The Seventeenth Federal Electoral District of the Federal District (XVII Distrito Electoral Federal del Distrito Federal) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts

Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico

The Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico are the 300 constituencies or electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of federal elections. Each district returns one Federal Deputy, who sits in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Federal Congress...

 into which Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 27 such districts in the Federal District ("DF" or Mexico City).

It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress

Congress of Mexico

The Congress of the Union is the legislative branch of the Mexican government...

 for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post

Plurality voting system

The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...

 system.

District territory

Under the 2005 districting scheme, the DF's Seventeenth District covers the whole of
the borough

Boroughs of the Mexican Federal District

Mexico City — politically and administratively constituted as the Federal District — is divided into sixteen boroughs for administrative purposes. They constitute second-level administrative divisions, on par with the municipalities of Mexico. However, unlike municipalities, they do not have...

 (delegación) of Cuajimalpa

Cuajimalpa

Cuajimalpa de Morelos is one of the 16 boroughs of Mexico City. Its name comes from the indigenous expression "over sticks of wood"...

,
plus that portion of the borough of Álvaro Obregón

Álvaro Obregón, D.F.

Álvaro Obregón is one of the 16 delegaciones into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It contains a large portion of the south-west part of Mexico City. It had a 2010 census population of 727,034 inhabitants and lies at an elevation of 2,319 m...

 not covered by either the 16th or 26th Districts.

1996–2005 district

Between 1996 and 2005, the 17th District covered the whole of Cuajimalpa, plus a portion of Álvaro Obregón located in the north of the borough.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

Parties

• XLIII Legislature
  • 1955–1958: Alfonso Ituarte Servín (PAN)
• L Legislature
  • 1976–1979: Héctor Hernández Casanova (PRI)
• LI Legislature
  • 1979–1982: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer (PRI)
• LII Legislature
  • 1982–1985: Guillermo Dávila Martínez (PRI)
• LIII Legislature
  • 1985–1988:
• LIV Legislature
  • 1988–1991: José Luis Luege Tamargo
    José Luis Luege Tamargo
    José Luis Luege Tamargo is a Mexican politician and bureaucrat. Luege holds a degree in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at UNAM, where he taught for five years. He obtained two specialties in iron and steel processes, one at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and another at the...
    
     (PAN)
• LV Legislature
  • 1991–1994:
• LVI Legislature
  LVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  -Members of the LVI Legislature:# Dip. Aburto Torres Taide# Dip. Acebo Salman Jesús Guillermo# Dip. Aceves del Olmo Carlos Humberto# Dip. Aceves Hernández Pablo Pedro# Dip. Acosta Ruelas Miguel# Dip. Aguiar Ortega Gabriel# Dip. Aguilar Martínez José Luis...
  
  
  • 1994–1997: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias (PRI)
• LVII Legislature
  LVII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from 1997 to 2000....
  
  
  • 1997–2000:
• LVIII Legislature
  LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVIII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 1, 2000, to August 31, 2003. All members of the LVIII Legislature were elected in the elections of July 2000....
  
  
  • 2000–2003: Sara Guadalupe Figuera Canedo (PVEM)
• LIX Legislature
  LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
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  • 2003–2006: María Angélica Díaz (PRD)
• LX Legislature
  LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
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  • 2006–2009: Aleida Alavez Ruiz (PRD)