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The Seventh Federal Electoral District of Chiapas (VII Distrito Electoral Federal de Chiapas) 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 12 such districts in the state of Chiapas.
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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
The Seventh District of Chiapas is located in the Soconusco region on the state's Pacific coast. It comprises the municipalities of Acacoyagua, Acapetahua, Arriaga, Escuintla, Mapastepec, Pijijiapan, Tonalá and Villa Comaltitlán.
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Tonalá, Chiapas.
1996–2005 district
Between 1996 and 2005, the Seventh District was still in Soconusco region, but had a slightly different configuration. It covered:
The Seventh District of Chiapas was created in 1977. Prior to that year, Chiapas only had six federal electoral districts. The Seventh District elected its first deputy, to the 51st Congress, in 1979.