1988 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1988. They were the first competitive presidential elections in Mexico since the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) took power in 1929. The elections were widely considered to have been fraudulent, with the PRI resorting to electoral tampering to remain in power. PRI candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election, with the Secretariat of Interior reporting he received 51% of the vote. It was the lowest for a winning candidate since direct presidential elections were inaugurated in 1917; in all previous presidential elections, the PRI faced no serious opposition and won with well over 70% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the PRI won 260 of the 500 seats, as well as winning 60 of the 64 seats in the Senate election. Although early results from the parallel vote tabulation indicated that Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas was leading, when the official results were published, Salinas de Gortari...
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