Governor of Yucatán

According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican state is placed in a single individual, that Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán who is chosen for a period of 6 years and is not eligible for reelection. The term of governor begins October 1 of the year of the election and finishes September 30 six years later.

The same constitution empowers those individuals to be elected Governor who have held the title of executive power but in a different way to the popular election, namely the interim, or temporary replacements. The latter has caused contorversies and political conflicts, because in the view of several instances is in conflict with a precept of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that stipulates that no state governor may hold power for more than six years.

The Yucátan state was created in January 31, 1824, being one of the original states of the federation, which along their history has passed through all the systems of government in place in Mexico, the federal system as the central system, so that the name of the entity has varied between state and department; varying with it, the name of the holder of the executive branch of the State.

Individuals who have occupied the governorship in the state of Yucatán, in its various denominations, have been:

From Independence to the Mexican Revolution

: "List currently incomplete"

* José Tiburcio López Constante 1825
* Santiago Méndez Ibarra 5 terms, 1840s–1850s
* Miguel Barbachano 5 terms, 1841–1853
* Crescencio José Pinel
* Manuel Cepeda Peraza 1860s
* José María Pino Suárez 1911
* Jesús L. González 1911
* Nicolás Cámara Vales
* Agustín Patrón Correa
* Nicolás Cámara Vales
* Fernando Solís León
* Arcadio Escobedo
* Felipe G. Solís
* Eugenio Rascón
* Prisciliano Cortés
* Eleuterio Ávila
* Toribio de los Santos
* Abel Ortiz Argumedo
* Salvador Alvarado Rubio
* Carlos Castro Morales
* Enrique Recio
* Francisco Vega Loyo
* Tomás Garrido Canabal
* Antonio Ancona Albertos
* Hircano Ayuso O'Horibe
* Manuel Berzunza

Governors of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatan since the Revolution

* (1922 - 1924): Felipe Carrillo Puerto
* (1924 - 1926): José María Iturralde Traconis
* (1926 - 1930): Álejandro Torre Díaz
* (1930 - 1934): Bartolomé García Correa
* (1934 - 1935): César Alayola Barrera
* (1935 - 1936): Fernando Cárdenas
* (1936 - 1938): Florencio Palomo Valencia
* (1938 - 1942): Humberto Canto Echeverría
* (1942 - 1946): Ernesto Novelo Torres
* (1946 - 1951): José González Beytia
* (1951 - 1952): Humberto Esquivel Medina
* (1952 - 1953): Tomás Marentes Miranda
* (1953 - 1958): Víctor Mena Palomo
* (1958 - 1964): Agustín Franco Aguilar
* (1964 - 1970): Luis Torres Mesías
* (1970 - 1976): Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
* (1976 - 1982): Francisco Luna Kan
* (1982 - 1984): Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
* (1984 - 1988): Víctor Cervera Pacheco
* (1988 - 1991): Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
* (1991 - 1993): Dulce María Sauri Riancho
* (1993 - 1994): Ricardo Ávila Heredia
* (1994 - 1995): Federico Granja Ricalde
* (1995 - 2001): Víctor Cervera Pacheco
* (2001 - 2007): Patricio Patrón Laviada
* (2007 - 2012): Ivonne Ortega Pacheco

ee also

*List of Mexican state governors