title: Sixth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila
text: # Sixth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila
  
  The Sixth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila (VI Distrito Electoral Federal de Coahuila) 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 seven such districts in the state of Coahuila.
  
  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
  
  Under the 2005 districting scheme, Coahuila's Sixth District covers the northern half of the municipality of Torreón.
  
  The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Torreón.
  
  ## 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 (PRI)
  * LV Legislature
     * 1991–1994:
  * LVI Legislature
     * 1994–1997: Jesús Salvador Hernández Vélez (PRI)
  * LVII Legislature
     * 1997–2000: Alberto González Domene (PAN)
  * LVIII Legislature
     * 2000–2002: José Guillermo Anaya Llamas (PAN)
     * 2002–2003: Silvestre Enrique Faya Viesca (PAN)
  * LIX Legislature
     * 2003–2006: Laura Reyes Retana (Ind.)
  * LX Legislature
     * 2006–2009: Jesús de León Tello (PAN)
  