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Office briefing

CHIHUAHUA — Governor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · CHIHUAHUA / CHIHUAHUA · other · GovernorMX-G-8

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INE result distributions kept separate. Certified seats, supplementary elections, coalition and boundary audit remain.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
CHIHUAHUA / CHIHUAHUA
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-f7f9ee1d18ba05e75c94afa7
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-06-06 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN_PRD42.4%
  • PT_MORENA_NACH32.8%
  • MC11.5%
  • PRI7.1%
  • PVEM1.5%
  • PES1.1%
  • RSP0.3%
  • FXM0.0%
Results for event-74cd63de7d37f763866b90c2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_PRDmexico/S3a28afb9db/2021569,92142.4%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_NACHmexico/S3a28afb9db/2021440,67232.8%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S3a28afb9db/2021154,05011.5%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S3a28afb9db/202195,1697.1%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S3a28afb9db/202120,3641.5%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S3a28afb9db/202114,1831.1%UnknownRecorded
RSPmexico/S3a28afb9db/20214,5330.3%UnknownRecorded
FXMmexico/S3a28afb9db/20210 (recorded zero)0% (recorded zero)UnknownRecorded

2016

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN39.7%
  • PRI_PVEM_PT_PANAL30.7%
  • CAND_IND118.6%
  • MC2.7%
  • MORENA2.4%
  • PRD2.2%
Results for event-605e694d158b4adc535e7a46
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PANmexico/S079aa1558c/2016508,07739.7%UnknownRecorded
PRI_PVEM_PT_PANALmexico/S079aa1558c/2016393,02030.7%UnknownRecorded
CAND_IND1mexico/S079aa1558c/2016237,84918.6%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S079aa1558c/201634,6442.7%UnknownRecorded
MORENAmexico/S079aa1558c/201630,2112.4%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/S079aa1558c/201628,6632.2%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Withheld

Unknown0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Comparison unavailable · INE result distributions kept separate. Certified seats, supplementary elections, coalition and boundary audit remain.

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=9.95071183747379, oldest_gap=null, previous_gap=9.335526230380765

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46percentage 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

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,7.3269371125543925,0,0,1.5677977845733133,11.860108461673487,0,79.2451566411988],[41.22449012709499,0,2.32566630749458,0,0,2.810954315906996,2.451268353477262,51.187620896026175],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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

Comparison status: Previous interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,7.3269371125543925,0,0,1.5677977845733133,11.860108461673487,0,79.2451566411988],[41.22449012709499,0,2.32566630749458,0,0,2.810954315906996,2.451268353477262,51.187620896026175],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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

Comparison status: Both intervals mean · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0,7.3269371125543925,0,0,1.5677977845733133,11.860108461673487,0,79.2451566411988],[41.22449012709499,0,2.32566630749458,0,0,2.810954315906996,2.451268353477262,51.187620896026175],null]

Source-reported control: María Eugenia Campos Galván (Partido Acción Nacional); Secondary current-directory snapshot; primary verification pending; retrieved 12 Sep 2026. Secondary current-directory snapshot; primary verification pending

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

No open research issues attached to this office.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “CHIHUAHUA — Governor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-G-8. Sources: mexico--url-6b76f0532b608b4c3f237341, mexico--S3a28afb9db, mexico--S079aa1558c.