Gumersindo Magaña Negrete (5 December 1939[1] – 16 April 2013) was a Mexican politician from Uruapan, Michoacán. A member of the right-wing and now dissolved Mexican Democratic Party (PDM), he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1979 election.[2]

Gumersindo Magaña
Born(1929-06-05)5 June 1929
Died16 April 2013(2013-04-16) (aged 73)
OccupationPolitician
Political partyMexican Democratic Party

He later represented his party in the 1988 presidential election, in which faced Carlos Salinas, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Rosario Ibarra and Manuel Clouthier.[3] In spite of the hopes expressed by Magaña during the electoral campaign, his party managed to obtain only 199,484 of the votes (1.04%), a very distant fourth place, causing the party to lose its registration, which it recovered three more times until definitively losing it in the mid-term federal elections of 1997.

Magaña retired from political life in 1988 and was not a registered member of any party. He died in 2013 in the city of San Luis Potosí.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Camp, Roderic Ai (2011). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition. University of Texas Press. p. 578. ISBN 9780292726345. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Legislatura LI" (PDF). Cámara de Diputados.
  3. ^ "Mexican gov't claims election victory; claims fraud". News-Journal. Jul 8, 1988. p. 6A. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  4. ^ ""Gumersindo Magaña N., descanse en paz…" - La Verdad de Tamaulipas - EDITORIAL". La Verdad. 2013-04-18. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2013-08-22.