3rd federal electoral district of Chihuahua


The 3rd federal electoral district of 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.
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 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.

District territory

Under the 2023 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute, 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.
The head town, 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

2017–2022
2005–2017
1996–2005
'''1978–1996'''

Deputies returned to Congress

ElectionDeputyPartyTermLegislature
1970Mario Jáquez Provencio
Fernando Pacheco Parra		1970–1971
1971–1973		48th Congress
1973Francisco Rodríguez Pérez1973–197649th Congress
1976José Reyes Estrada Aguirre1976–197950th Congress
1979René Franco Barreno1979–198251st Congress
19821982–198552nd Congress
19851985–198853rd Congress
1988Miguel Agustín Corral1988–199154th Congress
1991Carlos Morales Villalobos1991–199455th Congress
1994Sergio Vázquez Olivas1994–199756th Congress
19971997–200057th Congress
2000Carlos Borunda Zaragoza2000–200358th Congress
2003María Ávila Serna2003–200659th Congress
2006Cruz Pérez Cuéllar2006–200960th Congress
2009María Antonieta Pérez Reyes2009–201261st Congress
2012Carlos Angulo Parra2012–201562nd Congress
2015María Ávila Serna2015–201863rd Congress
2018Claudia Elena Lastra Muñoz2018–202164th Congress
2021Lilia Aguilar Gil2021–202465th Congress
2024Lilia Aguilar Gil2024–202766th 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 AllianceCandidateVotesPercentage--
National Action PartyCruz Pérez Cuéllar64,827
Alliance for Mexico
Antonio Candelas Alvarado33,270
Coalition for the Good of All
Juvicela Enríquez Romero16,766
New Alliance PartySergio Guillermo Armendariz Díaz6,855
Social Democratic and Peasant AlternativeBenjamín Quezada Martínez2,973
Unregistered candidates193--
Spoilt papers1,927--
Total126,821---
Source: IFE.-----