The big surprise was the closeness of the race in Campeche, a state in the southeastern heartland of the PRI president, Roberto Madrazo. Here the PRI candidate Jorge Carlos Hurtado squeaked home, 3,998 votes ahead of Juan Carlos del Río, from the ruling Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), in an election in which just over 250,000 people voted.
In Sonora, the PRI candidate Eduardo Bours came home just under 8,000 votes ahead of the panista Ramón Corral. The margin of victory was just over 1%. At the beginning of the year, opinion polls had put Bours well ahead of Corral. The PRI has also taken control of the state assembly, winning 16 of the 21 districts in first-past-the-post elections.
The results mean that the PRI won four of the six gubernatorial elections on 6 July. It took Sonora and Nuevo León from the PAN and held Colima and Campeche. Its only defeat, to the PAN, was in San Luis Potosí. The PAN also held Querétaro.
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