List of Mexican state governors

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The United Mexican States (or Mexico) is a union of 31 thirty one States and one Federal District (the Mexican Federal District, or Distrito Federal (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 was governed by Patricio Patrón Laviada, who was postulated by an unusual coalition including the conservative PAN and the social democratic PRD.

State	Picture	Governor	Inauguration date Date elected	Party	in coalition with
Aguascalientes past governors		Luis Armando Reynoso	2004-12-01 2004-08-01	PAN
Baja California past governors		José Guadalupe Osuna Millán	2007-11-01 2007-08-05	PAN	PNA
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		Leonel Godoy Rangel	2008-02-15	PRD
Morelos past governors		Marco Antonio Adame Castillo	2006-10-01	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		Ivonne Ortega Pacheco	2007-08-01  2007-20-05 election article	PRI	PVEM
Zacatecas past governors		Amalia García	2004-09-12  2004-07-04 election article	PRD