Margarita Ortega Villa

Margarita Ortega Villa
Senator for Baja California
In office
1 September 1988 – 15 March 1989
Federal deputy for Baja California's 4th
In office
1 September 1985 – 31 August 1988
Member of the Congress of Baja California
In office
1974–1977
Personal details
Born(1951-05-05)5 May 1951
Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico
Died7 January 1996(1996-01-07) (aged 44)
Federal District, Mexico
PartyPRI
EducationUABC
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionSociologist
Known for
1989 Baja California gubernatorial election

Margarita Ortega Villa[a] (5 May 1951 – 7 January 1996) was a Mexican politician from the state of Baja California. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), she served in the Congress of Baja California, represented her state in both chambers of Congress, and contended unsuccessfully for the governorship in 1989.

Life and career

Margarita Ortega Villa was born in Mexicali, Baja California, on 5 May 1951. In 1973 she earned a degree in sociology from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), where she also taught both before and after graduating.[3]

In 1973–1976 she was the alternate of Federico Martínez Manautou, who was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent Baja California's 1st congressional district in the 1973 mid-terms; she deputised for him in 1974–1975. She was later elected to the Congress of Baja California for the 1974–1977 term and, from 1982 to 1985, was the alternate of José Ignacio Monge Rangel in the federal Congress, again representing Baja California's 1st.[3][4][2]

In the 1985 mid-terms, Ortega was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in her own right, representing Baja California's 4th district for the duration of the 53rd Congress (1985–1988).[5] At the end of her term in the lower house, she was elected to the Senate for Baja California in the 1988 general election.[3]

She resigned her Senate seat on 15 March 1989 in order to contend as the PRI's candidate for governor of Baja California in that year's state election and was replaced by her alternate, César Moreno Martínez de Escobar, for the remainder of her congressional term.[6][7] She came second in the 2 July 1989 election, defeated by a result of 47.83% to 38.29% in favour of Ernesto Ruffo Appel of the National Action Party (PAN).[8][b] Ruffo's victory was the first occasion an opposition party had won a state governorship since the creation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) – the forerunner of the PRI – in 1929.[9]

Following her defeat in the gubernatorial election, Ortega Villa declined to return to her Senate seat, despite the urgings of colleagues including Dulce María Sauri Riancho.[10][11] She served as director-general of the National Consumer Institute (INCO) from 1989 to 1992.[3]

Margarita Ortega Villa died of cancer in Mexico City on 7 January 1996, at the age of 44.[12]

Family

Margarita Ortega's parents were Mario Ortega Cervantes and Carmen Villa Aguilar. She was married to José Jesús Romo Reynoso.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Mexican name, the surname is Ortega and the second or maternal family name is Villa. She was also known by the married name Margarita Ortega [Villa] de Romo.[1][2]
  2. ↑ Candidates from four other parties – PRD, PARM, PPS and PFCRN – failed to break 2% of the vote.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Vázquez Salazar, Ricardo (3 July 2013). "24 años después" [24 Years Later]. Al Calor Político (in Spanish).
  2. 1 2 "Legislatura 52" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Camp, Roderic Ai (2011). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–2009 (4th ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 710. ISBN 9780292726345.
  4. ↑ "Legislatura 49" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Legislatura 53" (PDF). Biblioteca Virtual (in Spanish). Cámara de Diputados. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Diario de los Debates". Crónica (in Spanish). Senado de la República. 15 March 1989.
  7. ↑ Lajous, Luz; Franco, Fernando, eds. (September 2004). José Luis Lamadrid – Una sola pasión: la política (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Porrúa. p. 146. ISBN 9789707014961.
  8. 1 2 Centro de Estudios de la Democracia y Elecciones. "Resultados de la elección para gobernador en el estado de Baja California" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "¿Quién es Ernesto Ruffo Appel? Biografía, trayectoria y por qué fue detenido el exgobernador del PAN" [Who is Ernesto Ruffo Appel? Biography, career, and reason for the arrest of the former PAN governor]. Proceso (in Spanish). 17 July 2026.
  10. ↑ Sauri Riancho, Dulce María (10 November 2021). "Las gobernadoras en México" [Mexico's Women Governors]. Diario de Yucatán (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "Diario de los Debates". Crónica. Senado de la República. 13 September 1989.
  12. ↑ Vieyra Gómez, Alberto (1998). Los años macabros (in Spanish). Costa-Amic Editores. ISBN 978-968-459-012-0.
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