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The general election was held in Mexico on Sunday, August 21, 1994. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the federal level:

• A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution).
• 500 members (300 by the first-past-the-post system and 200 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies.
• 128 members (three per state by first-past-the-post and 32 by proportional representation from national party lists) to serve six-year terms in the Senate. In each state, two first-past-the-post seats are allocated to the party with the largest share of the vote, and the remaining seat is given to the first runner-up.

Contents 1 Presidential election 1.1 Election results 1.2 Results by state 2 Congress of the Union 2.1 Chamber of Deputies 2.2 Senate 3 See also 4 External links

The 1994 election is a political instability atmosphere after the rise of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation on January 1 of that year and murder of the original candidate of the PRI, Luis Donaldo Colosio on March 23 in Tijuana. Although it was not arrived at the levels of 1988 tension, most of the political analysts agree in which people voted by the continuity of the party in the government as a form to counterpart the fear to the destabilization of the country after five years of the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

The candidates who participated in the Presidential election of 1994 and the results which they obtained were the following:

	Party/Alliance	Candidate	Votes	Percent
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León	17,181,651	48.69
	National Action Party	Diego Fernández de Cevallos	9,146,841	25.92
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano	5,852,134	16.59
	Labor Party	Cecilia Soto González	970,121	2.75
	Ecologist Green Party of Mexico	Jorge González Torres	327,313	0.93
	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	Rafael Aguilar Talamantes	297,901	0.84
	Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution	Álvaro Pérez Treviño	192,795	0.55
	Popular Socialist Party	Marcela Lombardo Otero	166,594	0.47
	Mexican Democratic Party- National Opposition Union	Pablo Emilio Madero	97,935	0.28
Write-in			43,715	0.12
Invalid votes			1,008,291	2.83
Total votes			35,285,291	100.00

• Source: Instituto Federal Electoral

	Zedillo Ponce de León		Fernández de Cevallos		Cárdenas Solórzano		Soto González		González Torres		State Total
State	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Aguascalientes	157,736	46.45	124,484	36.65	29,236	8.61	6,518	1.92	3,794	1.12	339,616	100.00
Baja California	402,332	48.92	297,565	36.18	68,669	8.35	15,953	1.94	7,853	0.95	822,488	100.00
Baja California Sur	80,097	55.13	46,907	32.29	9,463	6.51	3,905	2.69	786	0.54	145,289	100.00
Campeche	123,225	53.81	41,910	18.30	47,640	20.80	2,935	1.28	720	0.31	229,006	100.00
Chiapas	493,135	45.21	126,266	11.58	347,981	31.90	19,381	1.78	4,274	0.39	1,090,709	100.00
Chihuahua	660,874	58.84	308,590	27.48	68,251	6.08	39,901	3.55	5,102	0.45	1,123,150	100.00
Coahuila	359,168	48.34	226,621	30.50	97,121	13.07	17,954	2.42	3,157	0.42	743,042	100.00
Colima	102,903	50.63	60,338	29.69	24,157	11.89	2,882	1.42	1,316	0.65	203,244	100.00
Distrito Federal	1,873,059	42.42	1,172,438	26.55	902,199	20.43	185,903	4.21	91,839	2.08	4,415,403	100.00
Durango	266,837	50.72	141,818	26.96	49,793	9.46	43,351	8.24	2,466	0.47	526,088	100.00
Guanajuato	945,088	53.76	513,865	29.23	149,268	8.49	32,763	1.86	10,906	0.62	1,757,816	100.00
Guerrero	385,590	48.61	74,198	9.35	266,818	33.64	9,168	1.16	2,951	0.37	793,211	100.00
Hidalgo	450,800	58.42	134,171	17.39	115,693	14.99	14,988	1.94	4,992	0.65	771,662	100.00
Jalisco	1,050,815	43.69	1,008,234	41.92	166,226	6.91	47,854	1.99	20,023	0.83	2,405,261	100.00
Estado de México	2,143,122	46.42	1,179,422	25.55	835,135	18.09	150,186	3.25	82,171	1.78	4,616,437	100.00
Michoacán	612,040	43.46	212,921	15.12	493,236	35.02	17,729	1.26	7,606	0.54	1,408,365	100.00
Morelos	282,821	49.63	128,942	22.63	109,560	19.23	14,399	2.53	6,509	1.14	569,841	100.00
Nayarit	179,411	56.76	59,925	18.96	50,717	16.05	8,862	2.80	1,243	0.39	316,087	100.00
Nuevo León	723,629	48.12	596,820	39.69	44,413	2.95	89,387	5.94	5,860	0.39	1,503,737	100.00
Oaxaca	509,776	49.99	131,225	12.87	276,758	27.14	17,221	1.69	5,044	0.49	1,019,807	100.00
Puebla	787,493	50.74	399,942	25.77	216,200	13.93	37,141	2.39	13,263	0.85	1,552,078	100.00
Querétaro	275,788	56.36	149,540	30.56	26,969	5.51	11,077	2.26	2,937	0.60	489,336	100.00
Quintana Roo	112,546	52.57	62,006	28.96	26,301	12.29	2,665	1.24	1,304	0.61	214,076	100.00
San Luis Potosí	440,601	56.86	196,351	25.34	73,523	9.49	19,705	2.54	4,546	0.59	774,915	100.00
Sinaloa	474,882	50.59	285,207	30.38	129,025	13.75	12,059	1.28	3,982	0.42	938,704	100.00
Sonora	361,835	41.79	330,272	38.14	111,978	12.93	33,118	3.82	2,778	0.32	865,838	100.00
Tabasco	335,851	54.73	44,763	7.29	196,100	31.96	5,832	0.95	1,583	0.26	613,614	100.00
Tamaulipas	481,595	46.23	275,989	26.49	192,900	18.52	23,916	2.30	5,155	0.49	1,041,684	100.00
Tlaxcala	186,126	52.70	84,582	23.95	54,029	15.30	7,799	2.21	2,862	0.81	353,157	100.00
Veracruz	1,360,540	51.47	419,109	15.85	612,354	23.16	50,492	1.91	16,342	0.62	2,643,553	100.00
Yucatán	251,699	52.22	195,986	40.66	15,009	3.11	3,583	0.74	2,102	0.44	482,015	100.00
Zacatecas	310,237	60.12	116,434	22.56	45,412	8.80	21,494	4.17	1,847	0.36	516,062	100.00
TOTALS:	17,181,651	48.69	9,146,841	25.92	5,852,134	16.59	970,121	2.75	327,313	0.93	35,285,291	100.00

Note:Only top 5 candidates is stated on this table above, for the results of the other candidates please visit Instituto Federal Electoral website

	Party	Deputies
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	300
	National Action Party	119
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	71
	Party of the National Reconstruction Cardenist Front	10

	Party	Senator
	Institutional Revolutionary Party	102
	National Action Party	20
	Party of the Democratic Revolution	6

The Congress of the Union is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies. Consecutive re-election is prohibited. Senators are elected to six-year terms, and deputies serve three-year terms. The Senate's 128 seats are filled by a mixture of direct-election (96) and proportional representation (32). In the lower chamber, 300 deputies are directly elected to represent single-member districts, and 200 are selected by a modified form of proportional representation from five electoral regions. The 200 proportional representation seats were created to help smaller parties gain access to the Chamber.

Even before the new electoral laws were passed, opposition parties were beginning to secure an increasing voice in Mexico's political system. A substantial number of candidates from opposition parties had won election to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate in 1994 elections.

• Elections in Mexico
• Politics of Mexico
• List of political parties in Mexico

• The elections: Good and bad news for North American relations by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute
• The 1994 Elections in Mexico: Still Neither Fully Free Nor Fair by Andrew Reding of the World Policy Institute