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State Election Results

The results are in for elections across three states, with a mixed showing for the major parties. 

In Baja California, President Calderon's National Action Party (PAN) won the governor's race, four of five mayor's races, and a majority in the state legislature.  The only candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to win a mayor's race was Hugo Torres Chabert in Rosarito Beach.

In the Oaxaca elections, the PRI dominated elections for the state legislature, where it had trailed the Democratic Revolution Party in last year's national elections.  The PRI also won most of the state legislature and major mayoral races in Aguascalientes, currently governed by the PAN.