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state
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of
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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.
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 MartÃnez GarcÃa
Patricio MartÃnez GarcÃa (born March 17, 1948 Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). MartÃnez served as the Governor of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, from 1998 until 2 ...
of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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(PRI).
At the close of voting, exit polls were indicating a victory for
José Reyes Baeza
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...
of a
PRI-led alliance with a lead of ten percentage points. As the count progressed,
Javier Corral Jurado
Javier Corral Jurado (born 2 August 1966) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN), who served as Governor of Chihuahua from 2016 to 2021. He has served in politics since the early 1980s, including six terms betwe ...
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
*22
First-past-the-post
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deputies:
**17 for "Alianza con la Gente" (
PRI,
PVEM
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,
PT)
**5 for "Todos Somos Chihuahua" (
PAN,
PRD,
CD)
*11
Proportional representation
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deputies:
**3 for "Alianza con la Gente" (
PRI,
PVEM
The Ecological Green Party of Mexico ( es, Partido Verde Ecologista de México, , PVEM or PVE) is a green-conservative political party in Mexico. In the 2012 legislative elections, the party took 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (out of 500 ...
,
PT)
**8 for "Todos Somos Chihuahua" (
PAN,
PRD,
CD)
Municipalities
Preliminary results indicated the state's 67
municipalities
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
would be divided as follows:
*44: PRI (in alliance with PVEM and PT)
*21: PAN (in alliance with PRD and CD)
*1: PRD
*1: PVEM (
Manuel Benavides municipality)
The PAN/PRD alliance won a closely fought mayoral race in state capital
Chihuahua Chihuahua may refer to:
Places
*Chihuahua (state), a Mexican state
**Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state
**Chihuahua cheese, a type of cheese originating in the state
**Chihuahua City, the capital city of the state
**Chihuahua Mun ...
, 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
Ciudad Juárez ( ; ''Juarez City''. ) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is commonly referred to as Juárez and was known as El Paso del Norte (''The Pass of the North'') until 1888. Juárez is the seat of the Juà ...
fell to the PRI after 12 years of PAN rule.
On the same day
*
2004 Durango state election
*
2004 Zacatecas state election
See also
*
Politics of Mexico
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*
List of political parties in Mexico
This article lists political parties in Mexico.
Mexico has a multi-party system, which means that there are more than two dominant political parties.
Nationally, the three main political parties are the , the , and the . Other political parties ...
External links
Chihuahua State Electoral Institute
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2004 elections in Mexico
Chihuahua (state) elections
July 2004 events in Mexico