# 3rd federal electoral district of Nayarit

The 3rd federal electoral district of Nayarit (Distrito electoral federal 03 de Nayarit) is one of the 300 electoral districts into which Mexico is divided for elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of three such districts in the state of Nayarit.
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 first region.
Suspended in 1930, the 3rd district was restored as part of the 1977 political reforms and was contended again in the 1979 election; between 1930 and 1979, Nayarit comprised only two federal electoral districts.

## District territory

Under the National Electoral Institute's 2022 districting plan, which will be used for the 2024, 2027 and 2030 federal elections, the third district the state's ten southern municipalities:
* Ahuacatlán, Amatlán de Cañas, Bahía de Banderas, Compostela, Ixtlán del Río, Jala, San Pedro Lagunillas, Santa María del Oro, Xalisco and La Yesca.
Its head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and tallied, is the city of Compostela.

## Previous districting schemes
### 2017–2022

Between 2017 and 2022, the 3rd district had the same composition as in the 2022 plan.

### 2005–2017

Between 2005 and 2017 the district was located in the south of the state. It had the same composition as in the 2022 plan, with the addition of the municipality of San Blas. The head town was at Compostela.

### 1996–2005

Between 1996 and 2005 the district had the same composition as in 2005–2017, with the exception of the municipality of La Yesca, which belonged to the 2nd district.

### 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, Nayarit's seat allocation rose from two to three. The restored 3rd district had its head town at Compostela and it comprised ten of the state's municipalities.

## Deputies returned to Congress

Third federal electoral district of Nayarit :
| Election | Deputy | Term | Legislature |
| 1916 [es] | Juan Espinosa Bávara | 1916–1917 | Constituent Congress of Querétaro |
| 1917 | José Ahumada | 1917–1918 | 27th Congress |
| 1918 | Juan Espinosa Bávara | 1918–1920 | 28th Congress |
| 1920 | Ricardo A. Álvarez | 1920–1922 | 29th Congress |
| 1922 [es] | Apolonio R. Guzmán | 1922–1924 | 30th Congress |
| 1924 | José de la Peña | 1924–1926 | 31st Congress |
| 1926 | Pedro López S. | 1926–1928 | 32nd Congress |
| 1928 | Enrique Espinoza | 1928–1930 | 33rd Congress |
| The 3rd district was suspended between 1930 and 1979 |||||
| 1979 | Carlos Serafín Ramírez | 1979–1982 | 51st Congress |
| 1982 | Juan Medina Cervantes | 1982–1985 | 52nd Congress |
| 1985 | Enrique Medina Lomelí | 1985–1988 | 53rd Congress |
| 1988 | Olga López Castillo Rafael Mascorro Toro | 1988–1991 | 54th Congress |
| 1991 | José Ramón Navarro Quintero | 1991–1994 | 55th Congress |
| 1994 | Liberato Montenegro Villa | 1994–1997 | 56th Congress |
| 1997 | Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero | 1997–2000 | 57th Congress |
| 2000 | José Manuel Quintanilla Rentería | 2000–2003 | 58th Congress |
| 2003 | Raúl Mejía González | 2003–2006 | 59th Congress |
| 2006 | Sergio Sandoval Paredes | 2006–2009 | 60th Congress |
| 2009 | Ivideliza Reyes Hernández | 2009–2012 | 61st Congress |
| 2012 | Gloria Elizabeth Núñez Sánchez | 2012–2015 | 62nd Congress |
| 2015 | Jasmine María Bugarín Rodríguez | 2015–2018 | 63rd Congress |
| 2018 | Mirtha Iliana Villalvazo Amaya | 2018–2021 | 64th Congress |
| 2021 | Jorge Armando Ortiz Rodríguez | 2021–2024 | 65th Congress |
| 2024 | Jorge Armando Ortiz Rodríguez | 2024–2027 | 66th Congress |