Politics: Municipal Election Results

MEXICO - Report 24 Jun 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary In addition to electing a new Chamber of Deputies and nine state governors, on June 7 Mexican voters elected new authorities in slightly more than 1,000 municipalities. This election confirmed that a party’s victory in a gubernatorial contest is by no means a guarantee of carrying the state’s most important municipalities. They also showed that urban municipalities with the greatest economic weight have the most demanding electorates, a fact reflected in their high rate of political alternation. In this latest contest the major parties managed to hold on to some of their t...

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