Jalisco state election, 2006

A local election was held in the Mexican state of Jalisco on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:

A new Governor of Jalisco to serve for a six-year term. Emilio González Márquez (PAN) won.
124 municipal presidents (mayors) to serve for a three-year term.
40 local deputies (20 by the first-past-the-post system and 20 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Congress of Jalisco.

[edit] Gubernatorial Election

Eight political parties participated in the 2006 Jalisco state election; two of them (the PRD and the PT) joined forces.

	Party/Alliance	Candidate
	National Action Party	Emilio González Márquez
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	Arturo Zamora Jiménez
	Party of the Democratic Revolution and Labor Party	Juan Enrique Ibarra Pedroza
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	Adalberto Velasco Antillón
	Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative	Olivia Candidate pending to be defined
	New Alliance	Candidate pending to be defined
	Convergence	Antonio Jaime Reynoso