The 3rd federal electoral district of Chihuahua (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 03 de Chihuahua) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state of Chihuahua.
| Chihuahua's 3rd | |
|---|---|
| Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico | |
Chihuahua's 3rd district since 2022 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Member | Lilia Aguilar Gil |
| Party | ▌Labour Party |
| Congress | 66th (2024–2027) |
| District | |
| State | Chihuahua |
| Head town | Ciudad Juárez |
| Coordinates | 31°44′N 106°29′W / 31.733°N 106.483°W |
| Covers | Juárez (part), Ascensión, Janos |
| PR region | First |
| Precincts | 366 |
| Population | 417,486 (2020 Census) |
It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system. Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the first region.
The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Lilia Aguilar Gil of the Labour Party (PT).
District territory
Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the 3rd district covers the western portion of Ciudad Juárez and the municipality of Juárez, together with the adjacent municipalities of Ascensión and Janos, for a total of 366 electoral precincts (secciones electorales).
The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Juárez. The district reported a population of 417,486 in the 2020 Census.
Previous districting schemes
| 1974 | 1978 | 1996 | 2005 | 2017 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chihuahua | 6 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 196 | 300 | ||||
| Sources: | ||||||
2017–2022
- Between 2017 and 2022 the district comprised the western portions of Ciudad Juárez and the municipality of Juárez. Its head town was Ciudad Juárez.
2005–2017
- Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 3rd district covered the eastern portion of Ciudad Juárez, which served as its head town.
1996–2005
- Chihuahua lost its 10th district in the 1996 redistricting process. The reconfigured 3rd district covered the eastern portion of Ciudad Juárez and the southern reaches of the municipality of Juárez.
1978–1996
- The districting scheme in force from 1978 to 1996 was the result of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under that plan, Chihuahua's seat allocation rose from six to ten. Between 1979 and 1996, the 3rd district occupied a part of Ciudad Juárez.
Deputies returned to Congress
| National parties | |
|---|---|
| Current | |
| PAN | |
| PRI | |
| PT | |
| PVEM | |
| MC | |
| Morena | |
| Defunct or local only | |
| PLM | |
| PNR | |
| PRM | |
| PNM | |
| PP | |
| PPS | |
| PARM | |
| PFCRN | |
| Convergencia | |
| PANAL | |
| PSD | |
| PES | |
| PES | |
| PRD | |
| Election | Deputy | Party | Term | Legislature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Mario Jáquez Provencio Fernando Pacheco Parra | 1970–1971 1971–1973 | 48th Congress | |
| 1973 | Francisco Rodríguez Pérez | 1973–1976 | 49th Congress | |
| 1976 | José Reyes Estrada Aguirre | 1976–1979 | 50th Congress | |
| 1979 | René Franco Barreno | 1979–1982 | 51st Congress | |
| 1982 | Enrique Soto Izquierdo | 1982–1985 | 52nd Congress | |
| 1985 | Héctor Mejía Gutiérrez | 1985–1988 | 53rd Congress | |
| 1988 | Miguel Agustín Corral | 1988–1991 | 54th Congress | |
| 1991 | Carlos Morales Villalobos | 1991–1994 | 55th Congress | |
| 1994 | Sergio Vázquez Olivas | 1994–1997 | 56th Congress | |
| 1997 | Eliher Flores Prieto | 1997–2000 | 57th Congress | |
| 2000 | Carlos Borunda Zaragoza | 2000–2003 | 58th Congress | |
| 2003 | María Ávila Serna | 2003–2006 | 59th Congress | |
| 2006 | Cruz Pérez Cuéllar | 2006–2009 | 60th Congress | |
| 2009 | María Antonieta Pérez Reyes | 2009–2012 | 61st Congress | |
| 2012 | Carlos Angulo Parra | 2012–2015 | 62nd Congress | |
| 2015 | María Ávila Serna | 2015–2018 | 63rd Congress | |
| 2018 | Claudia Elena Lastra Muñoz | 2018–2021 | 64th Congress | |
| 2021 | Lilia Aguilar Gil | 2021–2024 | 65th Congress | |
| 2024 | Lilia Aguilar Gil | 2024–2027 | 66th Congress |
Congressional results
The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains full electoral results from 1964 to 2021.
| 2 July 2006 general election: Chihuahua's 3rd | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party or Alliance | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||
| National Action Party | Cruz Pérez Cuéllar | 64,827 | 51.12 / 100 | ||
| Alliance for Mexico (PRI, PVEM) | Antonio Candelas Alvarado | 33,270 | 26.23 / 100 | ||
| Coalition for the Good of All (PRD, PT, Convergencia) | Juvicela Enríquez Romero | 16,766 | 13.23 / 100 | ||
| New Alliance Party | Sergio Guillermo Armendariz Díaz | 6,855 | 5.41 / 100 | ||
| Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative | Benjamín Quezada Martínez | 2,973 | 2.34 / 100 | ||
| Unregistered candidates | 193 | 0.15 / 100 | |||
| Spoilt papers | 1,927 | 1.52 / 100 | |||
| Total | 126,821 | 100 / 100 | |||
| Source: IFE. | |||||
Presidential elections
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