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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2005 
Final Results Confirm Landslide Victory for Former Ruling Party in Mexico's Biggest State
 Associated Press
| | The Institutional Revolutionary Party (known by its Spanish acronym PRI) monopolized control over Mexicos local, state, and national government. From the 1920s to the 1980s, the party maintained tight control over the administration of Mexico City and the Federal District. |
Toluca, Mexico The party that ruled Mexico for seven straight decades received just under 48 percent of the votes cast to easily take the governorship of the nation's most-populist state, according to final results released Wednesday night.
Some 1,801,788 voters in Mexico state cast ballots for Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Jose Nunes, president of the state electoral commission, said in Toluca, the state capital, 35 miles (55 kilometers) west of Mexico City.
Finishing a distance second was Ruben Mendoza, of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party, who received 936,773 votes 27.4 percent of the nearly 3.8 million cast during the election Sunday.
Yeidckol Polevnsky, of the left-leaning Democratic Revolution Party, got 918,658 votes a bit more than three percent behind Mendoza.
Turnout was light in the state that is home to 15 million and is draped over the western, northern and eastern boundaries of Mexico City.
All parties will now have four days to challenge the official results. Democratic Revolution has said it plans to file a grievance with election officials charging that Pena Nieto, who also ran with the little-known Green Party, violated campaign spending limits.
Its landslide victory helped Institutional Revolutionary add momentum for the July 2006 presidential race. The party controlled the presidency from 1929 until its historic defeat at the hands of Fox in 2000. The president is barred by law from seeking a second term. |
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