Governor of Campeche explained

Post:	Governor
Body:	Campeche
Native Name:	Spanish; Castilian: Gobernador de Campeche
Insignia:	Coat of arms of Campeche.svg
Insigniasize:	75px
Member Of:	CONAGO
Incumbent:	Layda Sansores
Incumbentsince:	September 15, 2021
Preceded By:	Carlos Miguel Aysa González
Termlength:	6 years, non-renewable
Inaugural:	Pablo García Montilla

The governor of Campeche, officially Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche (es|Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Campeche), is in charge the Executive branch of the State Government.

Term

Governors are elected to serve for 6 years and they can not hold the title under any circumstance ever again. The governor takes office on the 15th day of September of the same electoral year and ends on September 14 six years after.

List of governors

According to the historical records of the State,^[1] the following is the list of individuals who have held the office of governor since statehood:

Nineteenth century

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Took office	Name	Governorship	Left office	Time in office		Political party	Notes
Portrait	Name	Governorship	Term of office			Political party	Notes
1		Pablo García Montilla	Constitutional	26 March 1862	21 January 1864
1		Pablo García Montilla	Constitutional	15 December 1867	1 June 1870
2		Tomás Anzar Barbachano	Provisional	2 June 1870	19 July 1870
3		Salvador Dondé	Interim	19 Julio 1870	5 January 1871
4			Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	6 January 1871	15 September 1871
			Constitutional	16 September 1871	15 September 1875
			Constitutional	16 September 1875	4 January 1877
Elected under the Porfiriato
5		Juan B. Zamudio	Interim	5 January 1877	28 April 1877
6		Marcelino Castilla	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	29 April 1877	15 September 1879
6		Marcelino Castilla	Constitutional	16 September 1879	18 October 1880
-		Prudencio Pérez Rosado	Interim	18 October 1880	30 November 1880			President of the State Superior Court of Justice
7		Arturo Shiels	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	1 December 1880	15 September 1883
-			Constitutional	16 September 1883	15 November 1883
8		Juan Montalvo Baranda	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	16 November 1883	15 September 1887
9		Juan Trinidad Ferrer	Constitutional	16 September 1887	24 April 1888
10		Onecíforo Durán	Interim	25 April 1888	15 September 1888
11		Joaquín Z. Kerlegand Flores	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	16 September 1888	15 September 1891
12		Leocadio Preve	Constitutional	16 September 1891	15 September 1895
-		Juan Montalvo Baranda	Constitutional	16 September 1895	19 November 1898			Died in office^[2]
13		Carlos Gutiérrez Mac-Gregor	Interim	19 November 1898	15 September de 1899
13		Carlos Gutiérrez Mac-Gregor	Constitutional	16 September 1899	2 de April 1902

Twentieth century

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Took office	Name	Governorship	Left office	Time in office		Political party	Notes
Portrait	Name	Governorship	Term of office			Political party	Notes
14		José Castellot	Interim	2 April 1902	24 May 1902		<	-- Party -->	<	-- notes -->
14		José Castellot	Constitutional	25 May 1902	9 August 1902		<		<
15		Luis García Mézquita	Interim	9 August 1902	15 September 1903		<	-- Party -->	Died in office^[3]
15		Luis García Mézquita	Constitutional	16 September 1903	15 June 1905		<		Died in office^[3]
-		José A. Ruz	Acting Governor	15 June 1905	21 June 1905
16		Tomás Aznar y Cano	Interim	21 June 1905	2 September 1905		<	-- Party -->	<	-- notes -->
			Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	3 September 1905	15 September 1907
			Constitutional	16 September 1907	9 August 1910
17		José García Gual	Interim	9 August 1910	25 May 1911
Elected during the Mexican Revolution
18		Gustavo Suzarte Campos	Interim	25 May 1911	15 June 1911
19		Román Sabas Flores	Interim	16 June 1911	27 June 1911
20		Urbano Espinoza	Interim	27 June 1911	15 September 1911
21		Manuel Castilla Brito	Constitutional	16 September 1911	11 June 1913
-		Felipe Bueno Castilla	Provisional	12 June 1913	30 June 1913			President of the State Superior Court of Justice
22		Manuel Rojas Moreno	Interim	1 July 1913	3 July 1913
23		Manuel Rivera	Interim	4 July 1913	14 February 1914		<	-- Party -->	<	-- notes -->
23		Manuel Rivera	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	15 February 1914	4 September 1914		<		<
24		Eduardo Hurtado Aubry	Interim	5 September 1914	9 September 1914
25		Joaquín Mucel Acereto	Provisional	10 September 1914	23 June 1917		<	-- Party -->	<	-- notes -->
25		Joaquín Mucel Acereto	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	24 June 1917	15 September 1919		<		<
26		Enrique Arias Solís	Constitutional	16 September 1919	15 May 1920
-		Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga	Provisional	16 May 1920	25 July 1920
Elected under the post-revolutionary period
-		Gonzalo Sales Guerrero	Substitute	26 July 1920	3 January 1921
-		Eduardo Arceo Zumárraga	Provisional	4 January 1921	16 February 1921
27		Enrique Gómez Briceño	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	17 February 1921	11 August 1921
-		Guillermo Ferrer Vega	Provisional	11 August 1921	24 November 1921
28		Ramón Félix Flores	Constitutional (Extraordinary election)	25 November 1921	15 September 1923		Partido Socialista Agrario de Campeche (PSAC)
29		Ángel Castillo Lanz	Constitutional	16 September 1923	15 September 1927		PSAC
30		Silvestre Pavón Silva	Constitutional	16 September 1927	19 November 1928
31		Pedro Tello Andureza	Interim	20 November 1928	28 November 1928
32		Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo	Interim	28 November 1928	28 December 1928		National Revolutionary Party (PNR)	<	-- notes -->
32		Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo	Substitute	28 December 1928	31 May 1931		National Revolutionary Party (PNR)	<
33		Fausto Bojórquez Castillo	Substitute Interim	12 June 1931	15 September 1931
34		Benjamín Romero Esquivel	Constitutional	16 September 1931	15 September 1935
35		Eduardo R. Mena Córdova	Constitutional	16 September 1935	15 September 1939
36		Héctor Pérez Martínez	Constitutional	16 September 1939	15 September 1943
Six-year terms
37		Eduardo J. Lavalle Urbina	Constitutional	16 September 1943	15 September 1949
38		Manuel Jesús López Hernández	Constitutional	16 September 1949	15 September 1955
39		Alberto Trueba Urbina	Constitutional	16 September 1955	15 September 1961
40		José Ortiz Ávila	Constitutional	16 September 1961	15 September 1967
41		Carlos Sansores Pérez	Constitutional	16 September 1967	2 March 1973			Left governorship to become a federal deputy^[4]
42		Carlos Pérez Cámara	Interim	3 March 1973	13 August 1973		PRI	<	-- notes -->
42		Carlos Pérez Cámara	Substitute	14 August 1973	15 September 1973		PRI	<
43		Rafael Rodríguez Barrera	Constitutional	16 September 1973	15 September 1979
44		Eugenio Echeverría Castellot	Constitutional	16 September 1979	15 September 1985
45		Abelardo Carrillo Zavala	Constitutional	16 September 1985	15 September 1991
46		Jorge Salomón Azar García	Constitutional	16 September 1991	15 September 1997
47		José Antonio González Curi	Constitutional	16 September 1997	15 September 2003

Twenty-first century

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Took office	Name	Governorship	Left office	Time in office		Political party	Notes
Portrait	Name	Governorship	Term of office			Political party	Notes
48			Constitutional	16 September 2003	15 September 2009
49			Constitutional	16 September 2009	15 September 2015
50			Constitutional	16 September 2015	13 July 2019			Left governorship to become national president of the PRI^[5]
51			Interim	13 July 2019	14 September 2021		PRI
52			Constitutional	15 September 2021	Incumbent

Notes and References

Web site: Gobierno del Estado de Campeche - Nuestro Estado - Cultura - Gobernadores de Campeche . es . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20040206014814/http://www.campeche.gob.mx/nuestroestado/Cultura/gobernadores.htm . 2004-02-06 . 2018-10-01 .
Web site: 2022-01-02 . Algo de la política citadina campechana (1871-1911) . 2022-08-08 . . es. Instituto Mora.
Web site: 2015 . COESPO. Biografías de los Gobernadores del Estado de Campeche 1857-2015 . Biographies of the Governors of the State of Campeche 1857-2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625213314/http://coespo.campeche.gob.mx/phocadownload/BIOGRAF%C3%8DAS%20DE%20LOS%20GOBERNADORES%20DEL%20ESTADO%20DE%20CAMPECHE.pdf . 2022-06-25 . 2022-08-08 . Gobierno de Campeche . es .
Web site: Francisco. Ynurreta . Murió Carlos Sansores, ex gobernador de Campeche . 22 December 2005. 2022-08-07 . . Carlos Sansores, ex-governor of Campeche, died . es.
Web site: Proceso. Rosa. Santana. 13 June 2019. 8 August 2022. Carlos Miguel Aysa González releva a "Alito" como gobernador de Campeche. es. Carlos Miguel Aysa González substitutes “Alito” as governor of Campeche.