| Election Name: | 2006 Tabasco gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Mexico |
| Type: | Presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Year: | 2000 |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
| Election Date: | 15 October 2006 |
| Nominee1: | Andrés Granier Melo |
| Party1: | PRI |
| Popular Vote1: | 436,836 |
| Percentage1: | 51.77% |
| Nominee2: | César Raúl Ojeda |
| Party2: | PRI |
| Popular Vote2: | 355,669 |
| Percentage2: | 41.15% |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Manuel Andrade Diaz |
| Before Party: | PRI |
| After Election: | Andrés Granier Melo |
| After Party: | PRI |
The 2006 Tabasco state election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006 to elect the Governor of Tabasco, municipal presidents across the state, and local deputies in the state Congress.
The election took place months after the 2006 presidential election, in which PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador narrowly lost. The gubernatorial election was seen as a test for Obrador, who won Tabasco in the election, and the PRD. PRI candidate Andrés Rafael Granier Melo ultimately defeated PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta.
A local election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the local level:
Eight political parties participate in the 2006 Tabasco state election; two of them (the PRD and PT) joined forces. The election was won by Andrés Rafael Granier Melo of the PRI, who received 51.77% of the vote. PRD candidate César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta came in second place, with 41.15% of the vote.[1]
The election was seen as a key test for the PRD, which had nominated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 2006 presidential election held months prior.[2] Lopez Obrador had won the state comfortably in the presidential election, and campaigned for PRD gubernatorial candidate Ojeda. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 2006 teachers' strike in neighboring Oaxaca hindered the popularity of the left-wing PRD among voters.[3]
| Party/Alliance | Candidate |
|---|---|
| National Action Party (PAN) | Juan Francisco Cáceres de la Fuente |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) | Andrés Rafael Granier Melo |
| Alliance for the Good of All (PRD, PT) | César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) | Pascual Bellizzia Rosique |
| New Alliance (PANAL) | |
| Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (PASDC) | |
| Convergence (CD) | |