The Seventeenth Federal Electoral District of the Federal District (XVII Distrito Electoral Federal del Distrito Federal) 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 27 such districts in the Federal District ("DF" or Mexico City).
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 DF's Seventeenth District covers the whole of the borough (delegación) of Cuajimalpa, plus that portion of the borough of Álvaro Obregón not covered by either the 16th or 26th Districts.
Previous districting schemes
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
XLII Legislature
1952–1955: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (PRI) 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 (PAN) LV Legislature 1991–1994: LVI Legislature 1994–1997: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias (PRI) LVII Legislature 1997–2000: LVIII Legislature 2000–2003: Sara Guadalupe Figueroa Canedo (PVEM) LIX Legislature 2003–2006: María Angélica Díaz (PRD) LX Legislature 2006–2009: Aleida Alavez Ruiz (PRD)