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SINALOA — Governor
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SINALOA — Governor

Municipal and governor votes plus 26 state legislative series are registered; 21 legislative histories pass the recovered district checks. Some 1,365 district requests were blocked. Sinaloa’s August 2026 interim appointment is recorded as an indirect legislative decision, with popular CI withheld. Third governor cycles, full seats, some municipal registers, supplementary polls and customary/community elections remain incomplete.

Election expectation2027-06-06
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles2 of 3
Seat comparison cycles0 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval — points; earlier interval 24.4 points; two-interval mean — points.

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Seven exact standalone INE party labels. Joint coalition combinations, independents and other parties remain Other, without allocating coalition votes. This coarse grouped comparison can conceal coalition-member shifts and requires the stated geographic/event review. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Current government and control: Graciela Domínguez Nava (Morena), interim governor elected by Congress on 25 August 2026; primary appointment report and current directory. Current officeholder source. Primary legislative selection; party from current directory Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

INE result distributions kept separate. Certified seats, supplementary elections, coalition and boundary audit remain. The 25 August 2026 legislative selection is included in the latest actual sequence; popular-vote CI is withheld.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2026-08-25 · Legislative approval of interim governor

Coverage: Complete legislative approval tally; not a popular electoral ballot

Basis: Congress approved the nominee 31 to 6. Opposition to the nominee is not treated as votes for another gubernatorial candidate. Unreported attendance/abstentions are not inferred.

Indirect legislative decision: {"nominee": "Graciela Domínguez Nava", "votes_for": 31, "votes_against": 6, "recorded_votes": 37}. This is not an ordinary popular-vote comparison.

No individually verified complete vote vector is available in this record.

Result source

2021 · ordinary catalogued year; supplementary event validation pending

Coverage: Official INE retrospective vote table; certified seats and event sequence not yet reconciled

Basis: Valid candidate/list votes; largest reported territorial segment when multiple segments exist

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
CC_PAS_MORENA624,51657.97%—
C_PAN_PRI_PRD358,30533.26%—
MC31,8972.96%—
PT19,9821.85%—
FXM12,3961.15%—
PES11,2851.05%—
PVEM10,5360.98%—
RSP8,3860.78%—

Result source

2016 · ordinary catalogued year; supplementary event validation pending

Coverage: Official INE retrospective vote table; certified seats and event sequence not yet reconciled

Basis: Valid candidate/list votes; largest reported territorial segment when multiple segments exist

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PRI_PVEM_PANAL427,88742.92%—
MC_PAS267,02926.78%—
PAN180,47918.10%—
MORENA39,9124.00%—
CAND_IND137,0173.71%—
PRD22,4042.25%—
ES12,5551.26%—
PT9,6590.97%—

Result source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record MX-G-25.