3rd federal electoral district of Zacatecas

Zacatecas's 3rd
Electoral district of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico
3rd district since 2023
Incumbent
Member	Ulises Mejía Haro
Party	▌ Morena
Congress	66th (2024–2027)
District
State	Zacatecas
Head town	City of Zacatecas
Coordinates	22°46′N102°34′W / 22.767°N 102.567°W / 22.767; -102.567
Covers	14 municipalities Calera, Cañitas de Felipe Pescador, Concepción del Oro, General Enrique Estrada, General Francisco R. Murguía, Mazapil, Melchor Ocampo, Morelos, Pánuco, Río Grande, El Salvador, Vetagrande, Villa de Cos, Zacatecas
Region	Second
Precincts	430
Population	405,879 (2020 Census)

The 3rd federal electoral district of Zacatecas (Spanish : Distrito electoral federal 03 de Zacatecas) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of four such districts in the state of Zacatecas. ^[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, elected in the 2024 general election, is Ulises Mejía Haro of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). ^{[4] [5]}

District territory

Evolution of electoral district numbers

	1974	1978	1996	2005	2017	2023
Zacatecas	4	5	5	4	4	4
Chamber of Deputies	196	300
Sources: [1] [6] [7] [8]

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, ^[9] the 3rd district of Zacatecas covers 430 electoral precincts (secciones electorales) across 14 municipalities in the north of the state: ^[10]

• Calera, Cañitas de Felipe Pescador, Concepción del Oro, General Enrique Estrada, General Francisco R. Murguía, Mazapil, Melchor Ocampo, Morelos, Pánuco, Río Grande, El Salvador, Vetagrande, Villa de Cos and Zacatecas.

The head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the state capital, the city of Zacatecas. The district reported a population of 405,879 in the 2020 Census. ^[1]

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

Zacatecas's 3rd district

Election	Deputy	Party	Term	Legislature
1976	Filiberto Soto Solís [11]		1976–1979	49th Congress
1976	José Leal Longoria [12]		1976–1979	50th Congress
1979	Rafael Cervantes Acuña [13]		1979–1982	51st Congress
1982	Roberto Castillo Aguilar [14] [a] Eulogio Quirarta Flores		1982–1985	52nd Congress
1985	Eliseo Rangel Gaspar [15]		1985–1988	53rd Congress
1988	Victorio de la Torre [16]		1988–1991	54th Congress
1991	Pedro de León Sánchez  [ es ] [17] [18] Antonio Sandoval Luna [19]		1991–1992 1992–1994	55th Congress
1994	Gustavo Salinas Íñiguez [20]		1994–1997	56th Congress
1997	Ricardo Monreal Ávila [21] María Martha Veyna Soriano [22]		1997–1998 1998–2000	57th Congress
2000	Magdalena Núñez Monreal [23]		2000–2003	58th Congress
2003	Amalia García [24] Rafael Candelas Salinas [25]		2003–2004 2004–2006	59th Congress
2006	Raymundo Cárdenas [26]		2006–2009	60th Congress
2009	Heladio Verver y Vargas Ramírez [27]		2009–2012	61st Congress
2012	Judit Guerrero López [28]		2012–2015	62nd Congress
2015	Claudia Anaya Mota [29] Elizabeth Hernández Calderón [30]		2015–2018 2018	63rd Congress
2018	Alfredo Femat Bañuelos  [ es ] [31]		2018–2021	64th Congress
2021	Alfredo Femat Bañuelos  [ es ] [32]		2021–2024	65th Congress
2024 [4]	Ulises Mejía Haro [5]		2024–2027	66th Congress

Presidential elections

Zacatecas's 3rd district

Election	District won by	Party or coalition	%
2018 [33]	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	Juntos Haremos Historia	50.6253
2024 [34]	Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo	Sigamos Haciendo Historia	49.9009

Notes

1. Castillo Aguilar died in office on 8 January 1983.

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