List of Mexican state governors

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State governments by party (as of 2007)

The United Mexican States (or Mexico) is an union of 31 thirty one States and one Federal District (the Mexican Federal District, or Distrito Federal, which contains the capital, Mexico City), in a federal republic.

According to the 1917 Constitution, executive power in each of those states is deposited in a Governor (Gobernador), who is elected for a six-year term by direct, popular, secret universal suffrage.

The Head of Government of the Federal District is not considered a governorship, but the position is included on this list of governors for the sake of completeness.

As of 2007, the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) holds 17 governorships, the National Action Party (PAN) holds 8, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) holds 6, including the Federal District (Mexico City). The state of Yucatán is governed by Patricio Patrón Laviada, who was postulated by an unusual coalition including the PAN and the PRD.

State	Governor	Inauguration date Date elected	Party
Aguascalientes past governors	Luis Armando Reynoso	2004-12-01 2004-08-01	PAN
Baja California past governors	Eugenio Elorduy Walther	2001-11-01 2001-07-08	PAN
Baja California Sur past governors	Narciso Agúndez Montaño	2005-04-05 2005-02-06	PRD PT
Campeche past governors	Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez	2003-09-16	PRI
Chiapas past governors	Juan Sabines Guerrero	2006-12-08 2006-08-20 election article	PRD PT CON
Chihuahua past governors	José Reyes Baeza Terrazas	2004-10-03 2004-07-04 election article	PRI
Coahuila past governors	Humberto Moreira Valdés	2005-12-01 2005-09-25	PRI
Colima past governors	Silverio Cavazos	2005-05-05 2005-04-10 election article	PRI PVEM PT
Distrito Federal past heads of govt.	Marcelo Ebrard	2006-12-01 2006-07-02 election article	PRD PT CON
Durango past governors	Ismael Hernández	2004-09-15 2004-07-04 election article	PRI
Guanajuato past governors	Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez	2006-09-26 2006-07-02 election article	PAN
Guerrero past governors	Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca	2005-04-01 2005-02-06	PRD
Hidalgo past governors	Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong	2005-04-01 2005-02-20	PRI
Jalisco past governors	Emilio González Márquez	2007-03-01 2006-07-02 election article	PAN
México past governors	Enrique Peña Nieto	2005-09-15	PRI
Michoacán past governors	Lázaro Cárdenas Batel	2002-02-15	PRD
Morelos past governors	Marco Antonio Adame Castillo	2000-10-01	PAN
Nayarit past governors	Ney González Sánchez	2005-09-19 2005-07-03	PRI
Nuevo León past governors	José Natividad González Parás	2003-10-04 2003-07-06 election article	PRI PVEM and FC
Oaxaca past governors	Ulises Ruiz Ortiz	2004-12-01 2004-08-01 election article	PRI PVEM PT
Puebla past governors	Mario Marín Torres	2005-02-01 2004-11-14	PRI
Querétaro past governors	Francisco Garrido Patrón	2003-10-01	PAN
Quintana Roo past governors	Félix González Canto	2005-04-05 2005-02-06	PRI
San Luis Potosí past governors	Jesús Marcelo de los Santos	2003-09-26	PAN
Sinaloa past governors	Jesús Aguilar Padilla	2005-01-01 2004-11-14	PRI
Sonora past governors	José Eduardo Bours Castelo	2003-10-22	PRI
Tabasco past governors	Andrés Rafael Granier Melo	2007-01-01 2006-10-15 election article	PRI
Tamaulipas past governors	Eugenio Hernández Flores	2005-02-04 2004-11-14 election article	PRI
Tlaxcala past governors	Héctor Ortiz Ortiz	2005-01-14 2004-11-14	PAN PT
Veracruz past governors	Fidel Herrera Beltrán	2004-12-01 2004-09-05	PRI
Yucatán past governors	Patricio Patrón Laviada	2001-08-01	PAN PRD PT PVEM
Zacatecas past governors	Amalia García	2004-09-12 2004-07-04 election article	PRD