The Third Federal Electoral District of Chihuahua (III Distrito Electoral Federal de Chihuahua) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts

Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico

The Federal Electoral Districts of Mexico are the 300 constituencies or electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of federal elections. Each district returns one Federal Deputy, who sits in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Federal Congress...

 into which Mexico

Mexico

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 is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of nine such districts in the state

States of Mexico

The United Mexican States is a federal republic formed by 32 federal entities .According to the Constitution of 1917, the states of the federation are free and sovereign. Each state has their own congress and constitution, while the Federal District has only limited autonomy with a local Congress...

 of Chihuahua.

It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress

Congress of Mexico

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 for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post

Plurality voting system

The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...

 system.

District territory

Under the 2005 districting scheme, Chihuahua's Third District covers the eastern portion of Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...

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The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the city of Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...

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1979–1996 district

As at present, the Third District covered a portion of the Ciudad Juárez urban area.

Deputies returned to Congress from this district

Parties

• XLVIII Legislature
  • 1970–1971: Mario Jáquez Provencio (PRI)
  • 1971–1973: Fernando Pacheco Parra (PRI)
• XLIX Legislature
  • 1973–1976:
• L Legislature
  • 1976–1979: José Reyes Estrada Aguirre
    José Reyes Estrada Aguirre
    José Reyes Estrada Aguirre was a Mexican politician, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party...
    
     (PRI)
• LI Legislature
  • 1979–1982: René Franco Barreno (PRI)
• LII Legislature
  • 1982–1985: Enrique Soto Izquierdo (PRI)
• LIII Legislature
  • 1985–1988: Héctor Mejía Gutiérrez (PAN)
• LIV Legislature
  • 1988–1991: Miguel Agustín Corral (PAN)
• LV Legislature
  • 1991–1994: Carlos Morales Villalobos (PRI)
• LVI Legislature
  LVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  -Members of the LVI Legislature:# Dip. Aburto Torres Taide# Dip. Acebo Salman Jesús Guillermo# Dip. Aceves del Olmo Carlos Humberto# Dip. Aceves Hernández Pablo Pedro# Dip. Acosta Ruelas Miguel# Dip. Aguiar Ortega Gabriel# Dip. Aguilar Martínez José Luis...
  
  
  • 1994–1997: Sergio Vázquez Olivas (PRI)
• LVII Legislature
  LVII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from 1997 to 2000....
  
  
  • 1997–2000: Saúl Flores Prieto (PAN)
• LVIII Legislature
  LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LVIII Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 1, 2000, to August 31, 2003. All members of the LVIII Legislature were elected in the elections of July 2000....
  
  
  • 2000–2003: Carlos Borunda Zaragoza (PAN)
• LIX Legislature
  LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LIX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met from September 2003 to August 2006. All members of the lower house of the Congress were elected in the elections of July 2003 while members of the upper house were elected in the elections of July 2000.-Chamber of Deputies:-Senate of...
  
  
  • 2003–2006: María Ávila Serna (PVEM)
• LX Legislature
  LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress
  The LX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico is meeting from September 1, 2006, to September 1, 2009. All members of both the lower and upper houses of Congress were elected in the elections of July 2006.-Senators by state:-Plurinominal Senators:...
  
  
  • 2006–2009: Cruz Pérez Cuéllar (PAN)

Results

2 July 2006 General Election: Third District of Chihuahua Mexican general election, 2006 A general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:*A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Vicente Fox .*500 members to serve for a...
Party or Alliance		| Candidate		Votes	Percentage
	National Action Party National Action Party (Mexico) The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...		Cruz Pérez Cuéllar	64,827
	Alliance for Mexico Alliance for Mexico The Alliance for Mexico is the name of two different multi-party electoral alliances in Mexico; one from 2000 and the other from 2006.-2000 elections:... (PRI, PVEM)		Antonio Candelas Alvarado	33,270
	Coalition for the Good of All Coalition for the Good of All The Coalition for the Good of All was a left-wing coalition created by the Party of the Democratic Revolution , Convergence and the Labor Party to support Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a candidate for the presidency of Mexico in the general election of 2006... (PRD, PT, Convergencia)		Juvicela Enríquez Romero	16,766
	New Alliance Party New Alliance Party (Mexico) The New Alliance Party is one of the newest political parties in Mexico.Its creation was proposed by the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación , the largest trade union in Latin America, led by Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial former general secretary of the Institutional...		Sergio Guillermo Armendariz Díaz	6,855
	Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative		Benjamín Quezada Martínez	2,973
	Unregistered candidates			193	0.15%
	Spoilt papers			1,927
Total				126,821
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral.