translated from Spanish: INE removes two districts from CDMX after population decline

The National Electoral Institute (INE) reported that Mexico City will lose two federal districts, after registering a lower population growth in the 2020 Population and Housing Census, which is still in process.
The institute explained that the redistribution seeks that the 300 federal districts are conformed looking for the population balance, so the electoral map must be updated dividing by 300 the population of the country reported in the last census, to obtain the average size that each electoral district should have.
According to the INE, the population of Mexico City turned out to be 9 million 209 thousand 944 inhabitants, so it corresponds to 22 districts and not 24 as in 2010.

#BoletínINE ? The @INEMexico will update electoral districts in accordance with the 2020 Census. #Censo2020mx https://t.co/EBSb1E25cu pic.twitter.com/U0bbFCUT31
— @INEMexico (@INEMexico) September 20, 2021

“For Mexico City to maintain its 24 electoral districts it would have to have 10,093,320 inhabitants (24 x 420,047); however, its population was 9,209,944, as it had a population growth lower than required to preserve its 24 districts,” he explained in a statement.

The INE affirmed that the lower growth of Mexico City compared to other entities is a fact “that has been occurring for several decades and is the reason why, in the last three federal districts (1996, 2005 and 2017), the city has seen the number of single-member federal electoral districts decrease.”
Therefore, he said, it went from 40 districts in 197th, to 30, by 1996; then to 27, in 2005; and finally in 24, for 2017.
This, after the claim of the head of Government Claudia Sheinbaum, who considered that there is a “partial” action of the INE against the states where Morena has the majority.
“It seems like an action again, again – I repeat – partial by the National Electoral Institute, taking sides, when they should be impartial because, in the redistricting of the states, it precisely takes away deputations from the states that have a majority on the part of Morena or this coalition. It is not understood what the arguments are for this redistricting,” he said on September 19.
Meanwhile, the electoral counselor Ciro Murayama explained that the calculation is only the result of the census.

He says @Claudiashein that @INEMexico unfairly removes districts from CDMX.
No, it is a result of the census @INEGI_INFORMA
In 2010, Mexico City accounted for 7.9% of Mexico’s population.
In 2020 the CDMX was 7.3%
The total population grew 12.2%, the capital 4.1%https://t.co/Gq7UPaHpzY
— Ciro Murayama (@CiroMurayamaINE) September 20, 2021

“In reality, the population of the country’s capital weighs less and less in the national total. Other entities gain relative weight. Entities whose population grows the fastest win districts; those who lose them the least. Pure demography and mathematics, without bias,” published the INE counselor.
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Original source in Spanish