Sixth federal electoral district of Yucatán

Federal electoral district of Mexico

The sixth federal electoral district of Yucatán (Distrito electoral federal 06 de Yucatán) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of six such districts in the state of Yucatán.

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. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the third region.

Created as part of the 2022 redistricting process, it was first contested in the 2024 general election.

District territory

The sixth district was created as part of the 2022 redistricting process to reflect shifting population dynamics across the country. Under the new districting plan, which will be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the sixth district comprises 145 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) in the urban core of the municipality of Mérida and the whole of the neighbouring municipality of Kanasín.

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

The district has a population of 373,556. With Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 47% of that number, Yucatán's sixth – like all the state's electoral districts, both local and federal – is classified by the National Electoral Institute (INE) as an indigenous district.