Abstract

SONNLEITNER, Willibald. La nueva geografía electoral de Chiapas: polarización política, fragmentación partidista e incertidumbre electoral. LiminaR [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.1, pp.60-76. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v5i1.236.

The last elections for governor of the state of Chiapas, which were celebrated on August 20th 2006, produced uncertainty and confusion. The meaning of the elections focused on a binary dilemma, as a result of a strong polarization: continuity or change, in favor or against the “official” candidate. Nevertheless, the competition was not between two antagonistic political parties, nor between two projects with consistent ideologies, but between a mosaic of highly heterogeneous forces with the most diverse political affinities, precariously agglutinated around two confronted leaders, both of the PRI family. The bipolarization of the electoral game revealed, thus, the crisis and atomization of the political parties. And Chiapas returned, once again, to the front pages of Mexican politics, trough a post-electoral conflict that reminded the one on the federal level. This contribution analyzes the federal and local elections of 2006, studying the territorial structures of the vote on the municipal scale. The construction of a synthetic typology of the democratization since 1988 also allows to investigate the dynamics of the political participation and of the social and human geography of this Mexican state.

Keywords : Chiapas; polarization; political parties; federal and local elections of 2006; democratization; electoral geography.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )