38th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico

The 38th federal electoral district of the State of Mexico (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 38 del Estado de México) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 40 such districts in the State of Mexico.

[1] It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session 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 fifth region.

[2][3] The 37th to 40th districts were created by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in its 2005 redistricting process and were first contested in the 2006 general election.

[4] Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,[5] the 38th district is located in the eastern panhandle of the state and covers three of its 125 municipalities: The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Texcoco de Mora.

Federal electoral districts of the State of Mexico since 2022