Manila's_3rd_congressional_district
Manila's 3rd congressional district
Filipino congressional district
Manila's 3rd congressional district is one of the six congressional districts of the Philippines in the city of Manila. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1949.[3] The district consists of barangays 268 to 394 in the northern Manila districts of Binondo, Quiapo, San Nicolas and Santa Cruz bordering Quezon City and the southern Caloocan and facing the Manila Bay from the San Nicolas side.[4] It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Joel R. Chua of Aksyon Demokratiko and Asenso Manileño.[5]
From 1949 to 1972, the district encompassed the eastern Manila districts of Sampaloc, which included the present-day Santa Mesa, and San Miguel.[6] After the restoration of the Congress in 1987, the aforementioned districts were reapportioned to the fourth and sixth districts, respectively. As a result, the third district's jurisdiction currently includes the four northern Manila districts mentioned above.[4]