Mexican general election, 1991

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On Sunday August 18, 1991 they were held in Mexico legislative elections, in which they were chosen to federal level:

• 32 Senators. Members of the upper house of the Congress of the Union, chosen by relative majority in each states of the country and the Federal District for a period of six years that gave start November 1, 1991.
• 500 Federal Deputies. Members of the lower house of the Congress of the Union, 300 chosen in a direct way by each district uninominal and 200 chosen indirectly through a system of national lists by each one of the 5 districts in which the country is divided, all by a period of three years, that begins November 1, 1991.

Contents 1 Legislative election 1.1 Senate 1.1.1 Number of seats by political parties 1.2 Senate Votes 2 Chamber of Deputies 2.1 Number of seats by political parties 3 Chamber of Deputies votes 4 Notes 5 See also 6 External link

[edit] Legislative election

[edit] Senate

[edit] Number of seats by political parties

	Party	Senators	%
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	31	96.88
	National Action Party	1	3.12
	Total	32	100.0

Source: Instituto Federal Electoral

[edit] Senate Votes

	Party	Votes	%
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	14,256,447	58.66
	National Action Party	4,100,287	16.87
	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	1,202,425	4.95
	Alliance PRD-PPS[1]	1,109,450	4.57
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	878,115	3.61
	Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	487,258	2.00
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	326,251	1.34
	Mexican Democratic Party	276,661	1.14
	Labor Party	258,510	1.06
	Workers' Revolutionary Party	156,918	0.65
	Popular Socialist Party	97,780	0.40
	Write-in	14,284	0.04
	None	1,138,260	4.68
	Total	24,302,646	100.00

Source: Instituto Federal Electoral

[edit] Chamber of Deputies

[edit] Number of seats by political parties

	Party	Deputies	%
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	320	64
	National Action Party	89	17.8
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	41	8.2
	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	23	4.6
	Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	15	3
	Popular Socialist Party	12	2.4
	Total	500	100.0

Source: Instituto Federal Electoral

[edit] Chamber of Deputies votes

	Party	Relative majority		Proportional representation
		Votes	%	Votes	%
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	14,051,349	58.47	14,145,234	58.47
	National Action Party	4,042,316	16.82	4,068,712	16.82
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	1,900,750	7.91	1,913,174	7.91
	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	990,440	4.12	998,158	4.13
	Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	489,732	2.04	492,514	2.04
	Popular Socialist Party	411,848	1.71	414,780	1.71
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	329,714	1.37	332,303	1.37
	Labor Party	258,595	1.08	260,266	1.08
	Mexican Democratic Party	248,431	1.03	249,915	1.03
	Workers' Revolutionary Party	135,360	0.56	136,341	0.56
	Write-in	13,897	0.06	13,911	0.6
	None	1,160,050	4.83	1,168,631	4.83
	Total	24,032,482	100.00	24,194,239	100.00

Source: Instituto Federal Electoral [1], [2].

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Elections in Mexico
• Politics of Mexico
• List of political parties in Mexico

[edit] External link

• The election fraud I saw in Mexico by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute