Fifth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila

District Coah-V

The Fifth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila (V 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 Fifth District covers the municipalities of Matamoros, Parras, Viesca and the southern half of the municipality of Torreón.^[1]

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

Parties
	PAN
	PRI
	PRD
	PT
	PVEM
	MC
	PANAL
	PSD

• LI Legislature
  • 1979–1982:
• LII Legislature
  • 1982–1985:
• LIII Legislature
  • 1985–1988:
• LIV Legislature
  • 1988–1991:
• LV Legislature
  • 1991–1994:
• LVI Legislature
  • 1994–1997: Gerardo Ordaz Moreno (PRI)
• LVII Legislature
  • 1997–2000: Braulio Manuel Fernández Aguirre (PRI)
• LVIII Legislature
  • 2000–2003: Néstor Villarreal Castro (PAN)
• LIX Legislature
  • 2003–2006: Eduardo Olmos Castro (PRI)
• LX Legislature
  • 2006–2009: Augusto Bracho González (PRI)

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