page_title: 2000 Mexican general election
hierarchical_section_title: 2000 Mexican general election
caption_attribution_description: Español: Basado en Plantilla de méxico, Resultados y Del PREP Y conteos distritales
context_page_description: General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2000.
  Voters went to the polls to elect:
  A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, the election system is plurality voting.
  500 members to serve for a three-year term in the Chamber of Deputies.
  128 members 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.
  The presidential elections were won by Vicente Fox of the Alliance for Change, who received 43.4% of the vote, the first time the opposition had won an election since the Mexican Revolution. In the Congressional elections the Alliance for Change emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Deputies with 224 of the 500 seats, whilst the Institutional Revolutionary Party remained the largest faction in the Senate with 60 of the 128 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was between 63 and 64% in the elections.
  This historically significant election made Fox the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I.
context_section_description: General elections were held in Mexico on Sunday, July 2, 2000.
  Voters went to the polls to elect:
  A new President of the Republic to serve a six-year term, replacing then Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (ineligible for re-election under the 1917 Constitution), the election system is plurality voting.
  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.
  The presidential elections were won by Vicente Fox of the Alliance for Change, who received 43.4% of the vote, the first time the opposition had won an election since the Mexican Revolution. In the Congressional elections the Alliance for Change emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Deputies with 224 of the 500 seats, whilst the Institutional Revolutionary Party remained the largest faction in the Senate with 60 of the 128 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was between 63 and 64% in the elections.
  This historically significant election made Fox the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910, and the first one in 71 years to defeat, with 42 percent of the vote, the then-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
caption: States won by the presidential candidates (blue for Fox, green for  Labastida and yellow for Cárdenas)
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