HERMILA GALINDO, MEXICO'S FIRST FEMALE CANDIDATE FOR FEDERAL CONGRESSWOMAN AND FIRST LEGISLATIVE CENSOR

In various biographical sheets it is stated that Hermila Galindo (1886-1954) was the first Mexican congresswoman. However, there are no records in the Chamber of Deputies that historically support this assertion. If she did not obtain a seat, did she campaign? What were the characteristics of her campaign in a social context in which the political participation of women was practically null? An exhaustive search in the National Newspaper Library and in the personal archives of Rosario Topete Galindo, Hermila Galindo's daughter, made it possible to determine that Galindo was the first female candidate for federal deputy, although she did not win the elections. It also made it possible to reconstruct the campaign carried out between February and March 1917 in the V Electoral District of Mexico City, a work that is presented in this article.