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The Senate (Spanish: Cámara de Senadores or Senado) is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress.

After a series of reforms during the 1990s, it is now made up of 128 senators:

Two for each of the 31 states and two for the Federal District elected under the principle of relative majority;
One for each of the 31 states and one for the Federal District, assigned under the principle of first minority (i.e. awarded to the party who had won the second highest number of votes within the state or Federal District);
Thirty-two national senators-at-large, divided among the parties in proportion to their share of the national vote.

In a senatorial race, each party nominates 2 candidates who run and are elected together by direct vote. The party of the 2 candidates that won the second highest vote within the state or the Federal District then assigns a senator to occupy the third seat (first minority seat), according to the list of candidates that the party registered before the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

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**Summary of the 2 July 2006 **Senate of Mexico** election results**
Alliances and parties			Votes	%	FPP Seats	SPP Seats	PR Seats	Total
	National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional)		14,043,213	33.63	32	9	11	52
Image:Logotipo Alianza por el Bien de Todos.jpg	Coalition for the Good of All (Coalición por el Bien de Todos)	Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revolución Democrática)	12,403,241	29.70	22	4	10	36
		Labor Party (Partido del Trabajo)
		Convergence (Convergencia)
Image:Alianza por México.jpg	Alliance for Mexico (Alianza por México)	Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional)	11,689,110	27.99	10	19	10	39
Image:Alianza por México.jpg	Alliance for Mexico (Alianza por México)	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecologista de México)	11,689,110	27.99	10	19	10	39
Image:Nueva Alianza logo.png	New Alliance Party (Partido Nueva Alianza)		1,689,099	4.04	0	0	1	1
	Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party (Partido Alternativa Socialdemócrata y Campesina)		796,102	1.91	0	0	0	0
Total			40,740,318	100.00	64	32	32	128
Source: IFE