1997 Mexican Legislative Election

The PRI loses the Chamber

6 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

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Institutional Revolutionary Party

38.5% of votes · +63 seats

seats

National Action Party

26.9% of votes · +24 seats

seats

Party of the Democratic Revolution

25.8% of votes · +6 seats

seats

Independents

+3 seats

seats

Ecologist Green Party of Mexico

4.0% of votes · 0 seats

seats

Labor Party

2.5% of votes · 0 seats

seats


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.