2024 Mexican local elections

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2024 Mexican local elections
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The 2024 Mexican local elections were held on 2 June 2024, during which voters elected eight governors for six-year terms, the Head of Government of Mexico City for a six-year term, deputies for thirty-one state congresses, and officials for 1,580 municipalities. [1] These elections took place concurrently with the country's general election. [2]

Contents

Prior to the elections, the country's two main coalitions, Juntos Hacemos Historia and Va por México , were succeeded by Sigamos Haciendo Historia and Fuerza y Corazón por México , which constituted the same parties as their predecessors. [3] [4] Of the governorships up for election, Sigamos Haciendo Historia currently holds six, Fuerza y Corazón por México holds two, and Citizens' Movement – which is participating without coalition support [5] – holds one. This was the first gubernatorial election where most of the seats were held by a MORENA-led coalition.

Incidents

Assassinations

Since January 2024, at least 27 aspiring candidates for political office have been killed, while at least 828 non-lethal attacks on candidates have been recorded. This has led to the government providing security guards to around 560 candidates and election officials. [6] Around 27,000 personnel of the Mexican Armed Forces and the National Guard have also been deployed to secure the electoral process. [7]

In Maravatio, Michoacán, Dagoberto García, the head of the MORENA party in the municipality and an aspiring candidate for mayor, disappeared in October 2023 and was found dead the following month. On 26 February 2024, Miguel Ángel Zavala, another aspiring mayoral candidate of MORENA in the town, was found fatally shot in his car. The following day, Armando Pérez Luna, PAN's mayoral candidate in the same town, was also found shot dead in his car. [8]

On 5 January, the PRI candidate for mayor of Suchiate, Chiapas, and the Citizens' Movement candidate for mayor in Armeria, Colima, were killed in separate attacks. In Guerrero, Alfredo González, a mayoral candidate in Atoyac de Álvarez, was killed in early March, followed by Tomás Morales, a prospective mayoral candidate of MORENA in Chilapa de Álvarez, on 12 March. [9]

In late March, the mayor of Churumuco, Michoacán, was shot dead in Morelia. [10] On 1 April, Bertha Gisela Gaytán, a mayoral candidate for MORENA, was shot dead while campaigning outside Celaya, Guanajuato, along with city council candidate Adrián Guerrero. [11] On 19 April, Noé Ramos Ferretiz, the joint PAN-PRI mayoral candidate for Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, was found fatally stabbed, while Alberto García, a mayoral candidate in San José Independencia, Oaxaca, was found beaten to death. [12] On 16 May, Lucero López Maza, a mayoral candidate in La Concordia, Chiapas, was killed along with five others during a gun attack on a campaign rally. [13] On 28 May, Ricardo Arizmendi, an alternate mayoral candidate in Cuautla, Morelos, was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles. [14] On 31 May, Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a mayoral candidate in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, was shot dead in a gun attack at a campaign rally that also injured his wife and another person. [6]

On 1 June, authorities ordered the suspension of voting in the municipalities of Pantelhó and Chicomuselo in Chiapas, citing the burning of election papers in the former by unknown individuals on 31 May and threats against poll workers by gang members. [15] Hours before polling opened on 2 June, Israel Delgado, a candidate for the municipal council of Cuitzeo, Michoacan, was shot dead by motorcycled gunmen. [16] While voting was underway, two people were killed in shootings at polling stations at Coyomeapan and Tlanalapan in Puebla. [17]

Disasters

On 22 May, a stage being used by Citizens' Movement mayoral candidate Lorenia Canavati  [ es ] for a campaign rally that was also attended by presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez was toppled by strong winds in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, killing nine people including a child, and injuring 121 others. Álvarez Máynez was unharmed. [18]

Gubernatorial races summary

StateIncumbentCandidates
GovernorParty
Chiapas Rutilio Escandón Morena Party (Mexico).svg
Guanajuato Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo PAN logo (Mexico).svg
Jalisco Enrique Alfaro Ramírez MC Party (Mexico).svg
Morelos Cuauhtémoc Blanco PES logo (Mexico).svg
Mexico City Martí Batres Morena Party (Mexico).svg
Puebla Sergio Salomón Céspedes Morena Party (Mexico).svg
Tabasco Carlos Manuel Merino Campos Morena Party (Mexico).svg
Veracruz Cuitláhuac García Jiménez Morena Party (Mexico).svg
Yucatán Mauricio Vila Dosal PAN logo (Mexico).svg

State legislative and municipal races

Aguascalientes

All 27 seats of the Congress of Aguascalientes are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 9 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 11 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Baja California

All 25 seats of the Congress of Baja California are up for election, where 17 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 8 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 7 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Baja California Sur

All 21 seats of the Congress of Baja California Sur are up for election, where 16 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 5 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 5 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Campeche

All 35 seats of the Congress of Campeche are up for election, where 21 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 13 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Chiapas

All 40 seats of the Congress of Chiapas are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 123 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Chihuahua

All 33 seats of the Congress of Chihuahua are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 11 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 67 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Coahuila

All positions of the state's 38 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Colima

All 25 seats of the Congress of Colima are up for election, where 16 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 9 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 10 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Durango

All 25 seats of the Congress of Durango are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. [1]

Guanajuato

All 36 seats of the Congress of Guanajuato are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 46 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Guerrero

All 46 seats of the Congress of Guerrero are up for election, where 28 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 18 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 84 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Hidalgo

All 30 seats of the Congress of Hidalgo are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 84 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Jalisco

All 38 seats of the Congress of Jalisco are up for election, where 20 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 18 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 125 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Michoacán

All 40 seats of the Congress of Michoacán are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 112 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Mexico City

All 66 seats of the Congress of Mexico City are up for election, where 33 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 33 through proportional representation. Additionally, the head of government and the entity's 16 borough mayors are up for election. [1]

State of Mexico

All 75 seats of the Congress of the State of Mexico are up for election, where 45 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 30 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 125 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Morelos

All 20 seats of the Congress of Morelos are up for election, where 12 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 8 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 33 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Nayarit

All 30 seats of the Congress of Nayarit are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 20 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Nuevo León

All 42 seats of the Congress of Nuevo León are up for election, where 26 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 51 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Oaxaca

All 42 seats of the Congress of Oaxaca are up for election, where 25 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 17 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 153 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Puebla

All 41 seats of the Congress of Puebla are up for election, where 26 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 15 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 217 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Querétaro

All 25 seats of the Legislature of Querétaro are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 18 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Quintana Roo

All 25 seats of the Congress of Quintana Roo are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. All positions of the state's 11 municipalities are up for election. [1]

San Luis Potosí

All 27 seats of the Congress of San Luis Potosí are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 58 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Sinaloa

All 40 seats of the Congress of Sinaloa are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 20 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Sonora

All 33 seats of the Congress of Sonora are up for election, where 21 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 72 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Tabasco

All 35 seats of the Congress of Tabasco are up for election, where 21 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 17 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Tamaulipas

All 36 seats of the Congress of Tamaulipas are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 43 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Tlaxcala

All 25 seats of the Congress of Tlaxcala are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 60 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Veracruz

All 50 seats of the Congress of Veracruz are up for election, where 30 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 20 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship is up for election. [1]

Yucatán

All 25 seats of the Congress of Yucatán are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 106 municipalities are up for election. [1]

Zacatecas

All 30 seats of the Congress of Zacatecas are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 58 municipalities are up for election. [1]

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