2006 Tabasco state election explained

Election Name:2006 Tabasco gubernatorial election
Country:Mexico
Type:Presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Year:2000
Next Year:2012
Election Date:15 October 2006
Nominee1:Andrés Granier Melo
Party1:PRI
Popular Vote1:436,836
Percentage1:51.77%
Nominee2:César Raúl Ojeda
Party2:PRI
Popular Vote2:355,669
Percentage2:41.15%
Governor
Before Election:Manuel Andrade Diaz
Before Party:PRI
After Election:Andrés Granier Melo
After Party:PRI

The 2006 Tabasco state election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006 to elect the Governor of Tabasco, municipal presidents across the state, and local deputies in the state Congress.

The election took place months after the 2006 presidential election, in which PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador narrowly lost. The gubernatorial election was seen as a test for Obrador, who won Tabasco in the election, and the PRD. PRI candidate Andrés Rafael Granier Melo ultimately defeated PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta.

Offices contested

A local election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:

Gubernatorial election

Eight political parties participate in the 2006 Tabasco state election; two of them (the PRD and PT) joined forces. The election was won by Andrés Rafael Granier Melo of the PRI, who received 51.77% of the vote. PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta came in second place, with 41.15% of the vote.[1]

PRD campaign

The election was seen as a key test for the PRD, which had nominated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 2006 presidential election held months prior.[2] Lopez Obrador had won the state comfortably in the presidential election, and campaigned for PRD gubernatorial candidate Ojeda. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 2006 teachers' strike in neighboring Oaxaca hindered the popularity of the left-wing PRD among voters.[3]

Party/AllianceCandidate
National Action Party (PAN)Juan Francisco Cáceres de la Fuente
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)Andrés Rafael Granier Melo
Alliance for the Good of All (PRD, PT)César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM)Pascual Bellizzia Rosique
New Alliance (PANAL)
Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (PASDC)
Convergence (CD)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2006 . Estadística Electoral 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304215914/https://www.iepct.org.mx/docs/estadistica_electoral_2006.pdf . 2016-03-04 . 2024-06-23 . Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana de Tabasco.
  2. Web site: 2006-10-16 . Mexican leftists claim vote fraud in gubernatorial election . 2024-06-23 . The Denver Post . en-US.
  3. Web site: Enriquez . Sam . 2006-10-15 . Mexican Leftists Watching Tabasco Election . 2024-06-23 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.