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| PRI sweeps Michoacan state posts including governor -- UPDATED |
| 2011-11-14 |
| For a map, click here. For a map of Michoacan, click here. Updating with final vote tallys. A coalition of political parties headed up by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) has swept the slate in Michoacan's state elections Sunday. Fausto Vallejo for the PRI coalition has defeated Luisa Maria Calderon Hinojosa for Partico Accion Nacional (PAN) and Silvano Aureoles Conejo for the Partido Revolucion Democratica (PRD) in a closely contested race. PRD held the governor's seat and will relinquish it in January. Voter participation was average at about 54 percent of registered voters casting ballots. PRI's coalition garnered 563,598 for 35.39 percent of the vote, while Luisa Calderon Hinojosa gained 520,333 votes or 32.67 percent. The PRD/PT candidate, received 459,953 votes with 28.88 percent. It has been generally noted throughout Mexican press reports that anything less than a 60,000 vote margin would be considered a close election. Monitoring election returns, early results had been a seesaw between Vallejo and Calderon Hinojosa with the two swapping places at least twice. But sometime around 0100 hrs CST, with about 25 percent of the votes counted, Valljo began to pull away from his rivals. In the state Chamber of Deputies, the PRI coalition won 11 of 24 seats with PRD holding 8 and PAN winning 6, meaning PRI does not have control of the legislature. Unless PRI makes overtures to either PAN or PRD, a coalition between PAN and PRD is likely to rule the Chamber of Deputies. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Things must really suck in Mexico if these bums are back in power. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-11-14 18:24 |
