64th Congress LXIV Legislatura | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Congress of the Union | ||||
Meeting place | Legislative Palace of San Lázaro (Deputies/General Congress) Edificio del Senado (Senate) | ||||
Term | 1 September 2018 – 31 August 2021 | ||||
Election | 1 July 2018 | ||||
Senate of the Republic | |||||
Members | 128 | ||||
President | Mónica Fernández Balboa | ||||
Chamber of Deputies | |||||
Members | 500 | ||||
President | Dulce María Sauri Riancho | ||||
Sessions | |||||
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The LXIV Legislature of the Congress of the Union, the 64th session of the Congress of Mexico, convened on 1 September 2018 and ended on 31 August 2021. It was composed of the 500 federal deputies and 128 senators elected in the 2018 Mexican general election. While the deputies served only in the 64th Congress, the senators, elected to six-year terms, also formed the Senate in the 65th Congress, which convened in 2021.
The 64th Congress was noteworthy for its gender parity, with the most women ever elected to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Women held 49 percent of the seats in the Senate, a national record and the third-highest percentage of women in a current national upper house, according to data collected by the Interparliamentary Union. [1] The Chamber of Deputies had the fourth-highest percentage of women among lower houses. [2] In the Chamber of Deputies, this was the first election to be conducted after a 2017 redistricting of the federal electoral districts conducted by the National Electoral Institute (INE). In reapportionment, Mexico City lost three seats, while seven states added a seat and four states lost one seat each. [3] On 23 August the PRI, PRD, PAN and Movimiento Ciudadano announced they would challenge the allocation of proportional representation seats in the Chamber of Deputies, saying MORENA was overrepresented. [4]
Party | Senators Relative majority | Senators First minority | Senators PR | Total | |
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National Action Party | 7 | 10 | 6 | 23 | |
Institutional Revolutionary Party | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | |
Party of the Democratic Revolution | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | |
Labor Party | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
Movimiento Ciudadano | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
New Alliance Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
National Regeneration Movement | 38 | 4 | 13 | 55 | |
Social Encounter Party | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 | |
Total | 64 | 32 | 32 | 128 | |
Source: INE (PR) |
Party | Deputies Relative majority | Deputies PR | Total | |
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National Action Party | 41 | 41 | 82 | |
Institutional Revolutionary Party | 7 | 38 | 45 | |
Party of the Democratic Revolution | 9 | 12 | 21 | |
Labor Party | 57 | 3 | 60 | |
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | 5 | 11 | 16 | |
Movimiento Ciudadano | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
New Alliance Party | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
National Regeneration Movement | 107 | 85 | 192 | |
Social Encounter Party | 55 | 0 | 55 | |
Independent | 0 | |||
Total | 300 | 200 | 500 | |
Source: INE (PR) |
The Senate is composed of 128 seats; three each elected from each of Mexico's 32 federative entities for a total of 96, as well as 32 proportional representation seats.
In the list, the first two senators represent those who won a majority in the state, with the first referring to the first formula and the second to the second formula. The third corresponds to the senator who secured a seat through first minority.
Aguascalientes
Baja California
Baja California Sur
Campeche
Chiapas
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Colima
Mexico City
Durango
Guanajuato
Guerrero
Hidalgo
Jalisco
State of Mexico
Michoacán
| Morelos
Nayarit
Nuevo León
Oaxaca
Puebla
Querétaro
Quintana Roo
San Luis Potosí
Sinaloa
Sonora
Tabasco
Tamaulipas
Tlaxcala
Veracruz
Yucatán
Zacatecas
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