Mexican legislative election, 1997
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On Sunday July 6, 1997 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 a national list voted in the 5 districts in which the country by an extraordinary period of three years is divided, due to the legal reforms to the integration of the Senate of the Republic in 1996.
- 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 September 1, 1997.
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[edit] Legislative elections
The legislative elections of 1997 marked a milestone in the modern history of Mexico as was the first time that the Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the simple majority in the chamber of deputies. Therefore, this chamber was constituted by minorities, being the PRI the first minority. Nevertheless, the representatives of all the parties of opposition (PAN, PRD, PVEM and PT) they were a majority respect to PRI. For this reason, the leaders and coordinators of the PRD and of the PAN, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and Carlos Medina Plascencia respectively, took the control of the Congress and installed the LVII Legislature by choosing Muñoz Ledo as the president of the deputies. At first, the PRI refused to accept the nomination of Muñoz Ledo and its parliamentary leader, Arturo Núñez Jiménez, declared illegal the act. Finally, the PRI accepted the fact and Muñoz Ledo answered the state of the union address of president Ernesto Zedillo.
[edit] Senate
[edit] Number of the seats by political parties
| Party | Senators | % |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 77 | 60.15 |
| National Action Party | 33 | 25.78 |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 16 | 12.50 |
| Labor Party | 1 | 0.78 |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 1 | 0.78 |
| Total | 128 | 100.0 |
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral
[edit] Senate votes
| Party | Proportional representation | |
|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 11,279,167 | 38.50 |
| National Action Party | 7,880,966 | 26.90 |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 7,569,895 | 25.84 |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 1,180,804 | 4.03 |
| Labor Party | 745,279 | 2.54 |
| Partido Cardenista | 335,399 | 1.14 |
| Mexican Democratic Party | 193,340 | 0.66 |
| Popular Socialist Party | 95,719 | 0.33 |
| None | 871,326 | |
| Total | 30,151,895 | 100.00 |
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral [1].
[edit] Chamber of Deputies
[edit] Number of the seats by political parties
| Party | Deputies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 239 | 47.8 |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 125 | 25 |
| National Action Party | 121 | 24.2 |
| Labor Party | 7 | 1.4 |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 6 | 1.2 |
| Total | 500 | 100.0 |
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral
[edit] Chamber of Deputies votes
| Party | Relative majority | Proportional representation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | 11,311,963 | 39.11 | 11,445,852 | 39.11 |
| National Action Party | 7,696,797 | 26.61 | 7,792,290 | 26.63 |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | 7,436,468 | 25.71 | 7,519,914 | 25.70 |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 1,105,922 | 3.62 | 1,116,463 | 3.82 |
| Labor Party | 749,231 | 2.59 | 756,436 | 2.58 |
| Partido Cardenista | 324,265 | 1.12 | 327,681 | 1.12 |
| Mexican Democratic Party | 191,821 | 0.66 | 193,990 | 0.66 |
| Popular Socialist Party | 97,473 | 0.34 | 98,391 | 0.34 |
| None | 844,762 | 855,227 | ||
| Total | 29,771,911 | 100.00 | 30,120,221 | 100.00 |
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral [2], [3].
[edit] Consequence
As a consequence of the elections, the Cardenista, Popular Socialist and Mexican Democratic parties lost their legal registration and they disappeared as such, while the Labor Party and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico managed to consolidate a base of support that, although minority, gave a real political force and became parties whose votes could help the greater parties form majorities.
Since the 1997 congressional elections no party has obtained obsolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
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