Friday, July 14, 2006
Federal Elections in Mexico 2006: 117 voting stations had more votes than registered electors
(Esta entrada está disponible también en español.)
According to definitive results of last July 2 presidential election published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), there were 117 voting stations (casillas) in 27 federal entities where the total number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered electors.
Election results in these voting stations, which reported a total of 60,323 votes with 48,351 enrolled voters, gave a slight advantage of 2,656 votes to PAN presidential candidate Felipe Calderón, who holds a nationwide majority of 243,934 votes.
Voting stations with more votes than registered electors amounted to 0.09% of 130,788 voting stations established by IFE for the 2006 federal election.
In addition, a further 21 voting stations registered extremely high turnout rates, ranging from 95% to 100%. However, in this group, the favored candidate was Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos, who won 5,129 of 7,793 votes cast in these stations; in three voting stations in Chiapas's District 2 and one voting station in Guerrero's District 5, López Obrador received 100% of the valid vote.
In free and fair elections around the world, voter turnout rates rarely reach 95%, unless voting is compulsory; nonetheless, there have been some legitimate exceptions. For example, in the island nation of Malta (located in the Mediterranean Sea), voter turnout in parliamentary elections since 1976 has never been lower than 94.6%.
In Mexico's 2006 presidential election, 58.6% of the electorate turned out to vote. At the federal entity level, voter turnout ranged from a low of 46.5% in Guerrero to a high of 68.2% in Tabasco, while at the election district level, turnout ranged from 37.4% in Chihuahua's District 2 to 74.6% in Tabasco's District 5.
More information
According to definitive results of last July 2 presidential election published by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), there were 117 voting stations (casillas) in 27 federal entities where the total number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered electors.Election results in these voting stations, which reported a total of 60,323 votes with 48,351 enrolled voters, gave a slight advantage of 2,656 votes to PAN presidential candidate Felipe Calderón, who holds a nationwide majority of 243,934 votes.
Voting stations with more votes than registered electors amounted to 0.09% of 130,788 voting stations established by IFE for the 2006 federal election.
In addition, a further 21 voting stations registered extremely high turnout rates, ranging from 95% to 100%. However, in this group, the favored candidate was Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos, who won 5,129 of 7,793 votes cast in these stations; in three voting stations in Chiapas's District 2 and one voting station in Guerrero's District 5, López Obrador received 100% of the valid vote.
In free and fair elections around the world, voter turnout rates rarely reach 95%, unless voting is compulsory; nonetheless, there have been some legitimate exceptions. For example, in the island nation of Malta (located in the Mediterranean Sea), voter turnout in parliamentary elections since 1976 has never been lower than 94.6%.
In Mexico's 2006 presidential election, 58.6% of the electorate turned out to vote. At the federal entity level, voter turnout ranged from a low of 46.5% in Guerrero to a high of 68.2% in Tabasco, while at the election district level, turnout ranged from 37.4% in Chihuahua's District 2 to 74.6% in Tabasco's District 5.
More information
