title: Sixth Federal Electoral District of Chiapas
text: # Sixth Federal Electoral District of Chiapas
  
  The Sixth Federal Electoral District of Chiapas (VI Distrito Electoral Federal de Chiapas) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 12 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
  
  It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post system.
  
  ## District territory
  
  The Sixth District of Chiapas is located in the centre of the state and covers the municipalities of Acala, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapilla, Chicoasén, Ixtapa, Las Rosas, Nicolás Ruiz, Osumacinta, San Lucas, Soyaló, Suchiapa, Totolapa, and Venustiano Carranza, plus the southern and western parts of the municipality of Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
  
  The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
  
  ## Previous districting schemes
  
  ### 1996–2005 district
  
  Between 1996 and 2005, the Sixth District had a different configuration. The head town was Chiapa de Corzo and it covered the following municipalities:
  
  * Acala, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapilla, Ixtapa, Nicolás Ruiz, San Lucas, Soyaló, Totolapa and Venustiano Carranza, all of which are still part of the district, plus:
  * Bochil, La Concordia, and Villa Corzo.
  
  ## Deputies returned to Congress from this district
  
  * L Legislature
     * 1976–1979: Leonardo León Cerpa (PRI)
  * LI Legislature
     * 1979–1982: Alberto Ramón Cerdio Bado (PRI)
  * LII Legislature
     * 1982–1985:
  * LIII Legislature
     * 1985–1988:
  * LIV Legislature
     * 1988–1991: Romeo Ruiz Armento (PRI)
  * LV Legislature
     * 1991–1994:
  * LVI Legislature
     * 1994–1997: Rafael Ceballos Cancino (PRI)
  * LVII Legislature
     * 2000–1999: Roberto Albores Guillén (PRI)
     * 1999–2000: Agustín Santiago Albores (PRI)
  * LVIII Legislature
     * 2000–2003: Roberto Domínguez Castellanos (PRI)
  * LIX Legislature
     * 2003–2006: Roberto Aguilar Hernández (PRI)
  * LX Legislature
     * 2006–2009: Héctor Narcía Álvarez (PRD)
  
  ## References and notes
  
  * ↑ Instituto Federal Electoral. "Condensado de Chiapas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
  * ↑ Instituto Federal Electoral. "Distritación de 1996 de Chiapas" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
  * ↑ Albores Guillén requested a leave of absence from Congress upon his appointment as interim governor of Chiapas, following the resignation of Julio César Ruiz Ferro in the aftermath of the Acteal Massacre of 22 December 1997.
  