18th federal electoral district of Veracruz

Veracruz lost a congressional district in the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 elections. The reconfigured 18th district covers 217 electoral precincts () across 25 municipalities in the state's Mountains region: • Acultzingo, Aquila, Astacinga, Atlahuilco, Camerino Z. Mendoza, Coetzala, Cuichapa, Los Reyes, Magdalena, Maltrata, Mixtla de Altamirano, Naranjal, Nogales, Omealca, Rafael Delgado, San Andrés Tenejapan, Soledad Atzompa, Tehuipango, Tequila, Texhuacan, Tezonapa, Tlaquilpa, Tlilapan, Xoxocotla and Zongolica. The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Zongolica. The district reported a population of 423,573 in the 2020 Census and, with Indigenous and Afrodescendent inhabitants accounting for over 62% of that total, it is classified by the INE as an indigenous district. ==Previous districting schemes==

Because of shifting demographics, Veracruz currently has four fewer districts than the 23 the state was allocated under the 1977 electoral reforms. 2017–2022 :Between 2017 and 2022, Veracruz was assigned 20 electoral districts. The 18th district comprised 26 municipalities: the same 25 as under the 2023 plan, plus Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc, which the 2023 scheme assigned to the 15th district. :*Acultzingo, Astacinga, Atlahuilco, Camerino Z. Mendoza, Coetzala, Cuichapa, Cuitláhuac, Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc, Magdalena, Mixtla de Altamirano, Omealca, Rafael Delgado, Los Reyes, San Andrés Tenejapan, Soledad Atzompa, Tehuipango, Tequila, Texhuacan, Tezonapa, Tlaquilpa, Tlilapan, Xoxocotla, Yanga and Zongolica. 1996–2005 :Under the 1996 districting plan, which assigned Veracruz 23 districts, the head town was at Zongolica and the district covered 19 municipalities. The newly created 18th district had its head town at Temapache in the state's northern Huasteca Baja region and it covered the municipalities of Álamo Temapache, Castillo de Teayo and Tihuatlán. ==Deputies returned to Congress==