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The Third Federal Electoral District of Yucatán (III Distrito Electoral Federal de Yucatán) is one of the 300 Electoral Districts into which Mexico is divided for the purpose of elections to the federal Chamber of Deputies and one of five such districts in the state of Yucatán.
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It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative period, by means of the first past the post system.
District territory
Under the 2005 districting scheme, the district covers the north-western portion of the municipality of Mérida.
The district's head town (cabecera distrital), where results from individual polling stations are gathered together and collated, is the state capital, the city of Mérida.
1996–2005 district
Between 1996 and 2005, Yucatán's Third District covered the western portion of the Mérida Municipality.