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1964 Mexican Presidential Election

1964 · The PRI's hegemony

The 1964 election was the first to use the party deputy mechanism: a form of proportional representation through which three parties other than the hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – none of which won any first-past-the-post districts – were allocated 32 seats.

Held under the hegemonic-party system: opposition parties appeared on the ballot, but the machinery of state made the official candidate's victory a foregone conclusion.

President before

Adolfo López Mateos

PRI

Elected President

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

PRI

Winning share

88.8%

Turnout

The result

Gustavo Díaz OrdazPRI8,368,44688.82%
José González TorresPAN1,034,33710.98%