3rd federal electoral district of Chihuahua

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.^[1]

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
Covers	Juárez (part), Ascensión, Janos
PR region	First
Precincts	366
Population	417,486 (2020 Census)

3rd district in 2017–2022

3rd district in 2005–2017

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, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Lilia Aguilar Gil of the Labour Party (PT).^[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 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).^[7][8][a]

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.^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

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

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.^[12][13]

2005–2017

Under the 2005 districting scheme, the 3rd district covered the eastern portion of Ciudad Juárez, which served as its head town.^[14][15]

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.^[16][15]

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.^[9] Between 1979 and 1996, the 3rd district occupied a part of Ciudad Juárez.^[17]

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

Chihuahua's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1970	Mario Jáquez Provencio[18][b] Fernando Pacheco Parra		1970–1971 1971–1973	48th Congress
1973	Francisco Rodríguez Pérez[19]		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	José Reyes Estrada Aguirre[20]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	René Franco Barreno[21]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Enrique Soto Izquierdo [es][22]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Héctor Mejía Gutiérrez [es][23]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Miguel Agustín Corral[24]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Carlos Morales Villalobos[25]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Sergio Vázquez Olivas[26]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Eliher Flores Prieto [es][27]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Carlos Borunda Zaragoza[28]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	María Ávila Serna[29]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Cruz Pérez Cuéllar[30]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	María Antonieta Pérez Reyes[31]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Carlos Angulo Parra[32]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	María Ávila Serna[33]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018[34]	Claudia Elena Lastra Muñoz[35]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021[36]	Lilia Aguilar Gil[37]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024[4]	Lilia Aguilar Gil[5]		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	Y	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
N	Unregistered candidates			193	0.15 / 100
N	Spoilt papers			1,927	1.52 / 100
Total				126,821	100 / 100
Source: IFE.[38]

Presidential elections

Chihuahua's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018[39]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	52.8644
2024[40]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	74.5776

Notes

1. The remainder of the municipality of Juárez is assigned to the 1st, 2nd and 4th districts.
2. Jáquez Provencio resigned his seat in Congress upon being elected municipal president of Ciudad Juárez.