The 3rd federal electoral district of Quintana Roo () 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 Quintana Roo.
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.
The 3rd district was created as part of the 2005 redistricting process and was first contested in the 2006 general election.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Luis Humberto Aldana Navarro of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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, the 3rd district covers the 10 precincts () that make up the municipality of Isla Mujeres and 321 precincts in the neighbouring municipality of Benito Juárez.
The head town (), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Cancún, the municipal seat of Benito Juárez. The district reported a population of 472,401 in the 2020 census.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1973 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Quintana Roo 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 Chamber of Deputies 194 196 300Sources:
2017–2022 The 2017 redistricting process assigned Quintana Roo its 4th district. From 2017 to 2022, the 3rd district had its head town at Cancún and it comprised 242 precincts in the municipality of Benito Juárez.
2005–2017 The 3rd district was created under the 2005 districting scheme, from the portion of the 2nd district corresponding to the urban area of the municipality of Benito Juárez: i.e., the city and resort of Cancún, which served as the head town. The link contains comparative maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Quintana Roo's 3rd district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature2006Yolanda Garmendia Hernández2006–200960th Congress2009Carlos Joaquín González2009–201261st Congress2012Graciela Saldaña Fraire2012–201562nd Congress20152015–201863rd Congress20182018–202164th Congress20212021–202465th Congress2024Luis Humberto Aldana Navarro2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Quintana Roo's 3rd district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 76.40882024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 78.3698
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