3rd federal electoral district of Querétaro

The 3rd federal electoral district of Querétaro (Spanish: Distrito electoral federal 03 de Querétaro) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of six such districts in the state of Querétaro.^[1]

Querétaro's 3rd
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
3rd district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Lorena García Jimeno Alcocer
Party	▌National Action Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Querétaro
Head town	Santiago de Querétaro
Coordinates	20°35′N 100°23′W
Covers	Municipality of Querétaro (part)
PR region	Fifth
Precincts	185
Population	420,281 (2020 Census)

Querétaro under the 2017–2022 districting plan

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; since 2024, those elected from the fifth region.^[2][3]

Suspended in 1930,^[a] the 3rd district was re-established by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300. Under those reforms, Querétaro's seat allocation rose from two to three.^[7] The new district was first contested in the 1979 mid-term election.

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Lorena García Jimeno Alcocer of the National Action Party (PAN).^[8][9]

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which assigned Querétaro an additional seat in Congress and is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections,^[10] the 3rd district covers 185 precincts (secciones electorales) across a portion of the municipality of Querétaro.^[11][12]

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, Santiago de Querétaro. The district reported a population of 420,281 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Querétaro	2	3	4	4	5	6
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][7][13][14]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, when the state contained five federal electoral districts, the 3rd covered a portion of the municipality of Querétaro.^[15][14]

2005–2017

Under the 2005 plan, Querétaro had four districts. The 3rd district covered 165 precincts in the municipality of Querétaro.^[16][17]

1996–2005

In the 1996 scheme, which gave Querétaro its fourth congressional seat, the district comprised the northern part of the municipality of Querétaro, including the northern portion of the city.^[18][17]

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, Querétaro's seat allocation rose from two to three.^[7] The new 3rd district's head town was at El Marqués and it covered the municipalities of Arroyo Seco, Colón, Corregidora, El Marqués, Huimilpan, Jalpan, Landa, Peñamiller, Pinal de Amoles, San Joaquín and Tolimán.^[19]

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

Querétaro's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916 [es]	José María Truchuelo [es][20][21]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
The 3rd district was suspended between 1930 and 1979
1979	Rodolfo Luis Monroy Sandoval[22]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Ernesto Luque Feregrino[23]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Augusto Guerrero Castro[24]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Benjamín Edgardo Rocha Pedraza[25]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	José Guadalupe Martínez Martínez[26]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Ernesto Luque Feregrino[27]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Samuel Gustavo Villanueva García[28]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Francisco de Jesús de Silva Ruiz[29]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Guillermo Tamborrel Suárez[30]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	María Jiménez del Castillo[31]		2006–2008	60th Congress
2009	Alfredo Francisco Lugo Oñate[32]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Marcos Aguilar Vega[33]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Gerardo Gabriel Cuanalo Santos[34]		2009–2012	63rd Congress
2018[35]	Beatriz Robles Gutiérrez [es][36]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[37]	Ignacio Loyola Vera[38]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[8]	Lorena García Jimeno Alcocer[9]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Querétaro's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[39]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	46.0871
2024[40]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	48.4878

Notes

1. An amendment to Article 52 of the Constitution in 1928 changed the original provision of "one deputy per 60,000 inhabitants" to "one deputy per 100,000";^[4][5] as a result, the size of the Chamber of Deputies fell from 281 in the 1928 election to 171 in 1934.^[6]