Mexican presidential election, 2006

Mexican general election, 2006

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Nominee Felipe Calderón Andrés Manuel López Obrador Roberto Madrazo Party PAN PRD PRI Home state Michoacán Tabasco Tabasco Popular vote 15,000,284 14,756,350 9,301,441 Percentage 35.89% 35.31% 22.26%
Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Calderón (16), Yellow denotes those won by López Obrador (15+DF). Numbers indicate the number of each state.
President before election Vicente Fox PAN Elected President Felipe Calderón PAN

Vicente Fox
PAN

Felipe Calderón
PAN

General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:

Several local ballots were also held on the same day, most notably:

On September 5, 2006, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa was declared President-Elect by the Federal Electoral Tribunal after a highly controversial post-electoral process.

Eight political parties participated in the 2006 presidential election; five of them joined forces in two different electoral coalitions.

Competition was intense, with the National Action Party (PAN) eager to hold on to the presidency for a second period, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) equally keen to regain the office it lost in the 2000 election for the first time in 71 years (then in coalition with the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (then in coalition with Convergence and the Labor Party) believing itself to have a good chance to win after disappointments in the two previous elections.

On July 6, 2006 the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) announced the final vote count in the 2006 presidential election, resulting in a narrow margin of 0.58 percentage points of victory for Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (PAN). Calderon's victory was confirmed by the Federal courts on September 5, 2006, and he was declared President-elect of Mexico. However, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (PRD), and his party, alleged irregularities in over 30% of the country's polling stations, and still after an unsuccessful judicial appeal of election results the PRD continued to call for street protests.^details