Election Results I

These are preliminary figures and I’ll update later this evening, and try to make sense of it either tonight or sometime in the next day (as much sense as possible, anyway).

PREP (Programa de Resultos Electorales Preliminares) are “official” in that these figures come from IFE (the elections institute),  based on stastical data, and not by any means based on a full ballot count.  And, not all polling stations have reported, so the numbers will probably change.

As of 21:15 (Mexico City time):

PAN                                           26.8

PRI                                             35.0

PRD                                             12.1

PVEM  (Greens)                        7.3

PT (Workers Party)                  4.2

Convergenia                                2.3

Nueva Alianza                             3.6

Social Democrats                       1.2

PRI/Green fusion                      0.4

PT/Convergencia fusion        0.3

Null vote                                       6.4

The Greens  were a Green party once upon a time, but have become more or less the yuppie wing of the PRI… they only run a fusion ticket in a few districts, maintaining enough strength in a few districts to be a relatively good sized minor party.

PT/Convergencia were the junior partners in the Lopez Obrador coalition of 2006, and are the rump of the Lopez Obrador movement.

Social Democrats tend to do ok in a few districts, more or less as a party for what in the U.S. would be the progressive wing of the Democratic Party — pro-feminist, pro-gay rights, pro-decriminization of drugs, etc., and an extension of social programs.  They usually manage to at least bring up these issues, but it doesn’t look like they’ll have the votes to maintain their status as a national party.

Convergencia, which is also supposedly a Social Democratic party, is also likely to lose its registration.