2000 Mexican general election

2000 Mexican general election

2 July 2000
Presidential election
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Turnout	63.97% ( 13.19pp)
Nominee Vicente Fox Francisco Labastida Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Party PAN PRI PRD Alliance Alliance for Change Alliance for Mexico Popular vote 15,989,636 13,579,718 6,256,780 Percentage 43.43% 36.89% 17.00%
Results by state Results by constituency
President before election Ernesto Zedillo PRI Elected President Vicente Fox PAN
Senate
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All 128 seats in the Senate of the Republic 65 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Alliance for Change Luis Felipe Bravo Mena 39.10 51 +17 PRI Dulce María Sauri Riancho 37.51 60 −16 Alliance for Mexico – 19.29 17 +2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chamber of Deputies
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All 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 251 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Alliance for Change Luis Felipe Bravo Mena 39.19 224 +95 PRI Dulce María Sauri Riancho 37.75 211 −28 Alliance for Mexico – 19.12 65 −67 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2000. Voters went to the polls to elect a new president to serve a single six-year term, replacing President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, who was ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution. The election system ran under plurality voting; 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) for three-year terms and 128 members of the Senate (three per state by first-past-the-post – two first-past-the-post seats are allocated to the party with the largest share of the vote; the remaining seat is given to the first runner-up – and 32 by proportional representation from national party lists) for six-year terms.

The presidential election was won by Vicente Fox of the Alliance for Change, who received 43.4% of the vote,^[1] the first time the opposition had won an election since the Mexican Revolution. In the congressional elections the Alliance for Change emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Deputies with 224 of the 500 seats, whilst the Institutional Revolutionary Party remained the largest faction in the Senate with 60 of the 128 seats in the Senate.^[2] Voter turnout was between 63 and 64% in the elections.^[3]

This historically significant election made Fox the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911, as well as the first in 71 years to defeat, with 43 percent of the vote, the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party.