Mexican general election, 2000

Mexican general election, 2000
Mexico
July 2, 2000

 
Nominee Vicente Fox Francisco Labastida Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Party PAN PRI PRD
Home state Guanajuato Sinaloa Mexico City
Popular vote 15,989,636 13,579,718 6,256,780
Percentage 42.52% 36.11% 16.64%

States won by the presidential candidates (blue for Fox, green for Labastida and yellow for Cárdenas)

President before election

Ernesto Zedillo
PRI

Elected President

Vicente Fox
PAN

A general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2000. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:

Several local ballots were also held on the same day, most notably:

This a historically significant election that made Fox the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910 and the first one in 71 years to defeat, with 42 percent of the vote, the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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Despite some isolated incidents of irregularities and problems, such as one in the southern state of Campeche which involved the European Union electoral observer Rocco Buttiglione and which could have created problems for President Ernesto Zedillo had the PRI candidate won, there was little evidence that those incidents were centrally coordinated (as opposed to led by local PRI officials) and critics concluded that the irregularities that occurred did not alter the outcome of the presidential vote, which was more definitive than expected. Civic organizations fielded more than 80,000 trained electoral observers, foreign observers were invited to witness the process, and numerous "quick count" operations and exit polls (not all of them independent) validated the official vote tabulation. The largest exit poll was organized by the U.S. firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, financed by a hitherto obscure outfit in Dallas called Democracy Watch (later it emerged that Democracy Watch was essentially set up by Fox campaign insiders to help prevent an expected election fraud).

Numerous electoral reforms implemented since 1989 aided in the opening of the Mexican political system, and since then opposition parties made historic gains in elections at all levels. The chief electoral concerns shifted from outright fraud to campaign fairness issues and, between 1995 and 1996, the political parties negotiated constitutional amendments to address these issues. The legislation implemented included major points of consensus that had been worked out with the opposition parties. Under the new laws, public financing predominated over private contributions to political parties, procedures for auditing parties were tightened, and the authority and independence of the electoral institutions were strengthened. The court system was also given greatly expanded authority to hear civil rights cases on electoral matters brought by individuals or groups. In short, the extensive reform efforts of the 1990s "leveled the playing field" for the parties.

Candidate Party Votes %
Vicente Fox QuesadaAlliance for Change15,989,63642.52
Francisco Labastida OchoaInstitutional Revolutionary Party13,579,71836.11
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas SolórzanoAlliance for Mexico6,256,78016.64
Gilberto Rincón GallardoSocial Democracy592,3811.58
Manuel Camacho SolísParty of the Democratic Center206,5890.55
Porfirio Muñoz LedoAuthentic Party of the Mexican Revolution156,8960.42
Other candidates30,4610.1
Invalid/blank votes788,157
Total37,601,618100
Source: Nohlen

Results by state

Based on the official results of the Federal Electoral Institute

State Fox Labastida Cárdenas Rincón Camacho Muñoz Write-in None
Aguascalientes202,335127,13426,2649,4672,2021,38983 6,291
Baja California429,194319,47777,34014,5623,4703,080507 14,965
Baja California Sur60,83456,23045,2292,10746036417 2,804
Campeche104,498106,34735,0902,4851,4061,247559 9,309
Chiapas288,204469,392272,1825,3404,6594,0631,05644,551
Chihuahua549,177460,93176,81011,5694,4873,16660921,350
Coahuila398,800311,48077,39310,3922,1111,8801,45412,464
Colima106,44581,09923,3133,1591,028542394,377
Distrito Federal1,928,0351,060,2271,146,131149,31236,38318,8432,00975,669
Durango211,361222,89250,5926,1441,5791,4698599,294
Guanajuato1,128,780517,815121,48918,24810,8008,4732,87349,039
Guerrero174,962402,091332,0916,1792,9133,00395420,180
Hidalgo282,864355,565136,86112,3195,0344,07875819,997
Jalisco1,392,535941,962163,26945,49417,56711,1103,28748,736
México2,239,7501,637,714961,876121,13740,73327,2033,41692,743
Michoacán419,188441,871543,80413,0587,4446,4042,06030,448
Morelos290,639193,861124,36812,5392,9163,01013612,296
Nayarit107,417173,47963,1213,0921,1751,0243517,043
Nuevo León760,093615,90796,63720,4487,4782,6581,51927,201
Oaxaca301,195486,496282,58711,0748,3727,3051,85139,616
Puebla732,435698,974208,68820,1708,6097,8491,14244,305
Querétaro290,977192,62239,62910,5853,7688,67017013,849
Quintana Roo132,38394,20250,4872,399916729705,216
San Luis Potosí393,997324,23472,59911,0733,3062,28740722,673
Sinaloa230,777621,32990,4887,2052,1891,6751,29015,920
Sonora447,496292,267114,5806,4261,6721,3259413,269
Tabasco174,840269,519213,9835,8172,5991,73265514,036
Tamaulipas521,486445,73791,4269,3873,2106,9321,15719,659
Tlaxcala123,880127,16382,0735,1852,5081,450536,639
Veracruz1,066,7191,008,933491,79125,47411,34310,95698558,630
Yucatán328,503321,39227,2144,2581,34498760213,127
Zacatecas169,837197,336117,3756,2772,9081,99343912,461
Total15,989,63613,579,7186,256,780592,381206,589156,89631,461788,157

Congress of the Union

Senate

Party Constituency PR Seats +/-
Votes % Votes %
Alliance for Change14,208,97338.114,339,96338.260-17
Institutional Revolutionary Party13,699,79936.713,755,78736.751+17
Alliance for Mexico7,027,94418.97,027,99418.816-1
Social Democracy669,7251.8676,3881.80New
Democratic Central Party521,1781.4523,5691.41New
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution275,0510.7276,1090.70New
Non-registered candidates31,0790.130,8920.10
Invalid/blank votes852,106854,459
Total37,285,85510037,534,6411001280
Source: Nohlen

Chamber of Deputies

Party Constituency PR Seats +/-
Votes % Votes %
Alliance for Change14,212,47638.214,323,64938.2224+95
Institutional Revolutionary Party13,720,45336.913,800,30636.9207-31
Alliance for Mexico6,948,20418.76,990,14318.767-67
Social Democracy698,6831.9703,5321.90New
Democratic Central Party428,5771.2430,8121.20New
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution272,4250.7273,6150.70New
Other parties30,3800.130,4520.10
Independents----2New
Invalid/blank votes863,262868,516
Total37,174,46010037,421,0251005000
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p453 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. Nohlen, p475
  3. Nohlen, p470
  4. Nohlen, p455
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