2009 Mexican legislative election: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox legislative election

|country = Mexico

|previous_election = [[2006 Mexican general election|2006]]

|next_election = [[2012 Mexican general election|2012]]

|seats_for_election = All 500 seats in the [[Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)|Chamber of Deputies]]

| majority_seats = 251

|election_date = 5 July 2009

|leader1 = [[Beatriz Paredes Rangel]]

|party1 = Institutional Revolutionary Party

|last_election1 = 104

|seats1 = 237

|percentage1 = 39.05

|leader2 = [[Germán Martínez (Mexican politician)|Germán Martínez]]

|party2 = National Action Party (Mexico)

|last_election2 = 206

|seats2 = 143

|percentage2 = 29.61

|leader3 = [[Alejandro Encinas]]

|party3 = Party of the Democratic Revolution

|last_election3 = 126

|seats3 = 71

|percentage3 = 12.89

|leader4 = {{nowrap|[[Jorge Emilio González Martínez]]}}

|party4 = Ecologist Green Party of Mexico

|last_election4 = 19

|seats4 = 21

|percentage4 = 7.09

|leader5 = [[Alberto Anaya]]

|party5 = Labor Party (Mexico)

|last_election5 = 16

|seats5 = 13

|percentage5 = 3.87

|leader6 = [[Jorge Kahwagi]]

|party6 = New Alliance Party (Mexico)

|last_election6 = 9

|seats6 = 9

|percentage6 = 3.62

|leader7 = [[Luis Maldonado Venegas]]

|party7 = [[Citizens' Movement (Mexico)|Convergence]]

|last_election7 = 15

|seats7 = 6

|percentage7 = 2.60

}}{{Politics of Mexico}}

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

==Opinion polls==

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 (Mexico)|National Action Party]] with 31%, and the [[Party of the Democratic Revolution]] with 16%.<ref name="time.com">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090619235416/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905313,00.html Time (magazine)]</ref>

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.<ref name="time.com"/>

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==

{{Election results

|image=[[File:LXI Legislatura de la Camara de Diputados.svg]]

|firstround=Party-list|secondround=Constituency

|party1=[[Institutional Revolutionary Party]]|votes1=12809365|seats1=53|votes1_2=12702481|seats1_2=184|totseats1=237|sc1=+133

|party2=[[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]]|votes2=9714181|seats2=73|votes2_2=9679435|seats2_2=70|totseats2=143|sc2=–63

|party3=[[Party of the Democratic Revolution]]|votes3=4228627|seats3=32|votes3_2=4217985|seats3_2=39|totseats3=71|sc3=–55

|party4=[[Ecologist Green Party of Mexico]]|votes4=2326016|seats4=17|votes4_2=2254716|seats4_2=4|totseats4=21|sc4=+2

|party5=[[Labor Party (Mexico)|Labor Party]]|votes5=1268125|seats5=10|votes5_2=1234497|seats5_2=3|totseats5=13|sc5=–3

|party6=[[New Alliance Party (Mexico)|New Alliance Party]]|votes6=1186876|seats6=9|votes6_2=1181850|seats6_2=0|totseats6=9|sc6=0

|party7=[[Citizens' Movement (Mexico)|Convergence]]|votes7=854347|seats7=6|votes7_2=822001|seats7_2=0|totseats7=6|sc7=–9

|party8=[[Social Democratic Party (Mexico)|Social Democratic Party]]|votes8=358482|seats8=0|votes8_2=357003|seats8_2=0|totseats8=0|sc8=–4

|party9=Primero Mexico|votes9_2=126879|seats9_2=0|totseats9=0|sc9=New

|party10=Salvemos México|votes10_2=59351|seats10_2=0|totseats10=0|sc10=New

|party11=Non-registered candidates|votes11=56816|seats11=0|votes11_2=56417|seats11_2=0|totseats11=0|sc11=0

|total_sc=0

|invalid=1875088|invalid2=1867729

|electorate=77470785|electorate2=77470785

|source=[https://portalanterior.ine.mx/documentos/OE/prontuario2009/Prontuario_2009.pdf INE]

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==References==

[[Category:2009 elections in North America|Mexico]]

[[Category:Legislative elections in Mexico]]

[[Category:July 2009 events in Mexico]]

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