Mexican general election, 1988
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| Mexican general election, 1988 |
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| July 6, 1988 | ||||
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| Nominee | Carlos Salinas | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas | Manuel Clouthier | |
| Party | PRI | PRD | PAN | |
| Home state | DF | DF | Sinaloa | |
| Popular vote | 9,641,329 | 5,911,133 | 3,267,159 | |
| Percentage | 50.48 | 30.95% | 17.11% | |
The general election was held in Mexico on Wednesday, July 6, 1988. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:
- A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid (ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution).
- 500 members (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies.
- 64 Senators. Members of the upper house of the Congress of the Union, 2 by each state of Mexico and the Federal District, 32 chosen in a direct way by a period of six years and 32 chosen for an extraordinary period of three years, both began September 1, 1988.
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[edit] Presidential election
The 1988 elections was the unique process until then in the history of Mexico. The candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari faced for the first time a truly competitive race. His opponent, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, was a former PRI member that had resigned from the party in protest with the nomination of Salinas and the economic policy of the government of Miguel de la Madrid. Cardenas' resignation from the PRI resulted in his nomination as the presidential candidate for the left coalition, the National Democratic Front and Manuel Clouthier of the National Action Party. At the conclusion of the electoral process July 6, according to several versions, the first results showed Cardenas with a significant lead. Secretary of Interior, Manuel Bartlett Díaz announced, however, that the electoral results could not be given immediately due to a caída del sistema (literally, the tabulation system had collapsed). When the results were finally given, Salinas was declared the winner. Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the opposition did not recognize this result and declared the election invalid, spurring multiple mass protests that nevertheless could not prevent Salinas from being declared President-elect by the Chamber of Deputies where the PRI had a significant advantage of 20 deputies in front of the competing set and the government always maintained the legality of the elections. Salinas took possession from the presidency, but Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the opposition, including that which later gave origin to the Party of the Democratic Revolution, but also the PAN and almost all other electoral observers, always maintained the illegality of the election.
[edit] Election results
The candidates who participated in the 1988 Presidential Election and the results which they obtained according to the official data published by the Secretary of the Interior were the following:
| Party/Alliance | Candidate | Votes | Percent |
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party | Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
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| National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) |
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano |
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| National Action Party | Manuel de Jesús Clouthier del Rincón |
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| Mexican Democratic Party | Gumersindo Magaña Negrete |
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| Workers' Revolutionary Party | Rosario Ibarra de Piedra |
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- Source: El Universal
[edit] Legislative elections
The electoral results took to that for the first time the PRI did not obtain the three fourth of the Chamber of Deputies and hardly obtained the absolute majority by 10 deputies of advantage, in addition by first time opposition senators were elected, not counting Jorge Cruickshank García who had been Senator by an alliance between the PRI and their party the PPS[citation needed].
[edit] Chamber of Deputies
| Party | Deputies |
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party |
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| National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) |
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| National Action Party |
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[edit] Senate
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| National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) |
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The National Democratic Front was dissolved after the installation of the Congress, the PARM, the PPS and the PFCRN constituted its own way and the PMS and the expelled PRI members constituted the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
[edit] External links
- Favorite Son: The heir of Mexico’s greatest reformer saw his election stolen and his friend murdered. Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas remains the man who would be el Presidente. by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute
- Electoral fraud, 1988 Mexican federal elections: sample burnt ballots by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute
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