Mexican legislative election, 2003

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Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 2003. [1] Although the National Action Party received the most votes, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 224 of the 500 seats. Voter turnout was only 41%. [2]

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.

National Action Party (Mexico) Mexican political party

The National Action Party, founded in 1939, is a conservative political party in Mexico, one of the three main political parties in Mexico. Since the 1980s, it has been an important political party winning local, state, and national elections. In 2000, PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected president for a six-year term; in 2006, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón succeeded Fox in the presidency. During the period 2000-2012, both houses of the Congress of the Union contained PAN pluralities, but the party had a majority in neither. In the 2006 legislative elections the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senators. In the 2012 legislative elections, the PAN won 38 seats in the Senate, and 114 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The members of this party are colloquially called Panistas.

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.

Results

PartyConstituency PR Seats+/-
Votes%Votes%
National Action Party 8,189,69931.88,219,64931.8151-56
Institutional Revolutionary Party 6,166,35823.96,196,17124.0224+16
Party of the Democratic Revolution 4,694,36518.24,707,00918.297+44
Alliance for All Coalition3,637,68514.13,637,68514.00New
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico 1,063,7414.11,068,7214.1170
Labor Party 640,7242.5642,2902.56-1
Convergence 603,3922.3605,1562.35New
México Posible 242,2800.9243,2610.90New
Social Alliance Party 197,4880.8198,0750.80-2
Citizen Force Party 123,4990.5124,0220.50New
Mexican Liberal Party 108,3770.4108,8440.40New
Party of the Nationalist Society 72,0290.372,2670.30-3
Non-registered candidates16,3590.116,4470.100
Invalid/blank votes896,649–899,227–––
Total26,651,64510026,738,9241005000
Source: Nohlen, Federal Election Institute

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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, p455
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