1997 Mexican legislative election

1997 Mexican legislative election
Mexico
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Chamber of Deputies

All 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PRI Humberto Roque Villanueva 39.09 239 −61
PAN Felipe Calderón 26.64 121 +2
PRD Andrés Manuel López Obrador 25.69 125 +54
PVEM Jorge González Torres 3.81 8 +8
PT Alberto Anaya 2.58 7 −3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate

32 of the 128 seats in the Senate of the Republic
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PRI Humberto Roque Villanueva 38.48 76 −19
PAN Felipe Calderón 26.92 33 +8
PRD Andrés Manuel López Obrador 25.83 14 +6
PVEM Jorge González Torres 4.03 1 +1
PT Alberto Anaya 2.55 1 +1
Independents 3 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Voting boxes from the elections

Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1997.[1] The Institutional Revolutionary Party won 239 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the first time it had failed to win a majority. As a result, the leaders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and of the National Action Party were able to control Congress and installed PRD member Porfirio Muñoz Ledo as the president of the Chamber of Deputies. At first, the PRI refused to accept the nomination and its parliamentary leader, Arturo Núñez Jiménez, declared it illegal. However, the PRI later accepted the fact and Muñoz Ledo answered the state of the union address of President Ernesto Zedillo.

The Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction (PFCRN), Popular Socialist Party (PSP) and Mexican Democratic Party (PDM) all lost their legal registration and disappeared, while the Labor Party (PT) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) consolidated their support, which turned them into parties who could form coalition governments. Voter turnout was between 57% and 58%.[2]

  1. ^ Mexico awaits verdict in historic election CNN, 6 July 1997
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, pp465-467 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6