Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz (22 January 1974 – 18 December 2020) was a Mexican politician belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

In 2003, he was elected as a state delegate for District XI of Guadalajara, presiding over the Commission of Finance and Budget for the LVII Congress of Jalisco.

On 11 January 2012,[5] Aristóteles Sandoval requested to leave the municipal presidency in order to register himself as a gubernatorial candidate for the state of Jalisco.

The results provided by the Programa de Resultados Preliminares (PREP) declared Sandoval the winner with 98% of the votes counted and a margin of 4 percentage points over the closest contender, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.

As a consequence, on 8 July 2012, Sandoval received certification on behalf of the Instituto Electoral and from Participación Ciudadana, declaring him as governor elect.

[7][8][9] A march demanding the release of two restaurant employees who had been arrested on 30 December 2020 for altering the crime scene was organized on social media in Jalisco.

[10] On 22 April 2022, the Mexican Army gunned down and killed the alleged mastermind of Sandoval's assassination, Saúl Alejandro Rincón Godoy, a.k.a.