1994 Mexican general election

1994 Mexican general election

21 August 1994
Presidential election
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Turnout	77.16% ( 25.15 pp)
Nominee Ernesto Zedillo Diego Fernández de Cevallos Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Party PRI PAN PRD Popular vote 17,181,651 9,146,841 5,852,134 Percentage 50.13% 26.69% 17.07%
Results by state
President before election Carlos Salinas de Gortari PRI Elected President Ernesto Zedillo PRI
Senate
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96 of the 128 seats in the Senate of the Republic 65 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/– PRI Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza 50.24 95 +34 PAN Carlos Castillo Peraza 25.73 25 +24 PRD Porfirio Muñoz Ledo 16.83 8 +6 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chamber of Deputies
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All 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 251 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/– PRI Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza 50.28 300 −20 PAN Carlos Castillo Peraza 25.77 119 +30 PRD Porfirio Muñoz Ledo 16.71 71 +30 PT Alberto Anaya 2.65 10 +10 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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General elections were held in Mexico on 21 August 1994.^[1] The presidential elections resulted in a victory for Ernesto Zedillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whilst the PRI won 300 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 95 of the 128 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout ranged from 77.4% in the proportional representation section of the Chamber elections to 75.9% in the constituency section.

These were the first presidential elections in Mexico that were monitored by international observers. Turnout was just over 77% of those eligible. To date, the 1994 elections mark the last time a presidential candidate won in all 31 states and Mexico City.

Although tension did not reach the level it did around the 1988 election, most political analysts agree that voters (in the aftermath of the Zapatista uprising that began in January and the assassination of the original PRI candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio), opted for continuity by allowing the PRI to remain in power, fearing that the country might otherwise be destabilized. While the election itself was generally considered clean, with no major irregularities, there was much criticism directed at the inequity of the campaigns, with the ruling PRI having a disproportionate advantage in regards to campaign financing and mass media exposure.