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The Fifth Federal Electoral District of Yucatán (V Distrito Electoral Federal de Yucatán) 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 five such districts in the state of Yucatán.
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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, the district covers the municipalities in the west and south-west of the state.
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Ticul.
1996–2005 district
Between 1996 and 2005, Yucatán's Fifth District covered a similar territory as under the 2005 scheme, but with a larger slice of the south of the state.