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General elections were held in México on July 6, 1988.[1] The presidential elections were won by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who received 50.7% of the vote, the lowest for a winning candidate since direct elections were introduced for the presidency in 1917.[2] In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 260 of the 500 seats,[3] as well as winning 60 of the 64 seats in the Senate election.[4] Voter turnout was 51.6% in the presidential election, 49.7% for the Senate elections and 49.4% for the Chamber election.[5]
Years later, former president Miguel de la Madrid admitted to the New York Times and in an autobiography that the presidential elections had been rigged to make the Institutional Revolutionary Party win, and that three years after the election, all ballots were burnt in order to remove all evidence of the fraud. [6]
¹ Several parties were part of the National Democratic Front alliance, with some candidates running separately under the name "Coalition".[3]
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