Politics: Congressional Election Results

MEXICO - Report 17 Jun 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Although the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) experienced a net loss of votes compared to past elections and obtained only 29.2% of the vote, that proved to be enough to win 176, or slightly more than 60% of the 300 single member, relative majority districts. The PRI took close to a third of those seats away from the National Action Party (PAN) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), but also lost 33 districts to opposition candidates. Compared to the 2009 mid-term elections, the PRI experienced a net loss of six seats. PRI minor party ally PVEM ...

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