Preliminary results of state elections, 4 July 2010

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

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