Patricia Jiménez Delgado

Silvia Patricia Jiménez Delgado^[a] (born 6 November 1963) is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party (PAN). A native of Durango, she has held several political offices in that state: most recently, representing its 4th congressional district in the Chamber of Deputies.

Known since childhood as Paty Jiménez,^[1] she was born in central Durango in 1963.^[b] One of seven children, her father died when she was young and her mother migrated northwards in search of work.^[1]

She graduated in accountancy from the Juárez University of the State of Durango (UJED) in 1987.^[2] While at university, she played for the women's basketball team, where her height – 1.70 metres (5.6 ft) – gave her a distinct advantage.^[1]

During the mid-1980s she also developed an interest in politics and joined the National Action Party.^[3] She has held various positions within the party structure, including state counsellor in 2014–2022, national counsellor in 2019–2022, and general secretary of the party in Durango in 2019.^[2] In 2015, she contended for the PAN's candidacy for the governorship of Durango, but lost to the eventual winner of the 5 June 2016 election, José Rosas Aispuro Torres.^[1]

Paty Jiménez was a member of the Durango municipal council in 2010–2013 has served two terms as a local deputy in the Congress of Durango: from 2016 to 2018, and from 2021 to 2024.^[3][2]

In the 2024 general election, she was the PAN's candidate for Durango's 4th congressional district, which covers the urban core of the state capital, Victoria de Durango.^[4] Running as the joint candidate of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition (in which the PAN allied itself with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)), she secured a narrow victory (89,583 votes to 82,419) over Alfonso Primitivo Ríos Vázquez of the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition.^[5] She was duly elected to represent the district for the duration of the 66th Congress (2024–2027).^[6]