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2006 Tabasco state election

Field	Value
election_name	2006 Tabasco gubernatorial election
country	Mexico
type	Presidential
ongoing	no
previous_year	2000
next_year	2012
election_date	15 October 2006
nominee1	Andrés Granier Melo
party1	PRI
popular_vote1	436,836
percentage1	51.77%
nominee2	César Raúl Ojeda
party2	PRI
popular_vote2	355,669
percentage2	41.15%
title	Governor
before_election	Manuel Andrade Diaz
before_party	PRI
after_election	Andrés Granier Melo
after_party	PRI

The 2006 Tabasco state election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006 to elect the Governor of Tabasco, municipal presidents across the state, and local deputies in the state Congress.

The election took place months after the 2006 presidential election, in which PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador narrowly lost. The gubernatorial election was seen as a test for Obrador, who won Tabasco in the election, and the PRD. PRI candidate Andrés Rafael Granier Melo ultimately defeated PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta.

Offices contested

A local election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:

A new Governor of Tabasco to serve for a six-year term.
17 municipal presidents (mayors) to serve for a three-year term.
Local deputies to serve for a three-year term in the Congress of Tabasco.

Gubernatorial election

Eight political parties participate in the 2006 Tabasco state election; two of them (the PRD and PT) joined forces. The election was won by Andrés Rafael Granier Melo of the PRI, who received 51.77% of the vote. PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta came in second place, with 41.15% of the vote.

PRD campaign

The election was seen as a key test for the PRD, which had nominated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 2006 presidential election held months prior. Lopez Obrador had won the state comfortably in the presidential election, and campaigned for PRD gubernatorial candidate Ojeda. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 2006 teachers' strike in neighboring Oaxaca hindered the popularity of the left-wing PRD among voters.

Party/Alliance	Candidate
	National Action Party (PAN)		Juan Francisco Cáceres de la Fuente
	Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)		Andrés Rafael Granier Melo
	Alliance for the Good of All (PRD, PT)		César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM)		Pascual Bellizzia Rosique
	New Alliance (PANAL)
	Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (PASDC)
	Convergence (CD)

Notes

References

(2006). "Estadística Electoral 2006".
(2006-10-16). "Mexican leftists claim vote fraud in gubernatorial election".
Enriquez, Sam. (2006-10-15). "Mexican Leftists Watching Tabasco Election".

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