2004 Chihuahua state election

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The Mexican state of Chihuahua held an election on Sunday, 4 July 2004. At stake was the office of the Chihuahua State Governor, all 33 members of the unicameral Chihuahua State Congress, and 67 mayors and municipal councils.

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Turnout was around 46% of the 2,254,234 chihuahuenses eligible to vote.

Governor

At the time of the election, the sitting governor was Patricio Martínez García of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

CandidatePartyVotes%
José Reyes Baeza "Alianza con la Gente"
(PRI/PVEM/PT)
 561,106  56.48% 
  Javier Corral Jurado "Todos Somos Chihuahua"
(PAN/PRD/CD)
 411,162  41.38% 
 Nο registered candidates 140  0.01% 
 Null votes 21,103  2.12% 
Totals  993,511  100.00% 

At the close of voting, exit polls were indicating a victory for José Reyes Baeza of a PRI-led alliance with a lead of ten percentage points. As the count progressed, Javier Corral Jurado of the PAN representing an unusual alliance of his party and the left-leaning PRD conceded the election at around 23h00 local time.

State congress

Municipalities

Preliminary results indicated the state's 67 municipalities would be divided as follows:

The PAN/PRD alliance won a closely fought mayoral race in state capital Chihuahua, previously governed by the PRI. In a give-and-take action between the state's two largest cities, borderland industrial and commercial powerhouse Ciudad Juárez fell to the PRI after 12 years of PAN rule.

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