A local election was held in the

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Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level: *A new

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to serve for a six-year term. * 46 municipal presidents (mayors) to serve for a three-year term. *36 local deputies (22 by the

first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

system and 14 by

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...

) to serve for a three-year term in the

Congress of Guanajuato The Congress of the State of Guanajuato ( es, Congreso del Estado de Guanajuato) is the legislative branch of the government of the List of states of Mexico, State of Guanajuato. The Congress is the governmental deliberative assembly, deliberati ...

Gubernatorial Election

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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 ...

) , , Miguel Ángel Chico Herrera , - , , Alliance PRD– PT , , Ricardo García Oseguera , - , ,

Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative The Social Democratic Party ( es, Partido Socialdemócrata, PSD) was a short-lived Mexican political party. History The party's first name was Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (''Partido Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina'') ...

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External links

Electoral Institute of Guanajuato website

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