2021 Mexican local elections

Local elections were held in Mexico on June 6, 2021. Local elections were held for thirty state congresses, 1,900 town halls (ayuntamientos or municipalities), Mexico City borough mayors, municipal boards and municipal presidents.[1] Fifteen gubernatorial elections and federal legislative elections will be held the same day.

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Governors of 25 states and Mexico City signed an agreement with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to stay neutral during the elections, to allow the free will of the people, to reject money from organized crime, and to refrain from using official funds to support any particular candidates or parties.[2]

The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) canceled 49 candidates affiliated with MORENA for failing to report expenses related to their pre-electoral campaigns. The party was fined MXN $6,714,893.30. Two gubernatorial, 25 federal deputies, six local deputies, 12 municipal presidents, and four borough president candidates were affected. Two candidates for federal deputy and one for governor of Michoacan from the Michoacán a Redes Sociales Progresistas were also withdrawn. Fines were imposed on PRD (MXN $409,031), MC ($227,886), independents ($182,361), PES ($98,782), Redes Sociales Progresistas ($85,229),  PAN ($26,845), and PVEM ($1,476).[3]

The INE said that 300 polling places could not be installed in Chiapas, Michoacán or Oaxaca on June 6 due to social conditions that make voting dangerous or impossible.[4]

States

Aguascalientes

27 deputies, 11 municipalities[1]

Baja California

Governor, 25 deputies, 5 municipalities[1]

Nearly all the current member of the Congress of Baja California are seeking reelection. Five have been granted leave to seek other positions:[5]

Gubnatorial candidates:

Municipal president:

Baja California Sur

Governor, 21 deputies, 5 municipalities[1]

Governor: Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío, MORENA[6]

Campeche

Governor, 25 deputies, 13 municipalities, 22 municipal juntas[1]

Governor: Layda Elena Sansores, MORENA[6] List of presidents of Campeche Municipality: Biby Karen Rabelo, MC[6]

Chiapas

40 deputies, 124 municipalities[1]

Mayoral candidates:

Chihuahua

Governor, 33 deputies, 67 municipalities, 67 municipality receiverships[1]

Governor of Chihuahua: María Eugenia Campos Galván  PAN[6]

Mayors:

Coahuila
Main article: 2021 Coahuila elections

38 municipalities[1]

Colima

Governor, 25 deputies, 10 municipalities[1]

Governor of Colima: Indira Vizcaíno Silva MORENA[6]

Durango

25 deputies[1]

Guanajuato

36 deputies, 46 municipalities[1]

Mayors:

  • León – Ricardo Sheffield ( MORENA), former mayor of León ( PAN 2009–2012) and candidate for governor in 2018( MORENA)[8]

Alderman:

  • Apaseo el Grande: – Alejandro Galicia Juárez PRD, murdered on March 31, 2021. Mayor Juan Ignacio de la Cruz Ávila is seriously injured.[10]

Guerrero

Governor, 46 deputies, 80 municipalities[1]

List of governors of Guerrero: Evelyn Salgado MORENA was declared the winner with 44% of the vote.[6]  PRI and PRD called for a recount.[11]

Mayoral candidates: Acapulco (municipality): Abelina López MORENA[6]

Hidalgo

30 deputies[1]

Jalisco

38 deputies, 125 municipalities[1]

Mayors:

Congress of Jalisco:

For the Congress of Jalisco, 38 deputies will be chosen. To choose the deputies, the state is divided into 20 districts, of which 1 deputy will be chosen from each district using simple majority, and the other 18 deputies will be chosen using proportional representation. The party Movimiento Ciudadano won in 7 districts; Juntos Hacemos Historia which is the coalition of the MORENA, PT, PVEM won in 7 districts; and the coalition between  PAN,  PRI, and the PRD won in 6 districts.

Michoacán

Governor, 40 deputies, 112 municipalities[1]

Organized crime and indigenous groups block the installion of 100 of the 6,251 polling places in the state. A man was killed in Buenavista on June 6 in what appears to be a territorial dispute between drug cartels and not election-related.[13]

Governor of Michoacán: Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla (MRN party) was declared the winner with 41.5% of the vote. Carlos Herrera Tello ( PRD) was second with 39%.[6]

Mexico City

66 deputies and 16 borough mayors (alcaldias):[1]

The Va por México coalition of  PAN,  PRI, PRD surprisingly won the nine boroughs in the western half of the city. Juntos Hacemos Historia ( MORENA, PT, PVEM) won the seven boroughs in the eastern half of the city.

Winning candidates for borough mayor:

Other candidates for borough mayor:

Mexico State

75 deputies, 125 municipalities[1]

Several communities reported irregularities and violence on election day.[17]

Mayoral elections:

  • Amecameca: Two people were injured during a shooting incident that interrupted voting for only a few minutes.[18]
  • Metepec: Twenty men destroyed a polling place and hit voters, but voting continued later.[19]
  • Naucalpan: A fake grenade briefly caused panic.[20]
  • Nextlalpan: The Instituto Electoral del Estado de México (IEEM) says that irregularities and violence on election day make it impossible to give a preliminary vote count (PREP), it may be necessary to hold another election.  PRI says that vandals entered the candidate's house and burned it, in addition to sexually assaulting the candidate, and they destroyed voting material. MORENA says the allegation are false.[21]
  • Valle de Chalco: Two polling stations were attacked by armed gunment, causing their early closure.[22]
  • Tepotzotlán: Ángeles Zuppa Villegas MC, daughter of three-time mayor Ángel Zuppa Núñez.[23]

Alderman:

  • Atizapán de Zaragoza: César Basilio Campos MORENA is photographed with a gun reserved for the army. He is also known for driving a sports car worth ten times his salary.[24]

Morelos

20 deputies, 33 municipalities[1]

Municipal presidencies[25] ( PES and Panal:

Nayarit

Governor, 30 deputies, 20 municipalities, 138 councilmen (regidurías)[1]

Lorenzo Córdova of the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) warned that Governor Antonio Echevarría ( PAN) said on February 26, 2021, that the state does not have the MXN $200 million needed to organize the elections. Córdova said on March 5 that Echevarría was lying to evade his responsibilities.[8]

Nuevo León

Governor, 42 deputies, 51 municipalities[1]

Mayoral candidates:

Local deputies:

  • District 1 – Mayco Fabián Tapia Quiñones (Fuerza por Mexico); assassinated during robbery attempt on March 24, 2021[29]

Oaxaca

 PRI,  PAN, and PRD agree on candidates for 80 of the 153 municipalities and for 25 of the 42 local deputies.[30]

Polling places could not be installed on June 6 due to social-political conflicts in seven communities. 800 ballots were stolen in “El Ocote” y San José Llano Grande, Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz.[31]

Puebla

41 deputies, 217 municipalities[1]

Querétaro

Governor, 25 deputies, 18 municipalities[1]

Quintana Roo

11 municipalities[1]

Mayors seeking reelection:[5]

Juan Carrillo, mayor of Isla Mujeres, was granted leave to run for the federal Chamber of Deputies.[5]

Results in municipalities:

  • Solidaridad (Playa del Carmen): A recount was ordered at the request of Juntos Haremos Historia. Preliminary results show Liliana Campos (Va por Mexico) won with 24,460 votes defeated Laura Beristain Navarrete (Juntos Haremos Historia), who had 20,889 votes.[32]

San Luis Potosí

Governor, 27 deputies, 58 municipalities[1]

Mayoral candidates:

Alderman:

  • Tamuín – Claudio Vega Roque MC. A shooting broke out as Vega Roque was filming a pro-campaign video on March 31. One injured.[33]

Sinaloa

Governor, 40 deputies, 18 municipalities[1]

Sonora

Governor, 33 deputies, 72 municipalities[1]

Municipal presidents:

Tabasco

35 deputies, 17 municipalities[1]

Mayoral candidates:[5]

Tamaulipas

36 deputies, 43 municipalities[1]

Tlaxcala

Governor, 25 deputies, 60 municipalities, 299 community presidents[1]

Veracruz

50 deputies, 212 municipalities[1]

Mayors:

  • La Perla – Melquiades Vázquez Lucas (″El Pantera″)  PRI; assassinated on March 4, 2021[9]

Yucatan

25 deputies, 106 municipalities[1]

Zacatecas

Governor, 30 deputies, 58 municipalities[1]

Absentee voting

Mexican citizens from eleven states who live overseas can vote electronically. Most of the elections are for governor, but those from Mexico City and Guerrero will be able to vote for Diputado Migrante and people from Jalisco can vote for Diputado por Representación de Proporcional.[35] INE approved a pilot program allowing prison inmates who are held in protective custody in Hermosillo (District 4, Sonora); Villa Comaltitlán, Chiapas; Coatlán del Río (District 4 Jojutla, Morelos); and Buena Vista Tomatlán (District 12 Apatzingán, Michoacán) to vote absentee ballot from May 17–19, 2021. The present order covers only male inmates, but it may be extended to females.[36]

Organized crime and politics

Several different criminal gangs implicated in drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fuel theft have a great deal of political influence in some states.[37] The Sinaloa Cartel exercises considerable control in the northwest while the Jalisco New Generation Cartel′s (CJNG) influence is in the west including Michoacan and Guerrero. The Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas are powerful in the northeast.[37]

In the past, drug cartels have influenced campaigns by supporting candidates and even running some of their own member or sympathizers as candidates for office[37] such as Lucero Sánchez López, former federal deputy from Sinaloa who was also Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán′s lover.[38] Election-related violence is of particular concern in Michoacan, not only because of the aforementioned drug cartels but also because of armed community police who often act as vigilantes.[38]

Ignacio Sánchez Cordero, who sought the candidacy of MORENA and PVEM for mayor of Puerto Morelos Municipality in Quintana Roo, was assassinated on February 24.[39] At least 64 murders related to the political process occurred between September 2020 and March 2021, and Security Secretary (SSP) Rosa Icela Rodríguez promised more protection from the “crime party.”[40]

As of March 18, 55 candidates and precandidates had been murdered. 80% of the cases involved individuals who belonged to a party that did not control the state.[41] Between September 7, 2020, and June 5, 2021, 91 candidates were assassinated.[42]

Irregularities and election day violence

INE canceled the registration of 19 candidates of MORENA for failure to report pre-campaign expenses.[43]

The FGR (Federal Elections Prosecutor) is investigating about 80 complaints about Internet celebrities (Spanish: influencers) who illegally used social media to sway votes toward the PVEM.[44]

State of Mexico

Daniel Serrano, candidate ( MORENA) for municipal president in Cuautitlán Izcalli, complained about vote buying on election day.[45] The Instituto Electoral del Estado de México (IEEM) says that irregularities and violence on election day in Nextlalpan, State of Mexico, make it impossible to give a preliminary vote count (PREP), it may be necessary to hold another election.  PRI says that vandals entered the candidate's house and burned it, in addition to sexually assaulting the candidate, and they destroyed voting material. MORENA says the allegation are false.[21]

Ricardo Almaraz MC, candidate for supplementary receiver in Tepotzotlán, State of Mexico, was shot and killed the day after the election, June 7.[23]

Violence was reported in Amecameca,[18] Metepec,[19] Naucalpan,[20] Nextlalpan,[21] and Valle de Chalco.[22]

Scheduled results

Counting for preliminary results (PREP) began on June 6, rapid counting on June 7, and certification of final results are due on August 23, 2021.[1]

See also

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