1997 Mexican Legislative Election
The PRI loses the Chamber6 July 1997 · The plural Chamber · 500 seats
Legislative elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1997. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won 239 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the first time it had failed to win a majority.
President before
Ernesto Zedillo
PRI
President (continued)
Ernesto Zedillo
PRI
Largest force
Institutional Revolutionary Party
13 of 500 seats
Turnout
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The result
| Share of the Chamber | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional Revolutionary Party | — | 13 | +63 | 11,266,155 | 38.5% | — | |
| National Action Party | — | 9 | +24 | 7,881,121 | 26.9% | — | |
| Party of the Democratic Revolution | — | 8 | +6 | 7,564,656 | 25.8% | — | |
| Independents | — | 3 | +3 | — | — | — | |
| Ecologist Green Party of Mexico | — | 1 | 0 | 1,180,004 | 4.0% | — | |
| Labor Party | — | 1 | 0 | 745,881 | 2.5% | — |
465 further seats went to parties and independents outside the main contenders listed above.