • 1994–1997: Jesús Salvador Hernández Vélez (PRI)
• LVII Legislature
  LVII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from 1997 to 2000....
  
  
  • 1997–2000: Alberto González Domene (PAN)
• LVIII Legislature
  LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVIII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 1, 2000, to August 31, 2003. All members of the LVIII Legislature were elected in the elections of July 2000....
  
  
  • 2000–2002: José Guillermo Anaya Llamas (PAN)
  • 2002–2003: Silvestre Enrique Faya Viesca (PAN)
• LIX Legislature
  LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LIX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 2003 to August 2006. All members of the lower house of the Congress were elected in the elections of July 2003 while members of the upper house were elected in the elections of July 2000.-Chamber of Deputies:-Senate of...
  
  
  • 2003–2006: Laura Reyes Retana (Ind.)
• LX Legislature
  LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico is meeting from September 1, 2006, to September 1, 2009. All members of both the lower and upper houses of Congress were elected in the elections of July 2006.-Senators by state:-Plurinominal Senators:...
  
  
  • 2006–2009: Jesús de León Tello (PAN)