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Article: NATIONAL ACTION PARTY RETAINS BAJA CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNORSHIP & WINS MAYORAL SEATS IN THE STATE'S TWO LARGEST CITIES
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- August 9, 1995
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In the Aug. 6 state elections in Baja California, the National Action Party (PAN) won an overwhelming victory at the polls, allowing the party to retain the governor's seat. PAN also won a majority of the state's legislative posts, and gained the mayoral seats in the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali.
The PAN has won three of the four gubernatorial seats contested so far this year. In early 1995, PAN candidates won races in Jalisco and Guanajuato (see SourceMex, 02/15/95 and 05/31/95). A third election in Yucatan state was won by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but the race was close enough for the PAN to claim fraud (see SourceMex, 05/31/95). Outgoing ...