Mexican legislative election, 2009

July 5, 2009

All 500 seats to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Beatriz Paredes Rangel	Germán Martínez	Alejandro Encinas
Party	PRI	PAN	PRD
Leader since	2007	2007	July 2009
Leader's seat	Jalisco	Chiapas	Federal District
Last election	121	206	136
Seats won	241	147	72
Seat change	135	59	54
Popular vote	12,591,855	9,549,798	4,164,393
Percentage	48.2%	29.4%	14.4%
Swing	24.0%	11.8%	10.8%

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Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 5 July 2009. Voters elected 500 new deputies (300 by their respective constituencies, 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 61st Congress.

Opinion Polling 1
Voto en blanco 2
Results 3
References 4

Opinion Polling

Opinion polling, by pollster Demotecnia, that was taken less than a month before the election showed the Institutional Revolutionary Party with 36%, the National Action Party with 31%, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution with 16%.^[1]

Voto en blanco

A none of the above movement, dubbed "voto en blanco", or "blank vote", had arisen in response to the perceived corruption of the three major parties running in this election. Starting as a small group on blogs and YouTube, the movement had expanded its ranks, with politicians and intellectuals, such as Jose Antonio Crespo, supporting the movement. Pollster Demotecnia showed that 3% of the people would be willing to boycott the elections in response to the "voto en blanco" movement.^[1]

Opposition to the movement came from organizations such as the Federal Electoral Institute, a government institute who seeks to expand voter participation, who claimed that the response to an unsatisfactory democracy is not to have fewer people vote but to have more people involved in the electoral process.

Results

**Summary of the 5 July 2009 Mexican Chamber of Deputies** election results
Party		Votes	% (of all votes)	Seats	+/−	%
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	12,591,855	36.68%	241	+135	48.2%
	National Action Party	9,549,798	27.98%	147	−59	29.4%
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	4,164,393	12.20%	72	−54	14.4%
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	2,291,298	6.71%	17	±0	3.4%
	Labor Party	1,258,341	3.68%	9	−2	1.8%
	New Alliance Party	1,164,999	3.41%	8	−1	1.6%
	Convergence	850,777	2.49%	6	−12	1.2%
	Social Democratic Party	353,261	1.03%	0	−5	—
	Independents	62,101	0.18%	0	−2	—
Valid votes		32,286,823	94.61%	500	—	100.0%
Invalid votes		1,839,971	5.39%
Total votes (turnout: 44.6%)		34,126,794	100.0%
Sources: El Universal, IFE PREP 2009

References

^ ^a ^b http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905313,00.html

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