Mexican general election, 1988
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The general election was held in Mexico on Wednesday, July 6, 1988. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:
- A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid (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.
- 64 Senators. Members of the upper house of the Congress of the Union, 2 by each state of Mexico and the Federal District, 32 chosen in a direct way by a period of six years and 32 chosen for an extraordinary period of three years, both began September 1, 1988.
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[edit] Presidential election
The 1988 elections was the unique process until then in the history of Mexico, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari faced for the first time a true competition two competing candidates, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, former PRI member that had resigned from the party in protest with the nomination of Salinas and the economic policy of the government of Miguel de la Madrid that was result of nomination of Cárdenas to the left coalition, the National Democratic Front and Manuel Clouthier of the National Action Party. When finishing the electoral process on July 6, according to several versions, the first results showed an advantage of Cárdenas and Secretary of Interior, Manuel Bartlett Díaz announced that the electoral results could not be given immediately due to a caída del sistema of the calculation system, when the results were given, granted the Salinas triumph. Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the opposition did not know this result and demanded the election invalid, making multitudinous manifestations that nevertheless could not prevent the declaration of Salinas president-elect by the Chamber of Deputies where the PRI hardly had an advantage of 20 deputies in front of the competing set and the government always maintained the legality of the elections. Salinas took possession from the presidency, but Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the opposition that later gave origin to the Party of the Democratic Revolution always maintained the illegality of the election.
[edit] Election results
The candidates who participated in the 1988 Presidential Election and the results which they obtained according to the official data published by the Secretary of the Interior were the following:
| Party/Alliance | Candidate | Votes | Percent | |
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 | Institutional Revolutionary Party | Carlos Salinas de Gortari | ||
| Image:Logo PARM.jpg Image:Logo PPS.jpg </br>Image:50 8 PFCRN.jpg Image:Logo PMS.jpg | National Democratic Front </br>(PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano | ||
 | National Action Party | Manuel de Jesús Clouthier del Rincón | ||
| Image:Logo PDM.jpg | Mexican Democratic Party | Gumersindo Magaña Negrete | ||
| Workers' Revolutionary Party | Rosario Ibarra de Piedra | |||
| Total votes | ||||
- Source: El Universal
[edit] Legislative elections
The electoral results took to that for the first time the PRI did not obtain the three fourth of the Chamber of Deputies and hardly obtained the absolute majority by 10 deputies of advantage, in addition by first you see were elect opposition senators, discarding to Jorge Cruickshank García who had been Senator by an alliance between the PRI and their party the PPS.
[edit] Chamber of Deputies
| Party | Deputies | |
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| | Institutional Revolutionary Party | |
| Image:Logo PARM.jpg Image:Logo PPS.jpg </br>Image:50 8 PFCRN.jpg Image:Logo PMS.jpg | National Democratic Front </br>(PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) | |
| | National Action Party |
[edit] Senate
| Party | Senator | |
|---|---|---|
| | Institutional Revolutionary Party | |
| Image:Logo PARM.jpg Image:Logo PPS.jpg </br>Image:50 8 PFCRN.jpg Image:Logo PMS.jpg | National Democratic Front </br>(PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS) |
The National Democratic Front was dissolved after the installation of the Congress, the PARM, the PPS and the PFCRN constituted its own way and the PMS and the expelled PRI members constituted the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
