Mexican general election, 1958

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Mexican general election, 1958
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  1952 July 6, 1958 1964  

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Nominee Adolfo López Mateos Luis H. Álvarez
Party PRI PAN
Home state State of México Chihuahua
Popular vote6,767,754705,303
Percentage90.43%9.42%

President before election

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
PRI

Elected President

Adolfo López Mateos
PRI

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General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1958. [1] The presidential elections were won by Adolfo López Mateos, who received 90.4% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 153 of the 162 seats. [2] These were the first Mexican presidential elections in which women were allowed to vote.

Mexico Country in the southern portion of North America

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.

Adolfo López Mateos President of Mexico

Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician who became a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), after earlier opposing its precursor in 1929. He was elected President of Mexico, serving from 1958 to 1964.

Institutional Revolutionary Party Mexican political party

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party founded in 1929 that held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution, and finally renaming itself as the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1946.

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Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Adolfo López Mateos Institutional Revolutionary Party 6,767,75490.4
Luis H. Álvarez National Action Party 705,3039.4
Other candidates10,3460.1
Invalid/blank votes
Total7,463,403100
Source: Nohlen

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes%Seats+/-
Institutional Revolutionary Party 6,467,49388.21530
National Action Party 749,51910.260
Popular Socialist Party 50,1450.71-1
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution 32,4640.41New
Non-registered candidates10,3090.11New
Invalid/blank votes
Total7,332,4291001620
Source: Nohlen

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References

  1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p453 ISBN   978-0-19-928357-6
  2. Nohlen, p468