The 3rd federal electoral district of 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.
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.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Ulises Mejía Haro of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
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:
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 of Zacatecas covers 430 electoral precincts () across 14 municipalities in the north of the state:
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 (), 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.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Zacatecas's 3rd district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1976Filiberto Soto Solís 1976–197949th Congress1976José Leal Longoria 1976–197950th Congress1979Rafael Cervantes Acuña 1979–198251st Congress1982Roberto Castillo AguilarEulogio Quirarta Flores 1982–198552nd Congress1985Eliseo Rangel Gaspar 1985–198853rd Congress1988Victorio de la Torre 1988–199154th Congress1991Antonio Sandoval Luna 1991–19921992–199455th Congress1994Gustavo Salinas Íñiguez 1994–199756th Congress1997Ricardo Monreal ÁvilaMaría Martha Veyna Soriano 1997–19981998–200057th Congress2000Magdalena Núñez Monreal 2000–200358th Congress2003Amalia GarcíaRafael Candelas Salinas 2003–20042004–200659th Congress2006Raymundo Cárdenas 2006–200960th Congress2009Heladio Verver y Vargas Ramírez 2009–201261st Congress2012Judit Guerrero López 2012–201562nd Congress2015Claudia Anaya Mota Elizabeth Hernández Calderón 2015–2018201863rd Congress2018 2018–202164th Congress2021 2021–202465th Congress2024Ulises Mejía Haro 2024–202766th Congress
Presidential elections + Zacatecas's 3rd district Election District won by Party or coalition % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 50.62532024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 49.9009
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