3rd federal electoral district of Durango

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

Durango's 3rd
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
3rd district since 2022
Incumbent
Member	Gerardo Villarreal Solís
Party	▌Ecologist Green Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Durango
Head town	Ciudad Lerdo
Coordinates	25°33′N 103°31′W
Covers	18 municipalities Canatlán, Coneto de Comonfort, Cuencamé, Simón Bolívar, Guadalupe Victoria, Lerdo, Nazas, Nombre de Dios, Nuevo Ideal, Pánuco de Coronado , Peñón Blanco, Poanas, Rodeo, San Juan de Guadalupe, San Juan del Río, Santa Clara, Súchil, Vicente Guerrero
PR region	First
Precincts	414
Population	457,050 (2020 Census)

Durango 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 elected from the first region.^[2][3]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Gerardo Villarreal Solís of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM).^[4][5]

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,^[6] the 3rd district covers 414 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 18 municipalities in the centre and east of the state:^[7][8]

• Canatlán, Coneto de Comonfort, Cuencamé, Simón Bolívar, Guadalupe Victoria, Lerdo, Nazas, Nombre de Dios, Nuevo Ideal, Pánuco de Coronado , Peñón Blanco, Poanas, Rodeo, San Juan de Guadalupe, San Juan del Río, Santa Clara, Súchil and Vicente Guerrero.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Ciudad Lerdo. The district reported a population of 457,050 in the 2020 Census.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Durango	4	6	5	4	4	4
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1][9][10][11]

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

Durango's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916 [es]	Antonio Gutiérrez Rivera [es][12][13]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
1917	Antonio Gutiérrez Rivera [es]		1917–1918	27th Congress
1918	Antonio Gutiérrez Rivera [es]		1918–1920	28th Congress
1920	Salvador Franco Urias		1920–1922	29th Congress
1922 [es]	Salvador Franco Urias		1922–1924	30th Congress
1924	Juan Pablo Estrada		1924–1926	31st Congress
1926	Daniel R. Gutiérrez		1926–1928	27th Congress
1928	Daniel R. Gutiérrez		1928–1930	33rd Congress
1930	Lorenzo Gámiz		1930–1932	34th Congress
1932	Fernando Arenas		1932–1934	35th Congress
1934	Miguel Arrieta Vizcarra		1934–1937	36th Congress
1937	Ernesto Calderón R.		1937–1940	37th Congress
1940	Braulio Meraz Navárez		1940–1943	38th Congress
1943	Marino Castillo Nájera		1943–1946	39th Congress
1946	Ramiro Rodríguez Palafox		1946–1949	40th Congress
1949	Gustavo Durón González		1949–1952	41st Congress
1952	Ramiro Rodríguez Palafox		1952–1955	42nd Congress
1955	Juan Pescador Polanco		1955–1958	43rd Congress
1958	Enrique Wenceslao Sánchez García		1958–1961	44th Congress
1961	Agustín Ruiz Soto		1961–1964	45th Congress
1964	Enrique Wenceslao Sánchez García		1964–1967	46th Congress
1967	Juan Antonio Orozco Fierro		1967–1970	47th Congress
1970	Francisco Navarro Veloz		1970–1973	48th Congress
1973	Víctor Rocha Marín		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Salvador Reyes Nevares[14]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Armando del Castillo Franco [es][15]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	María Albertina Barbosa Espinoza [es][16]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Francisco Gamboa Herrera[17]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Rubén Hernández Higuera[18]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Francisco Gamboa Herrera[19]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	José Rosas Aispuro[20]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Juan Arizmendi Hernández[21]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Olga Margarita Uriarte Rico[22]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Fernando Adame de León[23]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	José Rubén Escajeda Jiménez[24]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Óscar García Barrón[25]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	José Rubén Escajeda Jiménez[26]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Óscar García Barrón[27]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018[28]	Maribel Aguilera Cháirez[29]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[30]	Maribel Aguilera Cháirez[31][a] Martha Alicia Arreola Martínez[33]		2021–2022 2022–2023	65th Congress
2024[4]	Gerardo Villarreal Solís[5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Durango's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[34]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	46.0915
2024[35]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	61.8443

Notes

1. Aguilera Cháirez resigned her seat in January 2022 to take charge of the federal government's social programmes in Durango.^[32]