Jul 052010
Twelve states held elections for state governor Sunday 4 July 2010.
The preliminary results show that PRI (in association with various smaller parties) won 9 state governorships, and that PAN-PRD alliance won three.
Mexico’s political parties in order of year of foundation:
- PRI Partido Revolucionario Insititucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party), founded 1929
- PAN Partido Acción Nacional (National Action Party), founded 1939
- PRD Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Party of the Democratic Revolution), founded, 1988
- PT Partido de Trabajo (Labor Party), founded 1990
- PVEM Partido Verde Ecologísta de México (Mexico’s Green Party), founded 1991
- Convergencia por la Democracia (Convergence for Democracy), founded 1999
- PRV Partido Revolucionario Veracruzano (Veracruz Revolutionary Party), founded 2004
- Partido Nueva Allianza (New Alliance Party), founded 2005 by the National Union of Educational Workers
Results state-by-state, with name of governor-elect and parties represented
- Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre, PRI-PVEM-Nueva Alianza coalition.
- Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle, PAN-PRD-Nueva Alianza-Convergencia coalition
- Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo, PRI-PVEM-Nueva Alianza coalition
- Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera, PRI
- Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú, PRI-PVEM-Nueva Alianza coalition (Torre Cantú is the brother of Rodolfo Torre Cantú, the PRI party candidate for governor who was assassinated a week before the election)
- Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa, PRI-PVEM-PRV coalition
- Sinaloa, Mario López Valdez, PAN-PRD-PT-Convergencia
- Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur PRI- PVEM
- Oaxaca: Gabino Cué, PAN-PRD-PT-Convergencia.
- Zacatecas: Alonso Reyes, PRI-PVEM.
- Chihuahua: César Duarte, PRI
- Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera, PRI-PVEM-Nueva Alianza coalition
Chapter 12 of Geo-Mexico: the geography and dynamics of modern Mexico takes a close look at Mexico’s political patterns. Buy your copy today, so you have a handy guide to the “back story” behind Mexico’s current affairs.
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