Senate of Mexico

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The Senate (Spanish: Cámara de Senadores or Senado) is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress.

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After a series of reforms during the 1990s, it is now made up of 128 senators:

  • Two for each of the 31 states and two for the Federal District elected under the principle of relative majority;
  • One for each of the 31 states and one for the Federal District, assigned under the principle of first minority (i.e. awarded to the party who had won the second highest number of votes within the state or Federal District);
  • Thirty-two national senators-at-large, divided among the parties in proportion to their share of the national vote.

In a senatorial race, each party nominates two candidates who run and are elected together by direct vote. The party of the two candidates that won the second highest vote within the state or the Federal District then assigns a senator to occupy the third seat (first minority seat), according to the list of candidates that the party registered with the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

[edit] Term and current Composition

See main article: LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress

In Spanish, it is conventional to refer to each Legislature of the Senate by the Roman numeral of its term.

The current session (whose term lasts from 2006 to 2009) is known as the LX Legislatura (60th Legislature).

Senators are elected to serve during two legislatures of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Thus, current Senators (who were elected in the general election of July 2, 2006) will serve during the 60th and 61st Legislatures of the Chamber of Deputies.

[edit] Last election

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Summary of the 2 July 2006 Mexican Senate election results
Parties and/or coalitions Votes % FPP FM PR Total seats
National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) 14,035,503 33.63 32 9 11 52
Coalition for the Good of All
(Coalición por el Bien de Todos)		 Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática) 12,397,008 29.70 22 4 5 31
Labour Party (Partido del Trabajo) 0 0 3 3
Convergence (Convergencia) 0 0 2 2
Alliance for Mexico
(Alianza por México)		 Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) 11,681,395 27.99 10 19 6 35
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecologista de México) 0 0 4 4
New Alliance Party (Partido Nuevo Alianza) 1,688,198 4.04 0 0 1 1
Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party {Partido Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina) 795,730 1.91 0 0 0 0
Total 41,739,188 100.00 64 32 32 128
Source: Senate

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