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Mexico
| COUNTRY |
ELECTION TYPE |
DATE |
| United Mexican States |
Presidential |
July
2, 2000 |
At stake
in this election:
- The office of president
of Mexico
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Description
of government structure:
- Legislature: Mexico
has a bicameral National Congress composed of the Senate (Camara
de Senadores) and the Lower Chamber (Cámara de Diputados)
- The Senate consists
of 128 members.
- The Lower Chamber
consists of 500 members.
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Description
of electoral system:
- The president is
elected by popular vote for a six-year term.
- In the Senate,
64 members are elected by simply majority (2 per state, including Mexico
City) and 32 seats are accorded to the first minority party. The remaining
32 seats are distributed by proportional representation. All members
serve six-year terms.
- In the Lower Chamber,
300 members are elected by simple majority vote and 200 members are
elected by a party list proportional representation system. All members
serve three-year terms.
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Results of the election for president:
- Presidential
Candidate: Vicente FOX
Party: Alliance for Change
Valid Votes Received: 15,988,740
Percent of Valid Votes Received: 43.43%
*Includes the National Action Party (PAN) and the Mexican
Green Ecologist Party (PVEM)
- Presidential
Candidate: Francisco LABASTIDA
Party: Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Valid Votes Received: 13,576,385
Percent of Valid Votes Received: 36.88%
- Presidential
Candidate: Cuauhtémoc CÁRDENAS
Party: Alliance for Mexico
Valid Votes Received: 6,259,048
Percent of Valid Votes Received: 17.00%
*Includes the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Labor
Party (PT), Social Alliance Party (PAS), Convergence for Democracy CD
and the Party of the Nationalistic Society (PSN)
- Presidential
Candidate: Gilberto RINCÓN GALLARDO
Party: Social Democracy Party
Valid Votes Received: 592,07
Percent of Valid Votes Received: 1.61%
- Presidential
Candidate: Manuel CAMACHO
Party: Party of the Democratic Center (PCD)
Valid Votes Received: 208,261
Percent of Valid Votes Received: .57%
- Presidential
Candidate: Muñoz LEDO
Party: Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM)
Valid Votes Received: 157,119
Percent of Valid Votes Received: 43%
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When was
the last presidential election?
- Presidential Elections
were last held on August 21, 1994.
- President Ernesto
ZEDILLO received 50.13% of the vote and thus defeaded Diego FERNÁNDEZ
DE CEVALLOS, his closest competitor with 26.69% of the vote.
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Population
and number of registered voters:
- Population: 100,294,036
(July 1999 est.)
- Number of registered voters: 58,789,209
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Of Interest:
- Prior to this
election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had controlled
the presidency since its creation in 1929.
- Ernesto ZEDILLO
was barred from running in this election by the Mexican Constitution,
which allows the president to serve only one six-year term.
- The Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) held its first ever presidential primary on
November 7, 1999. Prior to this election, the PRI appointed its candidate.
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| SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTION SYSTEMS (IFES) |
| For additional information:
IFES ElectionGuide Online |
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