[1] A local election was held in the Mexican state of Tabasco on Sunday, 15 October 2006.

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.

[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.