The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Guanajuato was held on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Incumbent Guanajuato Governor Juan Manuel Oliva of the National Action Party (PAN) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term in office. The Guanajuato gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections.
Miguel Márquez Márquez of PAN won the election. He was sworn into office on September 26, 2012.
José Natividad González Parás is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is a former federal deputy and former governor of Nuevo León (2003–2009) He is also married to Cristina Maiz
Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña is a Mexican politician who belongs to the National Action Party (PAN). He has been Municipal President of Guadalajara, Governor of Jalisco from 2001 to 2006 and from December 1, 2006, to January 2008 he served as Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.
Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares is a Mexican politician. He has served three terms in the Chamber of Deputies and was the governor of Veracruz from 2016 to 2018. Most recently he served for the space of a few hours as an alternate senator for the state of Veracruz. He has been a member of both the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from which he resigned, and the National Action Party (PAN), from which he was expelled.
Rodolfo Torre Cantú was a Mexican physician and politician. He held a number of public offices, such as Federal deputy, Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas and Director-general of the DIF in Ciudad Victoria. While running for governor of Tamaulipas as the candidate of the PRI, he was assassinated, apparently by agents of a drug cartel. Torre was murdered alongside a Tamaulipas lawmaker, Enrique Blackmore, on 28 June 2010 near Ciudad Victoria, which is approximately three hours south of Brownsville, Texas. Felipe Calderón promised a full investigation, saying, "the fight against drug cartels must continue". He further stated, "This was an act not only against a candidate of a political party but against democratic institutions, and it requires a united and firm response from all those who work for democracy." Torre's assassination is the "highest-profile case of political violence" in Mexico since the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
This is a list of events that happened in 2012 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Chiapas was held on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Incumbent Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term. The Chiapas gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections.
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Tabasco we held on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Incumbent Tabasco Governor Andrés Granier Melo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term in office. The Tabasco gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections.
The 2012 gubernatorial election in the Mexican state of Yucatán were held on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Incumbent Yucatán Governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is retiring due to mandatory term limits, which limit all Mexican state governors to one, six-year term in office. The Yucatán gubernatorial election coincided with the 2012 Mexican presidential and general elections.
Javier Gándara Magaña is a Mexican businessman and politician. He is a member of the National Action Party (PAN). He served as the municipal president of Hermosillo from 2009 to 2012 and was the PAN nominee in the 2015 Sonora gubernatorial election, where he was defeated by Claudia Pavlovich.
Luis Miguel Gerónimo Barbosa Huerta was a Mexican politician affiliated with Morena who served as Governor of Puebla from 2019 until his death in 2022. He was a senator of the LXII and LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress and also served as a federal deputy between 2000 and 2003. He was a candidate for the governorship of Puebla for the coalition Juntos Haremos Historia—formed by Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Social Encounter Party (PES)—for the state elections of 2018 and the 2019 special election.
Adán Augusto López Hernández is a Mexican politician, lawyer and notary public who currently serves as a Senator of the Republic and President of the Political Coordination Board (JUCOPO) in the Mexican Senate, a role he assumed on September 1, 2024. He previously served as governor of Tabasco from January 2019 until August 2021, date on which he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Hernández is a founding member of the political party MORENA and has formerly held office as senator and congressman in the Tabasco State Congress (2007-2009), the LXI Legislature of the Federal Chamber of Deputies (2009-2012) and the Senate in its LXIV Legislature (2012-2018).
Alejandro Tello Cristerna is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. He served as the Governor of Zacatecas from 2016 to 2021, and also represented the state as a senator during the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress and first four months of the LXIII Legislature.
Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) who served as the governor of Guanajuato from 2018 to 2024. He previously represented his state as a federal deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.
Miguel Márquez Márquez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN). He served as governor of Guanajuato from 2012 to 2018. Prior to his governorship, Marquez was mayor of Purísima del Rincón.
Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón, sometimes referred to by his nickname "El Bronco", is a Mexican politician. He served as the Governor of Nuevo León from 2015 to 2021 and was a candidate in the 2018 presidential election.
Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Governor of Tlaxcala from January 2017 to August 2021. He won the 2016 gubernatorial elections after previously serving in several administrative positions as well as being a deputy to the state congress.
On December 24, 2018, just ten days into her term as Governor of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo and her husband, Senator Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, died in a helicopter crash while en route from Puebla to Mexico City. The death of the Governor required the calling of a special gubernatorial election for 2 June 2019. This election was made simultaneous with special elections from five municipalities in the state whose initial 2018 elections had been nullified.
The 2021 Mexican local elections, held on June 6, 2021, saw voters electing fifteen governors for six-year terms, deputies for thirty state congresses, and officials for 1,910 municipalities. These elections took place concurrently with the country's federal legislative election. The elections, alongside the federal legislative election, were one of the most violent in the country's history, with 91 candidates assassinated prior to election day.
Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo is a Mexican lawyer, writer and politician. On 10 April 2023, she was selected as Secretary of Social and Human Development for the State of Guanajuato. She is currently serving as the Governor of Guanajuato after winning the 2024 elections, becoming the first woman to govern the state.
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