The Governor of Oaxaca who is Gabino Cué Monteagudo‎, heads the executive branch of the Mexican state of Oaxaca

Oaxaca

Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...

. The office is created by the state constitution

Constitution

A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. These rules together make up, i.e. constitute, what the entity is...

, which specifies a term of 6 years and prohibits reelection. The governor takes office on December 1, and the term ends on November 30 six years later.

Gabino Cué Monteagudo was the first non-Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...

 governor elected since 1929. ‎

Governors of the state of Oaxaca

• (1917–1919): Juan Jiménez Méndez
• (1920–1924): Manuel García Vigil
• (1923): Flavio Pérez Gasga (Interim)
• (1924–1925): Onofre Jiménez
• (1925–1928): Genaro V. Vázquez
• (1928–1932): Francisco López Cortés
• (1932–1936): Anastasio García Toledo
• (1936–1940): Constantino Chapital
• (1940–1944): Vicente González Fernández
• (1944–1947): Edmundo M. Sánchez Cano
• (1947–1950): Eduardo Vasconcelos
  Eduardo Vasconcelos
  Eduardo Vasconcelos was Governor of Oaxaca from 1947 to 1950. In addition, he was also Secretary of Public Education in 1934 and Secretary of the Interior from 1932 to 1934.-External links:**...
  
  
• (1950–1952): Manuel Mayoral Heredia
• (1952–1955): Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado
• (1955): Manuel I. Manjardín (Interim)
• (1955–1956): José Pacheco Iturribarría (Interim)
• (1956–1962): Alfonso Pérez Gasca
• (1962–1968): Rodolfo Brena Torres
• (1968–1970): Víctor Bravo Ahuja
  Víctor Bravo Ahuja
  Víctor Bravo Ahuja was a Mexican politician and academician who served as Secretary of Public Education in the administration of Luis Echeverría , as Governor of Oaxaca and as Director General and then Rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology .He was born into a family composed by...
  
  
• (1970–1974): Fernando Gómez Sandoval
• (1974–1977): Miguel Zárate Aquino
• (1977–1980): Eliseo Jiménez Ruiz
• (1980–1985): Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• (1985–1986): Jesús Martínez Álvarez
• (1986–1992): Heladio Ramírez López
• (1992–1998): Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
• (1998–2004): José Murat Casab
  José Murat Casab
  José Murat Casab is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Oaxaca and is a Diputado Federal Electo by the Alliance for Mexico of Institutional Revolutionary Party-Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He is of Iraqi descent.Murat was a...
  
  
• (2004–2010): Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
  Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
  Ulises Ruiz Ortiz is a Mexican politician and former governor of the State of Oaxaca. He took office in 2004 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party .- Election Controversy :...
  
  
• (2010–2016): Gabino Cué Monteagudo‎