3rd federal electoral district of Tabasco
The 3rd federal electoral district of Tabasco 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 Tabasco.
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 third region.
Suspended in 1930,
Tabasco's 3rd was re-established under President Luis Echeverría. The restored district returned its first deputy in the 1973 mid-term election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Rosa Margarita Graniel Zenteno of the National Regeneration Movement.
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,Tabasco's 3rd district lies to the north-west of the state capital, Villahermosa, and covers 159 electoral precincts across two of the state's municipalities:
- Comalcalco and Cunduacán.
The district reported a population of 354,198 in the 2020 Census.
Previous districting schemes
2017–20222005–2017
1996–2005
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