3rd federal electoral district of Guanajuato

Guanajuato's 3rd
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
3rd district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Fernando Torres Graciano
Party	▌ National Action Party
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Guanajuato
Head town	León de Los Aldama
Coordinates	21°07′N101°41′W / 21.117°N 101.683°W / 21.117; -101.683
Covers	Municipality of León (part)
PR region	Second
Precincts	214
Population	433,046 (2020 Census)

Guanajuato's districts in 2017–2022

The 3rd federal electoral district of Guanajuato (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 03 de Guanajuato) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of 15 such districts in the state of Guanajuato. ^[1]

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 second region. ^{[2] [3]}

The current member for the district, re-elected in the 2024 general election, is Fernando Torres Graciano of the National Action Party (PAN). ^{[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] Guanajuato's 3rd district covers 214 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across the northern portion of the municipality of León. ^{[7] [a]}

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of León. The district reported a population of 433,046 in the 2020 Census. ^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Guanajuato	9	13	15	14	15	15
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1] [8] [9] [10]

2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the 3rd district's head town was at León and it covered 151 precincts in the north of the municipality. ^{[11] [10]}

2005–2017

Under the 2005 plan, Guanajuato had only 14 districts. This district's head town was at León and it covered 191 precincts in the north-east of the municipality. ^{[12] [13]}

1996–2005

In the 1996 scheme, under which Guanajuato was assigned 15 seats, the district had its head town at León and it comprised 214 precincts in the north of the municipality. ^{[14] [13]}

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, Guanajuato's seat allocation rose from 9 to 13. ^[8] The 3rd district covered portions of the city and municipality of León. ^[15]

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

Guanajuato's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916  [ es ]	José Natividad Macías Castorena [16] [17]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
1976	Juan José Varela Mayorga [18]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Juan Rojas Moreno [19]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Gregorio López García [20]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Héctor Hugo Varela Flores [21]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Vicente Fox Quesada [22]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Luis Arturo Bernabé Torres del Valle [23]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Ricardo Padilla Martín [24]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Alberto Cifuentes Negrete [25]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Ricardo Sheffield Padilla [26]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Jorge Carlos Obregón Serrano [27]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Ernesto Oviedo Oviedo [28]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	José Guadalupe Vera Hernández [29]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Elizabeth Vargas Martín del Campo [30]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Ricardo Sheffield Padilla [31]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018 [32]	María de los Ángeles Ayala Díaz [33]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021 [34]	Fernando Torres Graciano [35]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024 [4]	Fernando Torres Graciano [5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Guanajuato's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018 [36]	Ricardo Anaya Cortés	Por México al Frente	57.6995
2024 [37]	Bertha Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz	Fuerza y Corazón por México	58.7536

Notes

1. The 5th, 6th and 11th districts cover the remainder of the municipality.

References

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