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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: The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. ... Felipe de JesÃºs CalderÃ³n Hinojosa (b. ... The Mexican Executive Cabinet is a part of the executive branch of the Mexican government consisting of eighteen Secretaries of State, the head of the federal executive legal office and the Attorney General. ... Congress (formally: Congreso de la UniÃ³n or Congress of the Union) is the legislative branch of the Mexican government. ... The Senate (Spanish: Cámara de Senadores or Senado) is the upper house of Mexicos bicameral Congress. ... The Chamber of Deputies (Spanish: CÃ¡mara de Diputados) is the lower house of Mexicos bicameral legislature, the Congress of the Union. ... The LX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico will be meeting from September 1, 2006, to August 31, 2009. ... The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) is the highest Federal court in the United Mexican States. ... This article lists political parties in Mexico. ... Politics of Mexico Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Mexico ... The general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, 21 August 1994. ... Mexico held a general election on Sunday, 2 July 2000. ... A number of elections, both federal and local, took place in Mexico during 2003: // Chamber of Deputies â€“ 500 federal deputies Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2003 Colima state election Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2003 Nuevo LeÃ³n state election Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2003 Sonora... A number of local elections took place in Mexico during 2004: // Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Chihuahua state election Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Durango state election Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Zacatecas state election Governor, state congress, and mayors See: 2004 Aguascalientes state... A number of local elections took place in Mexico during 2005: // Governor, five mayors, and 21 (15+6) local deputies See: 2005 Baja California Sur state election Governor, mayors, and local congress See: 2005 Guerrero state election Governor, eight mayors, and 25 (15+10) local deputies See: 2005 Quintana Roo... A number of elections on the federal and local level are scheduled to take place in Mexico during 2006. ... The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) is an autonomous, public organization responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those related to the election of president of the United Mexican States and to the election of Lower and Upper Chamber members that constitute the Mexican Union Congress. ... The United Mexican States or Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos or MÃ©xico) is a federal republic made up of 31 states (estados) and one Federal District, (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City. ... Traditionally, the Government of Mexico has sought to maintain its interests abroad and project its influence largely through moral persuasion. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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.

1 Presidential election
- 1.1 Election results
2 Legislative elections
- 2.1 Chamber of Deputies
- 2.2 Senate
3 See also

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (born December 12, 1934) was President of Mexico, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from December 1, 1982 to December 1, 1988. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican political party that wielded hegemonic power in the countryâ€”under a succession of namesâ€”for more than 70 years. ... Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born April 3, 1948) was President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. ... CuauhtÃ©moc CÃ¡rdenas SolÃ³rzano (born May 1, 1934) is a prominent Mexican politician. ... Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (born December 12, 1934) was President of Mexico, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from December 1, 1982 to December 1, 1988. ... Manuel Clouthier Manuel de JesÃºs Clouthier del RincÃ³n, also known as MaquÃo (June 13, 1934 â€“ October 1, 1989) was a Mexican businessman and politician affiliated to the conservative National Action Party (PAN). ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Chamber of Deputies is the name given to a legislative body, which may either be the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or the name of a unicameral one. ... The Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la RevoluciÃ³n DemocrÃ¡tica, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ...

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: Carlos MarÃa Abascal (2005â€“present) The Secretario de GobernaciÃ³n is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior of Mexico. ...

	Party/Alliance	Candidate	Votes	Percent
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	Carlos Salinas de Gortari	9,641,329	50.48
	National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS)	Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano	5,911,133	30.95
	National Action Party	Manuel de Jesús Clouthier del Rincón	3,267,159	17.11
	Mexican Democratic Party	Gumersindo Magaña Negrete	199,484	1.04
	Workers' Revolutionary Party	Rosario Ibarra de Piedra	80,052	0.42
Total votes			19,099,157	100.00

Source: El Universal

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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.

Chamber of Deputies

	Party	Deputies
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	260
	National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS)	139
	National Action Party	101

Senate

	Party	Senator
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	60
	National Democratic Front (PARM, PPS, PFCRN, PMS)	4

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. Image File history File links Larger version File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican political party that wielded hegemonic power in the countryâ€”under a succession of namesâ€”for more than 70 years. ... The Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (Partido AutÃ©ntico de la RevoluciÃ³n Mexicana) is a political party in Mexico. ... Popular Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Popular Socialista, PPS) is a left-wing political party in Mexico. ... The Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la RevoluciÃ³n DemocrÃ¡tica, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ...

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Election results

Legislative elections

Chamber of Deputies

Senate

See also

Presidential election