✶ History · 1917–2026
One party, then
alternation.
The Constitution of 5 February 1917 still governs Mexico. From 1929 to 2000 every president came from one party, founded as the PNR and known since 1946 as the PRI. Opposition seats in Congress were introduced by reform, step by step, until the PRI lost the Chamber in 1997, the presidency in 2000, and a new party, Morena, won both in 2018.
5 February 1917 · Querétaro
A revolutionary
constitution.
Drafted by a congress called by Venustiano Carranza at the end of the armed phase of the Revolution, the Constitution kept the 1857 federal structure and added social rights: secular public education (art. 3), national ownership of land, water and subsoil, with the basis for land reform and the ejido (art. 27), and labour rights (art. 123). It has been amended 285 times.
Its electoral rules have been rewritten more than its structure. The bodies that run elections moved from the Interior Ministry (1946) to an autonomous IFE (1996) and the INE (2014); the Chamber grew from about 150 seats to 500; the Senate from 64 to 128; women gained the federal vote in 1953; and judges have been elected since 2025. Chronology of reforms ↗
The thread · no reelección
Never again,
since 1910.
- 1910
“Sufragio efectivo. No reelección”
Francisco I. Madero's Plan de San Luis calls the revolt against Porfirio Díaz, president for most of the years since 1876. The phrase became the customary closing line of official correspondence.
- 1917
Art. 83, original text
The President serves four years and can never be re-elected.
- 1927–1928
A pause
Amendments allow one non-consecutive re-election and extend the term to six years. Álvaro Obregón is elected again on 1 July 1928 and assassinated on 17 July, before taking office.
- 1933
The absolute ban
DOF 29 April 1933: no one who has held the presidency in any capacity may hold it again; deputies, senators and municipal officers may not serve consecutive terms.
- 2014
Legislators and mayors may run again
DOF 10 February 2014: deputies up to four consecutive terms, senators two, municipal officers one, from the 2018 elections.
- 2025
Banned again from 2030
DOF 1 April 2025: no consecutive re-election for any elected office from the 2030 elections, and no immediate succession by relatives (electoral nepotism).
Sources: CPEUM art. 83 and its reform notes; DOF 10 February 2014 and 1 April 2025 (decree ↗); 1910 and 1927–28: secondary.
PNR 1929 · PRM 1938 · PRI 1946
Seventy-one years
of one party.
After the assassination of president-elect Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles gathered the revolutionary factions into the Partido Nacional Revolucionario in March 1929. Lázaro Cárdenas rebuilt it in 1938 as the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, organised in workers', peasants', popular and military sectors; in 1946 it became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Its candidates won every presidential election from 1929 to 1994, and it held the presidency through 14 presidents, from Emilio Portes Gil (December 1928) to Ernesto Zedillo, who left office on 30 November 2000.
Each President chose his party's successor, a practice known as the dedazo (secondary), and the Interior Ministry ran the elections until 1990. Opposition parties won seats mostly through the reforms of 1963 (party deputies), 1977 (proportional seats) and 1986–1996, each of which widened the share of the Chamber not won in districts.
Congress by legislature · tap a bar
Seats by party,
1946 to 2024.
The PRI's share of the Chamber stayed above 80% until the 1977 reform, fell below half in 1997, and was 7% in 2024.
- 1 1964: Party deputies (1963 reform)
- 2 1979: 400 seats, 100 PR (LOPPE 1977)
- 3 1988: 500 seats
- 4 1997: PRI loses its majority
- 5 2018: Morena
- 6 2024: Two-thirds coalition
XL Legislature · elected 1946
145 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 141 97.2%
- Other / not broken down 4 2.8%
https://www.diputados.gob.mx/Asesor-Legislativo/docs/10.Plenos/Evoluci%C3%B3n%20del%20Pleno.docx
XLI Legislature · elected 1949
147 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 142 96.6%
- Other / not broken down 5 3.4%
XLII Legislature · elected 1952
158 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 151 95.6%
- Other / not broken down 7 4.4%
XLIII Legislature · elected 1955
160 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 153 95.6%
- Other / not broken down 7 4.4%
XLIV Legislature · elected 1958
161 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 153 95.0%
- Other / not broken down 8 5.0%
XLV Legislature · elected 1961
178 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Official
- PRI 172 96.6%
- Other / not broken down 6 3.4%
XLVI Legislature · elected 1964
210 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 175 83.3%
- PAN 20 9.5%
- PPS 10 4.8%
- PARM 5 2.4%
First legislature with diputados de partido; totals and PRI seats match the Cámara's table.
XLVII Legislature · elected 1967
212 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 177 83.5%
- PAN 20 9.4%
- PPS 10 4.7%
- PARM 5 2.4%
XLVIII Legislature · elected 1970
213 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 178 83.6%
- PAN 20 9.4%
- PPS 10 4.7%
- PARM 5 2.3%
XLIX Legislature · elected 1973
231 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 189 81.8%
- PAN 25 10.8%
- PPS 10 4.3%
- PARM 7 3.0%
1972 reform: 1.5% threshold, up to 25 party deputies.
L Legislature · elected 1976
237 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 195 82.3%
- PAN 20 8.4%
- PPS 12 5.1%
- PARM 10 4.2%
LI Legislature · elected 1979
400 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 296 74.0%
- PAN 43 10.8%
- PCM 18 4.5%
- PARM 12 3.0%
- PPS 11 2.8%
- PST 10 2.5%
- PDM 10 2.5%
First Chamber of 400 (300 districts + 100 PR) under the 1977 LOPPE.
LII Legislature · elected 1982
400 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 299 74.8%
- PAN 51 12.8%
- PSUM 17 4.3%
- PDM 12 3.0%
- PST 11 2.8%
- PPS 10 2.5%
LIII Legislature · elected 1985
400 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 292 73.0%
- PAN 38 9.5%
- PST 12 3.0%
- PSUM 12 3.0%
- PDM 12 3.0%
- PPS 11 2.8%
- PARM 11 2.8%
- PMT 6 1.5%
- PRT 6 1.5%
LIV Legislature · elected 1988
500 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 260 52.0%
- PAN 101 20.2%
- PPS 49 9.8%
- PFCRN 36 7.2%
- PARM 30 6.0%
- PMS 24 4.8%
First Chamber of 500 (300 + 200 PR); the PRI's 260 is the smallest share it had held until then (52%).
LV Legislature · elected 1991
500 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 320 64.0%
- PAN 89 17.8%
- PRD 41 8.2%
- PFCRN 23 4.6%
- PARM 15 3.0%
- PPS 12 2.4%
LVI Legislature · elected 1994
500 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 300 60.0%
- PAN 119 23.8%
- PRD 71 14.2%
- PT 10 2.0%
LVII Legislature · elected 1997
500 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 239 47.8%
- PRD 125 25.0%
- PAN 121 24.2%
- PVEM 8 1.6%
- PT 7 1.4%
First Chamber without a PRI majority.
LVIII Legislature · elected 2000
500 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 211 42.2%
- PAN 206 41.2%
- PRD 50 10.0%
- PVEM 17 3.4%
- PT 8 1.6%
- PSN 3 0.6%
- MC 3 0.6%
- PAS 2 0.4%
MC = Convergencia por la Democracia.
LIX Legislature · elected 2003
500 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 224 44.8%
- PAN 151 30.2%
- PRD 97 19.4%
- PVEM 17 3.4%
- PT 6 1.2%
- MC 5 1.0%
LX Legislature · elected 2006
500 seats · largest PAN · source: Secondary
- PAN 206 41.2%
- PRD 126 25.2%
- PRI 104 20.8%
- PVEM 19 3.8%
- PT 16 3.2%
- MC 16 3.2%
- PANAL 9 1.8%
- PASC 4 0.8%
LXI Legislature · elected 2009
500 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 237 47.4%
- PAN 143 28.6%
- PRD 71 14.2%
- PVEM 21 4.2%
- PT 13 2.6%
- PANAL 9 1.8%
- MC 6 1.2%
LXII Legislature · elected 2012
500 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 207 41.4%
- PAN 114 22.8%
- PRD 100 20.0%
- PVEM 34 6.8%
- PT 19 3.8%
- MC 16 3.2%
- PANAL 10 2.0%
LXIII Legislature · elected 2015
500 seats · largest PRI · source: INE / IFE
- PRI 203 40.6%
- PAN 109 21.8%
- PRD 55 11.0%
- PVEM 47 9.4%
- Morena 35 7.0%
- MC 25 5.0%
- PANAL 11 2.2%
- PES 8 1.6%
- PT 6 1.2%
- Independent 1 0.2%
INE/CG804/2015 (PR allocation, PRI capped at 203 by the 8-point rule); PAN's 109 includes Aguascalientes district 1, won in the December 2015 re-run.
LXIV Legislature · elected 2018
500 seats · largest Morena · source: INE / IFE
- Morena 191 38.2%
- PAN 81 16.2%
- PT 61 12.2%
- PES 56 11.2%
- PRI 45 9.0%
- MC 27 5.4%
- PRD 21 4.2%
- PVEM 16 3.2%
- PANAL 2 0.4%
INE allocation, CICIE bulletin no. 20 (2018). Morena's group reached 247 at installation after members elected for allies joined it.
LXV Legislature · elected 2021
500 seats · largest Morena · source: INE / IFE
- Morena 198 39.6%
- PAN 114 22.8%
- PRI 70 14.0%
- PVEM 43 8.6%
- PT 37 7.4%
- MC 23 4.6%
- PRD 15 3.0%
INE allocation of 23 August 2021.
LXVI Legislature · elected 2024
500 seats · largest Morena · source: INE / IFE
- Morena 236 47.2%
- PVEM 77 15.4%
- PAN 72 14.4%
- PT 51 10.2%
- PRI 35 7.0%
- MC 27 5.4%
- PRD 1 0.2%
- Independent 1 0.2%
INE allocation of 23 August 2024, upheld by the TEPJF on 28 August: Morena, PVEM and PT 364 seats (72.8%) with about 54% of the vote. Groups at installation: Cámara bulletin 0001, 29 August 2024.
- 1 1988: First opposition senators (FDN)
- 2 1994: 128 seats, first minority
- 3 1997: 32 national-list seats
- 4 2000: PRI below half
- 5 2018: Morena
L–LI Legislature · elected 1976
64 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 63 98.4%
- PPS 1 1.6%
Jorge Cruickshank García (PPS, Oaxaca), elected on a PRI–PPS ticket: the only non-PRI senator before 1988.
LII–LIII Legislature · elected 1982
64 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 64 100.0%
LIV Legislature · elected 1988
64 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 60 93.8%
- FDN 4 6.3%
FDN senators from Mexico City and Michoacán (Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Ifigenia Martínez, Cristóbal Arias, Roberto Robles Garnica).
LV Legislature · elected 1991
64 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 61 95.3%
- PRD 2 3.1%
- PAN 1 1.6%
Half the Senate renewed in 1991 (unverified breakdown).
LVI Legislature · elected 1994
128 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 95 74.2%
- PAN 25 19.5%
- PRD 8 6.3%
First Senate of 128 (four per state: three by majority, one first minority).
LVII Legislature · elected 1997
128 seats · largest PRI (majority alone) · source: Secondary
- PRI 77 60.2%
- PAN 33 25.8%
- PRD 16 12.5%
- PT 1 0.8%
- PVEM 1 0.8%
32 seats elected by national PR in 1997 (unverified breakdown).
LVIII–LIX Legislature · elected 2000
128 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 60 46.9%
- PAN 46 35.9%
- PRD 15 11.7%
- PVEM 5 3.9%
- PT 1 0.8%
- MC 1 0.8%
LX–LXI Legislature · elected 2006
128 seats · largest PAN · source: Secondary
- PAN 52 40.6%
- PRI 33 25.8%
- PRD 26 20.3%
- PVEM 6 4.7%
- MC 6 4.7%
- PT 4 3.1%
- PANAL 1 0.8%
LXII–LXIII Legislature · elected 2012
128 seats · largest PRI · source: Secondary
- PRI 52 40.6%
- PAN 38 29.7%
- PRD 22 17.2%
- PVEM 9 7.0%
- PT 4 3.1%
- MC 2 1.6%
- PANAL 1 0.8%
LXIV–LXV Legislature · elected 2018
128 seats · largest Morena · source: INE / IFE
- Morena 55 43.0%
- PAN 23 18.0%
- PRI 14 10.9%
- PRD 8 6.3%
- PES 8 6.3%
- MC 7 5.5%
- PT 6 4.7%
- PVEM 6 4.7%
- PANAL 1 0.8%
LXVI–LXVII Legislature · elected 2024
128 seats · largest Morena · source: INE / IFE
- Morena 60 46.9%
- PAN 22 17.2%
- PRI 16 12.5%
- PVEM 14 10.9%
- PT 9 7.0%
- MC 5 3.9%
- PRD 2 1.6%
INE allocation of 23 August 2024: Morena, PVEM and PT 83 seats, short of two-thirds (86).
- PRI
- Other / not broken down
- PPS
- PARM
- PAN
- PST
- PCM
- PDM
- PSUM
- PMT
- PRT
- PFCRN
- PMS
- PRD
- PT
- PVEM
- PSN
- PAS
- MC
- PANAL
- PASC
- Morena
- PES
- Independent
- FDN
- PRI share of seats
Seats as allocated at the start of each legislature, by nominating party. 1946–1961: Cámara de Diputados totals and PRI seats only, the opposition not broken down. Each bar names its source kind; “secondary” rows come from Wikipedia's election articles.
Presidents · 23 under the 1917 Constitution
Sexenios,
in party colours.
- PLC
- PLM
- PNR
- PRM
- PRI
- PAN
- Morena
- Interim, substitute or provisional
- 1917–1920 Venustiano Carranza
- 1920–1920 Adolfo de la Huerta
- 1920–1924 Álvaro Obregón
- 1924–1928 Plutarco Elías Calles
- 1928–1930 Emilio Portes Gil
- 1930–1932 Pascual Ortiz Rubio
- 1932–1934 Abelardo L. Rodríguez
- 1934–1940 Lázaro Cárdenas del Río
- 1940–1946 Manuel Ávila Camacho
- 1946–1952 Miguel Alemán Valdés
- 1952–1958 Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
- 1958–1964 Adolfo López Mateos
- 1964–1970 Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
- 1970–1976 Luis Echeverría Álvarez
- 1976–1982 José López Portillo
- 1982–1988 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado
- 1988–1994 Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- 1994–2000 Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
- 2000–2006 Vicente Fox Quesada
- 2006–2012 Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
- 2012–2018 Enrique Peña Nieto
- 2018–2024 Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- 2024–2030 (term) Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo
Vote share: INE's convention (share of all votes cast) from 1994; earlier, share of valid votes from Nohlen's tables, as transcribed in Wikipedia (secondary). Before 1934 the term was four years; six since. The line marks today.
In three dimensions
Six years
at a time.
19 presidencies, 17 six-year terms
This 3D view needs WebGL. The timeline on this page lists the same presidencies, terms and vote shares.
One sector per president, 1 December 1928 to 30 September 2030 · width = time in office · height = official vote share (share of valid votes before 1994, of all votes cast from 1994; INE) · the ring stays open after 2030
- PNR · PRM · PRI · 1928–2000, 2012–18
- PAN · 2000–12
- Morena · 2018–30
- Named by Congress, not elected: Emilio Portes Gil (interim, 1928–1930); Abelardo L. Rodríguez (substitute, 1932–1934)
The six-year term dates from the reform of article 83 published on 24 January 1928; the ban on any re-election of a president has been absolute since the reform of 29 April 1933 (Sufragio efectivo. No reelección.). The 2014 reform moved the handover to 1 October from 2024, so the 2018–24 term ran five years and ten months.
Presidential elections · 21
Every presidential
result.
| Year | Winner | Share | Runner-up | Share | Turnout | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Claudia Sheinbaum Morena | 59.76% | Xóchitl Gálvez PAN | 27.45% | 61.1% | INE / IFE |
| 2018 | Andrés Manuel López Obrador Morena | 53.19% | Ricardo Anaya PAN | 22.28% | 63.4% | INE / IFE |
| 2012 | Enrique Peña Nieto PRI | 38.21% | Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD | 31.61% | 63.1% | INE / IFE |
| 2006 | Felipe Calderón PAN | 35.89% | Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD | 35.31% | 58.6% | INE / IFE |
| 2000 | Vicente Fox PAN | 42.52% | Francisco Labastida PRI | 36.11% | 64.0% | INE / IFE |
| 1994 | Ernesto Zedillo PRI | 48.69% | Diego Fernández de Cevallos PAN | 25.92% | 77.2% | INE / IFE |
| 1988 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari PRI | 48.93% | Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas FDN | 29.95% | 52.0% | Secondary |
| 1982 | Miguel de la Madrid PRI | 70.99% | Pablo Emilio Madero PAN | 15.68% | 74.8% | Secondary |
| 1976 | José López Portillo PRI | 98.18% | — | — | ≈64.6% | Secondary |
| 1970 | Luis Echeverría PRI | 86.02% | Efraín González Morfín PAN | 13.98% | ≈64.3% | Secondary |
| 1964 | Gustavo Díaz Ordaz PRI | 88.82% | José González Torres PAN | 10.98% | ≈69.3% | Secondary |
| 1958 | Adolfo López Mateos PRI | 90.44% | Luis H. Álvarez PAN | 9.42% | ≈71.7% | Secondary |
| 1952 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines PRI | 74.31% | Miguel Henríquez Guzmán | 15.88% | ≈74.2% | Secondary |
| 1946 | Miguel Alemán Valdés PRI | 77.87% | Ezequiel Padilla | 19.32% | ≈89.7% | Secondary |
| 1940 | Manuel Ávila Camacho PRM | 93.90% | Juan Andreu Almazán | 5.73% | — | Secondary |
| 1934 | Lázaro Cárdenas PNR | 98.19% | Antonio I. Villarreal | 1.08% | — | Secondary |
| 1929 | Pascual Ortiz Rubio PNR | 93.55% | José Vasconcelos | 5.33% | — | Secondary |
| 1928 | Álvaro Obregón PLM | 100.00% | — | — | — | Secondary |
| 1924 | Plutarco Elías Calles PLM | 84.14% | Ángel Flores | 15.85% | — | Secondary |
| 1920 | Álvaro Obregón PLC | 95.79% | Alfredo Robles Domínguez | 4.02% | — | Secondary |
| 1917 | Venustiano Carranza PLC | 97.17% | Pablo González Garza | 1.42% | — | Secondary |
Shares: INE convention (all votes cast, null included) where available, from 1982; earlier, share of valid votes. Before 1982 null votes were not reported and turnout is approximate. 1917–1988: Nohlen, Elections in the Americas (2005), via Wikipedia (secondary); 1994–2024: IFE/INE cómputos.
Turning points · 28
From the PNR
to Plan B.
- 4 March 1929
The PNR is founded
After the assassination of president-elect Álvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles called the revolutionary factions to a convention in Querétaro (1–4 March 1929) that founded the Partido Nacional Revolucionario. It gathered regional parties and military leaders into one organisation and nominated every president for the next 71 years under its successive names.
- 30 March 1938
PNR becomes the PRM
Lázaro Cárdenas reorganised the party as the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana, built on four sectors — workers, peasants, the popular sector and the military — through which unions and agrarian organisations were incorporated into the party.
Secondary Wikipedia (secondary) ↗
- 18 January 1946
PRM becomes the PRI
The party took its present name, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, dropping the military sector. The same month a new Federal Electoral Law placed the organisation of elections under a federal commission controlled by the executive.
Secondary Wikipedia (secondary) ↗
- 17 October 1953
Women gain the federal vote
An amendment to article 34 of the Constitution, published in the DOF on 17 October 1953, gave women the right to vote and stand in federal elections (they had voted in municipal elections since 1947). Women first voted in a federal election on 3 July 1955.
Official DOF 17 October 1953 (Cámara de Diputados chronology) ↗
- 22 June 1963
Party deputies
A reform of article 54 created diputados de partido: a registered party with at least 2.5% of the national vote received five seats plus one for each further 0.5%, up to 20, minus the districts it had won. It gave the opposition a guaranteed presence in the Chamber from 1964 while the PRI kept the districts.
Official DOF 22 June 1963 ↗
- 2 October 1968
Tlatelolco
Troops and security forces opened fire on a student rally in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City ten days before the Olympic Games. The number of dead has never been officially established. The events became a reference point for later demands for political opening.
Secondary Wikipedia (secondary) ↗
- 6 December 1977
Political reform and the LOPPE
After the 1976 election, in which José López Portillo was the only registered candidate, Interior Secretary Jesús Reyes Heroles led a reform that enlarged the Chamber to 400 (300 districts and 100 proportional seats for minority parties) and, through the Ley Federal de Organizaciones Políticas y Procesos Electorales (DOF 30 December 1977), allowed the Communist Party and others to register.
- 6 July 1988
The 1988 count
On election night the results system stopped reporting (the 'caída del sistema'). Carlos Salinas de Gortari was declared the winner with just over half the vote against Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who had left the PRI and led a front of smaller parties, and Manuel Clouthier (PAN); both contested the result. The ballots were later burned by agreement of Congress in 1991.
Secondary Wikipedia (secondary) ↗
- 11 October 1990
The IFE
A constitutional reform (DOF 6 April 1990) and the new Código Federal de Instituciones y Procedimientos Electorales (COFIPE, DOF 15 August 1990) created the Instituto Federal Electoral, installed on 11 October 1990, with a new voter register and a photo voter card. Its General Council was still chaired by the Interior Secretary.
- 21 August 1994
1994
The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1 January) and the assassination of PRI candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio (23 March) preceded the election. A reform in April introduced citizen councillors on the IFE's council. Ernesto Zedillo won with 48.7% on a turnout of 77%, the highest of any presidential election organised by the IFE or INE.
INE / IFE IFE cómputo 1994 ↗
- 22 August 1996
The 1996 reform: an autonomous IFE
Agreed by all main parties, the reform removed the executive from the IFE (its council became nine citizen councillors), moved the Electoral Tribunal into the federal judiciary, capped any party at 300 deputies and at 8 points of over-representation, raised the threshold to 2%, added 32 proportional Senate seats and made Mexico City's head of government elective.
Official DOF 22 August 1996 ↗
- 6 July 1997
The PRI loses the Chamber
For the first time the PRI fell short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies (239 of 500), and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (PRD) was elected the first head of government of the Federal District.
- 2 July 2000
Alternation: Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox (PAN, with the PVEM) won the presidency with 42.5%, ending 71 years of government by the PRI and its predecessors. President Zedillo recognised the result on election night.
INE / IFE IFE cómputo 2000 ↗
- 2 July 2006
A 0.56-point election
Felipe Calderón (PAN) finished 243,934 votes ahead of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD-PT-Convergencia). López Obrador demanded a full recount; the Electoral Tribunal ordered a partial one and declared Calderón president-elect on 5 September 2006.
Official TEPJF dictamen, 5 September 2006 ↗
- 13 November 2007
The 2007 reform: broadcast time
Parties and third parties were barred from buying radio and television time; campaign advertising runs only in state time allocated by the IFE. Campaigns were shortened and the IFE's councillors were replaced in stages.
Official DOF 13 November 2007 ↗
- 1 July 2012
The PRI returns
Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI-PVEM) won with 38.2%. The campaign saw the #YoSoy132 student movement. The same year a reform (DOF 9 August 2012) allowed independent candidates and citizen-initiated legislation.
INE / IFE IFE cómputo 2012; DOF 9 August 2012 ↗
- 10 February 2014
The 2014 reform: the INE
The IFE was replaced by the Instituto Nacional Electoral (installed 4 April 2014), which also appoints the state electoral bodies (OPLEs). The reform allowed consecutive re-election of legislators (deputies up to four terms, senators two) and mayors from 2018, required parity in legislative candidacies, raised the threshold to 3% and moved the presidential inauguration to 1 October from 2024.
- 1 July 2018
López Obrador and Morena
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Morena-PT-PES) won with 53.2%, the first absolute majority since 1988, and his coalition won majorities in both chambers. Morena, registered only in 2014, became the largest party.
INE / IFE INE cómputo 2018 ↗
- 6 June 2019
Parity in everything
The 'paridad en todo' reform required gender parity across all three branches and all levels of government, including cabinets, municipal councils and the bodies that run elections. In December 2019 (DOF 20 December) the Constitution added the consulta popular rules and the presidential recall (revocación de mandato).
- 1 August 2021
First consulta popular
The first national consulta popular asked whether to investigate past political actors. 97.7% voted yes but turnout was 7.1%, far below the 40% needed for the result to be binding.
INE / IFE INE cómputo, consulta popular 2021 ↗
- 10 April 2022
Recall vote
In the first revocación de mandato, 91.9% voted for López Obrador to continue; turnout was 17.8%, below the 40% threshold for a binding result.
- 2 June 2024
Sheinbaum and the supermajority
Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidency with 59.8%, the first woman to do so. In the proportional allocation the INE counted each coalition party separately for the 8-point cap, giving Morena, the PVEM and the PT 364 of 500 deputies (72.8%) on about 54% of the vote; the opposition argued the cap should apply to the coalition as a whole. The Electoral Tribunal upheld the allocation on 28 August 2024.
- 15 September 2024
Judicial reform
A constitutional reform passed with the new supermajority made federal judges, magistrates and Supreme Court justices elected by popular vote, reduced the Supreme Court from 11 to 9 members and created a Judicial Discipline Tribunal.
Official DOF 15 September 2024 ↗
- 1 April 2025
No re-election and no nepotism, from 2030
A reform ended consecutive re-election for legislators and mayors and barred relatives of an office-holder from succeeding them; both apply from the 2030 elections, not 2027 as the president had proposed.
Official DOF 1 April 2025 ↗
- 1 June 2025
First judicial election
Voters chose 881 federal judicial posts, including the nine Supreme Court justices, from lists of candidates nominated by the three branches, with no party labels. The INE's quick estimate put turnout at 12.6–13.3%.
- 23 April 2026
The 2026 electoral reform: 'Plan B'
President Sheinbaum's constitutional electoral reform (cuts to proportional seats, ending the Senate's national list, about 25% less public funding) was rejected by the Chamber on 11 March 2026 (259 for, 234 against; two-thirds needed) after the PT and PVEM voted against. A narrower 'Plan B' passed instead (DOF 23 April 2026): at most 15 regidurías per municipal council, state congress budgets capped at 0.7% of the state budget, electoral councillors and magistrates paid no more than the president, and a 15% real cut to the Senate budget over four years.
Official DOF 23 April 2026 (vespertina) ↗
- 2 June 2026
Judicial election moved to 2028; new nullity ground
Decrees published on 2 June 2026 postponed the second judicial election from 2027 to the first Sunday of June 2028, extended the terms of the Electoral Tribunal's Sala Superior, added foreign interference as a ground for annulling an election (article 41), and created an INE commission to vet candidates for links to organised crime before 2027.
Official DOF 2 June 2026 (press report) ↗
- 25 June 2026
Two new national parties
The INE granted national registry to Somos México (renamed SOMOS in September) and the Partido PAZ, effective 1 July 2026, bringing the number of national parties to eight for the 2027 midterms.
Secondary INE resolutions INE/CG344/2026, INE/CG347/2026 (press report) ↗
Rule changes · 21
How the rules
were rewritten.
| Year | Instrument | What changed | Chamber | Threshold | Authority | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Ley Electoral Federal | Federal Electoral Surveillance Commission (chaired by the Interior Secretary) runs federal elections; parties must register nationally. | Comisión Federal de Vigilancia Electoral | Ley Electoral Federal, January 1946 (secondary) | ||
| 1953 | Constitution art. 34 | Women vote and stand in federal elections. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 1963 | Constitution art. 54 | Diputados de partido: 5 seats at 2.5% of the vote, +1 per 0.5%, up to 20. | 2.5% | DOF ↗ | ||
| 1969 | Constitution art. 34 | Voting age lowered to 18. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 1972 | Constitution art. 54 | Party-deputy threshold lowered to 1.5%, up to 25 seats. | 1.5% | DOF ↗ | ||
| 1977 | Constitution arts. 41, 52–54; LOPPE | Chamber of 400: 300 districts + 100 PR seats for minority parties; conditional registration of new parties. | 400 (300 MR + 100 PR) | 1.5% | Comisión Federal Electoral | DOF ↗ |
| 1986 | Constitution arts. 52–54; Código Federal Electoral (1987) | Chamber of 500 with 200 PR seats; 'governability clause' guaranteeing the largest party a majority; Senate renewed by halves. | 500 (300 MR + 200 PR) | DOF ↗ | ||
| 1990 | Constitution art. 41; COFIPE | Creation of the IFE and the Federal Electoral Tribunal; new voter register and photo ID. | IFE (chaired by the Interior Secretary) | DOF ↗ | ||
| 1993 | Constitution arts. 41, 54, 56, 60 | Senate of 128 (four per state: three majority, one first minority); governability clause removed; Congress no longer certifies its own election. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 1994 | Constitution art. 41 | Citizen councillors form the majority on the IFE General Council. | IFE with citizen councillors | DOF ↗ | ||
| 1996 | Constitution arts. 41, 54, 56, 99, 122 | IFE fully autonomous; TEPJF in the judiciary; Senate gains 32 national PR seats; elected head of government for Mexico City. | 2% | Autonomous IFE; TEPJF | DOF ↗ | |
| 2007 | Constitution arts. 41, 99, 134 | Ban on buying broadcast time; IFE administers state airtime; shorter campaigns. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2012 | Constitution art. 35 | Independent candidacies, citizen initiatives and consulta popular. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2014 | Constitution arts. 41, 59, 115, 116; LGIPE (DOF 23 May 2014) | IFE becomes INE, appoints the state OPLEs; consecutive re-election for legislators and mayors; parity in legislative candidacies; inauguration moved to 1 October. Re-election: Deputies up to 4 consecutive terms, senators 2, from 2018 Parity: 50% of legislative candidacies | 3% | INE + 32 OPLEs | DOF ↗ | |
| 2019 | Constitution arts. 2, 4, 35, 41, 52, 53, 56, 94, 115 | Parity in all public offices and in PR lists by circumscription. Parity: All branches and levels ('paridad en todo') | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2019 | Constitution arts. 35, 36, 81, 84 | Presidential recall (revocación de mandato) and revised consulta popular. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2024 | Constitution arts. 94–100 and others | Election of federal judges and Supreme Court justices by popular vote; Court reduced to 9. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2025 | Constitution arts. 55, 59, 82, 115, 116, 122 | No consecutive re-election and no succession by relatives, from the 2030 elections. Re-election: Ends from 2030 | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2026 | Constitution arts. 115, 116, 134 ('Plan B') | Max. 15 regidurías per council; state congress budgets ≤ 0.7% of state budget; pay cap for electoral officials; Senate budget cut. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2026 | Constitution arts. 35, 41, 94, 96, 98, 100, 116, 122 and 2024 transitories; LGIPE | Judicial election moved to June 2028; foreign interference as nullity ground; INE candidate-vetting commission. | DOF ↗ | |||
| 2026 | Constitution arts. 82, 116, 122 | The President, governors and Mexico City's head of government must hold Mexican nationality only (no other nationality, no use of a foreign passport). | DOF ↗ |
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