The 3rd federal electoral district of 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.
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.
Suspended in 1930, 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.
The current member for the district, elected in the 2024 general election, is Rosa Margarita Graniel Zenteno 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, Tabasco's 3rd district lies to the north-west of the state capital, Villahermosa, and covers 159 electoral precincts () across two of the state's municipalities:
Comalcalco and Cunduacán.
The head town (), 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.
Previous districting schemes + Evolution of electoral district numbers 1974 1978 1996 2005 2017 2023 Tabasco 3 5 6 6 6 6 Chamber of Deputies 196 300 Sources:
2017–2022 From 2017 to 2022, the district had the same configuration as in the 2023 scheme.
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. The link contains maps of the 1996 and 2005 schemes.
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.
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. The 3rd district's head town was at Cárdenas and it comprised the municipalities of Cárdenas and Huimanguillo.
Deputies returned to Congress
+ Tabasco's 3rd district Election Deputy Party Term Legislature1916–1917Constituent Congressof Querétaro ... The 3rd district was suspended between 1930 and 19731973Julián Montejo Velázquez1973–197649th Congress1976Francisco Rabelo Cupido1976–197950th Congress1979Carlos Mario Piñera Rueda1979–198251st Congress1982Andrés Sánchez Solís1982–198552nd Congress1985Homero Pedrero Priego1985–198853rd Congress1988Joaquín Ruiz Becerra1988–199154th Congress1991Mario Ross García1991–199455th Congress1994Carlos Mario de la Fuente Lazo1994–199756th Congress1997Carlos Fernando Rosas Cortés1997–200057th Congress2000Adela del Carmen Graniel Campos2000–200358th Congress2003Rogelio Rodríguez Javier2003–200659th Congress2006Moisés Félix Dagdug Lützow2006–200960th Congress2009César Francisco Burelo Burelo2009–201261st Congress2012Lorena Méndez Denis 2012–201562nd Congress2015Héctor Peralta Grappin2015–201863rd Congress2018Gregorio Efraín Espadas Méndez2018–202164th Congress2021Lorena Méndez Denis2021–202465th Congress2024Rosa Margarita Graniel Zenteno2024–202766th 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 % 2018Andrés Manuel López Obrador Juntos Haremos Historia 74.59652024Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo Sigamos Haciendo Historia 76.7801
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