A number of
elections
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...
on the federal and local level took place in
Mexico
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during 2006.
Federal election
A
general election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
was held on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters went to the polls to elect, on the
federal
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Politics
General
*Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies
*Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or ...
level:
*A new
President of the Republic
*A new
Congress
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(both chambers)
The
Federal Electoral Institute
The Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) (English for ''National Electoral Institute'') (formerly Federal Electoral Institute (, IFE)) is an autonomous, public agency responsible for organizing federal elections in Mexico, that is, those relate ...
(IFE) is the public organization responsible for organizing the general election in Mexico.
Local elections
In addition to the
general election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
in July 2006, 12
states and the
Federal District
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(
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
) held local elections during the course of the year.
See also
*
Politics of Mexico
The politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the President of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, an ...
*
List of political parties in Mexico
This article lists political parties in Mexico.
Mexico has a multi-party system, which means that there are more than two dominant political parties.
Nationally, the three main political parties are the , the , and the . Other political parties ...
References
Further reading
*Bruhn, Kathleen, and Kenneth F. Greene. "Elite Polarization Meets Mass Moderation in Mexico's 2006 Elections." PS: Political Science & Politics 40.1 (2007): 33-38.
*Lawson, Chappell, et al. "The Mexico 2006 Panel Study." Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, online:
(10 May 2016) (2007).
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