3rd federal electoral district of Tabasco

Tabasco's 3rd
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
3rd district
Incumbent
Member	Rosa Margarita Graniel
Party	▌ Morena
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Tabasco
Head town	Comalcalco
Coordinates	18°17′N93°12′W / 18.283°N 93.200°W / 18.283; -93.200
Covers	Comalcalco, Cunduacán
Region	Third
Precincts	159
Population	354,198 (2020 Census)

Tabasco's districts in 2017–2022

The 3rd federal electoral district of Tabasco (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 03 de 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. ^[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 third region. ^{[2] [3]}

Suspended in 1930, ^[a] Tabasco's 3rd was re-established under President Luis Echeverría (1970–1976). The restored district returned its first deputy in the 1973 mid-term election. ^[7]

The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Rosa Margarita Graniel Zenteno of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). ^{[8] [9]}

District territory

Under the 2022 districting plan adopted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which is to be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, ^[10] Tabasco's 3rd district lies to the north-west of the state capital, Villahermosa, and covers 159 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across two of the state's municipalities: ^[11]

• Comalcalco and Cunduacán.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Comalcalco. The district reported a population of 354,198 in the 2020 Census. ^[1]

Previous districting schemes

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2022
Tabasco	3	5	6	6	6	6
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1] [12] [7] [13]

2017–2022

From 2017 to 2022, the district had the same configuration as in the 2022 scheme. ^{[14] [13]}

2005–2017

Under the 2005 scheme, the district covered the municipalities of Comalcalco and Cunduacán as in the later plans, but also included 29 precincts in the south-east corner of the neighbouring municipality of Cárdenas. ^{[15] [16]}

1996–2005

Tabasco gained its 6th district in the 1996 redistricting process. The 3rd covered the state's north-west, comprising the municipalities of Comalcalco, Cunduacán and Jalpa de Méndez, with the head town at Comalcalco. ^{[17] [16]}

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, Tabasco's seat allocation rose from three to five. ^[12] The 3rd district's head town was at Cárdenas and it comprised the municipalities of Cárdenas and Huimanguillo. ^[18]

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

Tabasco's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1916  [ es ]	Carmen Sánchez Magallanes  [ es ] [19] [20]		1916–1917	Constituent Congress of Querétaro
...
The 3rd district was suspended between 1930 and 1973
1973	Julián Montejo Velázquez [21]		1973–1976	49th Congress
1976	Francisco Rabelo Cupido [22]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Carlos Mario Piñera Rueda [23]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Andrés Sánchez Solís [24]		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Homero Pedrero Priego [25]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Joaquín Ruiz Becerra [26]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Mario Ross García [27]		1991–1994	55th Congress
1994	Carlos Mario de la Fuente Lazo [28]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Carlos Fernando Rosas Cortés [29]		1997–2000	57th Congress
2000	Adela del Carmen Graniel Campos [30]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Rogelio Rodríguez Javier [31]		2003–2006	59th Congress
2006	Moisés Félix Dagdug Lützow [32]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	César Francisco Burelo Burelo [33]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Lorena Méndez Denis [34] [b]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Héctor Peralta Grappin [35]		2015–2018	63rd Congress
2018	Gregorio Efraín Espadas Méndez [36]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021	Lorena Méndez Denis [37]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024 [8]	Rosa Margarita Graniel Zenteno [9]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Results

The corresponding page on the Spanish-language Wikipedia contains results of the congressional elections since 2003.

Presidential elections

Tabasco's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018 [38]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	74.5965
2024 [39]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	76.7801

Notes

1. An amendment to Article 52 of the Constitution in 1928 changed the original provision of "one deputy per 60,000 inhabitants" to "one deputy per 100,000"; ^{[4] [5]} as a result, the size of the Chamber of Deputies fell from 281 in the 1928 election to 171 in 1934. ^[6]
2. Originally elected for the PRD, Méndez Denis switched to the Citizen's Movement on 5 March 2013. On 3 February 2015 she switched again to Morena.

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