Mexican general election, 1988

July 6, 1988



Nominee	Carlos Salinas de Gortari	Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas	Manuel Clouthier
Party	PRI	FDN	PAN
Home state	Mexico City	Mexico City	Sinaloa
Popular vote	9,687,926	5,929,585	3,208,584
Percentage	50.70%	31.10%	16.80%

President before election

Miguel de la Madrid
PRI

Elected President

Carlos Salinas de Gortari
PRI

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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 Results
2 References

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Carlos Salinas de Gortari	Institutional Revolutionary Party	9,687,926	50.7
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas	National Democratic Front	5,929,585	31.1
Manuel Clouthier	National Action Party	3,208,584	16.8
Gumersindo Magaña Negrete	Mexican Democratic Party	190,891	1.0
Rosario Ybarra	Revolutionary Workers' Party	416,448	1.9
Invalid/blank votes		548,879	–
Total		19,640,722	100
Source: Nohlen

Senate

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Institutional Revolutionary Party	9,263,810	50.8	60	-3
National Action Party	3,293,460	18.1	0	0
Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction	1,727,376	9.5	4	+3
Popular Socialist Party	1,702,203	9.3
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	1,154,811	6.3
Mexican Socialist Party	770,659	4.2
Mexican Democratic Party	223,631	1.2
Revolutionary Workers' Party	76,135	0.4	0	0
Non-registered candidates	13,222	0.1	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	689,542	–	–	–
Total	18,915,722	100	64	0
Source: Nohlen

Chamber of Deputies

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Institutional Revolutionary Party	9,276,934	51.0	260	-32
National Action Party	3,276,824	18.0	101	+63
Party of the Cardenist Front of National Reconstruction¹	1,704,532	9.4	38	New
Popular Socialist Party¹	1,673,863	9.2	37	+26
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution¹	1,124,575	6.2	30	+19
Mexican Socialist Party¹	810,372	4.5	18	0
Mexican Democratic Party	244,458	1.3	0	-12
Revolutionary Workers' Party	88,637	0.5	0	-6
National Democratic Front	–	–	15	New
Invalid/blank votes	620,220	–	–	–
Total	18,820,415	100	500	+100
Source: Nohlen

¹ Several parties were part of the National Democratic Front alliance, with some candidates running separately under the name "Coalition".^[3]

References

^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p453 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
^ Nohlen, pp471-474
^ ^a ^b Nohlen, p469
^ Nohlen, p470
^ Nohlen, p454
^ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/world/ex-president-in-mexico-casts-new-light-on-rigged-1988-election.html

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