MEXICAN GENERAL ELECTION, 1994

The 'general election' was held in Mexico on Sunday, August 21 1994. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:

★ A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution).

★ 500 members (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies.

★ 128 members (three per state by first-past-the-post and 32 by proportional representation from national party lists) to serve six-year terms in the Senate. In each state, two first-past-the-post seats are allocated to the party with the largest share of the vote, and the remaining seat is given to the first runner-up.

Contents

Presidential election

Election results

Results by state

Congress of the Union

Chamber of Deputies

Senate

External links

Presidential election

The 1994 election is a political instability atmosphere after the rise of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation on January 1 of that year and murder of the original candidate of the PRI, Luis Donaldo Colosio on March 23 in Tijuana. Although it was not arrived at the levels of 1988 tension, most of the political analysts agree in which people voted by the continuity of the party in the government as a form to counterpart the fear to the destabilization of the country after five years of the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

Election results

The candidates who participated in the Presidential election of 1994 and the results which they obtained were the following:

Candidates		Party	Votes	%
	Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León	Institutional Revolutionary Party	17,181,651	48.69%
	Diego Fernández de Cevallos	National Action Party	9,146,841	25.92%
	Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano	Party of the Democratic Revolution	5,852,134	16.59%
	Cecilia Soto González	Labor Party	970,121	2.75%
	Jorge González Torres	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	327,313	0.93%
	Rafael Aguilar Talamantes	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	297,901	0.84%
	Álvaro Pérez Treviño	Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	192,795	0.55%
	Marcela Lombardo Otero	Popular Socialist Party	166,594	0.47%
	Pablo Emilio Madero	Mexican Democratic Party- National Opposition Union	97,935	0.28%
	''Write in''		43,715	0.12%
	''Blank/Invalid''		1,008,291	2.86%
'Total'			'35,285,291'	'100.00%'
Source: Instituto Federal Electoral [1]

Results by state

Based on the official results of the Federal Electoral Institute

State	Zedillo	Cevallos	Cárdenas	Soto	González	Aguilar	Pérez	Lombardo	Madero	Write-in	None
Aguascalientes	'157,736'	124,484	29,236	6,518	3,794	6,610	1,320	1,271	1,048	136	7,463
Baja California	'402,332'	297,565	68,669	15,953	7,853	3,399	2,044	3,088	1,310	1,882	18,393
Baja California Sur	'80,097'	46,907	9,463	3,905	786	564	386	324	242	35	2,580
Campeche	'123,225'	41,910	47,640	2,935	720	1,139	3,241	1,051	384	433	6,328
Chiapas	'493,135'	126,266	347,981	19,381	4,274	17,404	7,255	6,183	1,348	3,495	63,987
Chihuahua	'660,874'	308,590	68,251	39,901	5,102	3,615	2,702	3,300	1,424	640	28,751
Coahuila	'359,168'	226,621	97,121	17,954	3,157	14,760	5,088	2,355	816	420	15,582
Colima	'102,903'	60,338	24,157	2,882	1,316	3,448	424	627	1,247	548	5,354
Distrito Federal	'1,873,059'	1,172,438	902,199	185,903	91,839	37,370	15,402	19,084	12,246	7,157	98,706
Durango	'266,837'	141,818	49,793	43,351	2,466	2,712	1,950	2,181	545	602	13,833
Guanajuato	'945,088'	513,865	149,268	32,763	10,906	13,838	10,031	6,691	14,685	2,873	57,808
Guerrero	'385,590'	74,198	266,818	9,168	2,951	13,485	7,037	4,300	2,634	1,057	25,973
Hidalgo	'450,800'	134,171	115,693	14,988	4,992	8,668	7,253	3,442	1,107	794	29,754
Jalisco	'1,050,815'	1,008,234	166,226	47,854	20,023	17,464	11,566	9,528	11,289	3,181	59,081
México	'2,143,122'	1,179,422	835,135	150,186	82,171	45,385	22,075	26,053	14,193	4,481	114,214
Michoacán	'612,040'	212,921	493,236	17,729	7,606	8,542	8,584	4,293	6,160	1,130	36,124
Morelos	'282,821'	128,942	109,560	14,399	6,509	5,845	3,249	2,073	1,305	1,075	14,063
Nayarit	'179,411'	59,925	50,717	8,862	1,243	1,758	1,661	2,394	310	775	9,031
Nuevo León	'723,629'	596,820	44,413	89,387	5,860	2,917	2,874	2,409	2,144	2,193	31,091
Oaxaca	'509,776'	131,225	276,758	17,221	5,044	9,665	12,803	10,816	1,445	891	44,163
Puebla	'787,493'	399,942	216,200	37,141	13,263	11,750	10,850	9,493	2,885	1,196	61,865
Querétaro	'275,788'	149,540	26,969	11,077	2,937	3,122	1,572	2,127	1,554	231	14,419
Quintana Roo	'112,546'	62,006	26,301	2,665	1,304	1,550	902	1,026	174	80	5,522
San Luis Potosí	'440,601'	196,351	73,523	19,705	4,546	2,980	3,701	2,537	3,192	996	26,783
Sinaloa	'474,882'	285,207	129,025	12,059	3,982	2,973	4,383	4,098	580	835	20,680
Sonora	'361,835'	330,272	111,978	33,118	2,778	2,698	1,646	1,741	961	1,066	17,745
Tabasco	'335,851'	44,763	196,100	5,832	1,583	3,158	1,645	1,563	399	293	22,427
Tamaulipas	'481,595'	275,989	192,900	23,916	5,155	5,307	20,502	3,301	1,604	1,357	30,058
Tlaxcala	'186,126'	84,582	54,029	7,799	2,862	2,120	1,819	2,138	1,887	114	9,681
Veracruz	'1,360,540'	419,109	612,354	50,492	16,342	40,825	16,127	23,508	7,810	3,115	93,331
Yucatán	'251,699'	195,986	15,009	3,583	2,102	1,127	799	867	330	84	10,429
Zacatecas	'310,237'	116,434	45,412	21,494	1,847	1,703	1,904	2,732	677	550	13,072
'Total'	'17,181,651'	9,146,841	5,852,134	970,121	327,313	297,901	192,795	166,594	97,935	43,715	1,008,291

Congress of the Union

Chamber of Deputies

'Party'	'Deputies'
Institutional Revolutionary Party	300
National Action Party	119
Party of the Democratic Revolution	71
Labor Party	10

Senate

'Party'	'Senator'
Institutional Revolutionary Party	102
National Action Party	20
Party of the Democratic Revolution	6

The Congress of the Union is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies. Consecutive re-election is prohibited. Senators are elected to six-year terms, and deputies serve three-year terms. The Senate's 128 seats are filled by a mixture of direct-election (96) and proportional representation (32). In the lower chamber, 300 deputies are directly elected to represent single-member districts, and 200 are selected by a modified form of proportional representation from five electoral regions. The 200 proportional representation seats were created to help smaller parties gain access to the Chamber.
Even before the new electoral laws were passed, opposition parties were beginning to secure an increasing voice in Mexico's political system. A substantial number of candidates from opposition parties had won election to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate in 1994 elections.

External links

★ The elections: Good and bad news for North American relations by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute

★ The 1994 Elections in Mexico: Still Neither Fully Free Nor Fair by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute