The twenty-seventh federal electoral district of the Federal District (Distrito electoral federal 27 del Distrito Federal) is a defunct federal electoral district of Mexico. Occupying a portion of what is today Mexico City, it was in existence from 1973 to 2018.
During that time, it returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system, electing its first in the 1973 mid-term election and its last in the 2015 mid-terms. From 1979 onwards, votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions.[1][2]
The 25th, 26th and 27th districts were abolished in the 2017 redistricting process because the capital's population no longer warranted that number of seats in Congress.[3]
In its final form, when the capital accounted for 27 districts, the 27th was located in the south-east of the city. It covered the whole of the borough of Tláhuac.[4][5][6]
1996–2005
Under the 1996 scheme, the capital comprised 30 districts. The 27th covered Tláhuac and the neighbouring borough of Milpa Alta to the south.[5][7]
1978–2005
The districting scheme in force from 1978 to 1996 was the result of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, the Federal District's seat allocation rose from 27 to 40.[8] The 27th district covered portions of the boroughs of Coyoacán, Iztapalapa and Tlalpan.[9]
^"Distrito Federal". División del Territorio de la República en 300 Distritos Electorales Uninominales para Elecciones Federales. Diario Oficial de la Federación. 29 May 1978. p. 20. Retrieved 24 August 2024. The link contains an exact description of the district's territory.