1994 Mexican Presidential Election
The Colosio year21 August 1994 · Transition and alternation
General elections were held in Mexico on 21 August 1994. The presidential elections resulted in a victory for Ernesto Zedillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whilst the PRI won 300 of the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 95 of the 128 seats in the Senate.
President before
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
PRI
Elected President
Ernesto Zedillo
PRI
Winning share
50.1%
Turnout
77.2%
The result
Ernesto Zedillo
PRI · 17,181,651 votes
50.13%
share
Diego Fernández de Cevallos
PAN · 9,146,841 votes
26.69%
share
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
PRD · 5,852,134 votes
17.07%
share