LI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
| 51st Congress (LI Legislatura) | |||||
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| Legislative body | Congress of the Union | ||||
| Term | 1 September 1979 – 31 August 1982 | ||||
| Election | 1 July 1979 | ||||
| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Members | 64 | ||||
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Members | 400 | ||||
The LI Legislature of the Congress of the Union (LI Legislatura del Congreso de la Unión) was the 51st session of the Congress of Mexico. It sat from 1 September 1979 to 31 August 1982.
The session's senators had been elected in the 1976 general election while the deputies were elected in the 1979 mid-term election.
It marked a watershed in that it was the first congress elected after the 1977 political reforms, under which several parties on the left and the right obtained official registration and access to Congress by opposition parties (i.e. those other than the hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party) was made much more viable. The session's members included the first deputies from the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), the Workers' Socialist Party (PST) and the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM).[1][2] The reforms also increased the number of deputies: 300 from single-member constituencies and 100 from regional lists.[3]
Senate
[edit]The 1976 general election had elected two senators for each state and the Federal District – a total of 64 – to serve six-year terms. They were in office for the 50th and 51st sessions of Congress (1976–1982).
Party strengths
[edit]| Party | Senators | |
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Institutional Revolutionary Party | 63 |
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Popular Socialist Party | 1 |
Senators
[edit]President of the Senate
[edit]- 1976–1982: Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe
Chamber of Deputies
[edit]The 51st Congress was elected in the July 1979 mid-term election following the 1977 political reforms: the number of single-member constituencies was increased to 300 (from 196 in the 50th Congress), the proportional representation system was expanded to 100 seats (compared to 41 in the 50th Congress), and three parties obtained their first deputies: the Mexican Communist Party (PCM), the Workers' Socialist Party (PST) and the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM).[1][3]
Deputies by party
[edit]| Party | Single-member districts |
Proportional representation |
Total | |
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Institutional Revolutionary Party | 296 | 0 | 296 |
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National Action Party | 4 | 39 | 43 |
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Mexican Communist Party | 0 | 18 | 18 |
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Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution | 0 | 12 | 12 |
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Popular Socialist Party | 0 | 11 | 11 |
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Mexican Democratic Party | 0 | 10 | 10 |
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Workers' Socialist Party | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Total | 300 | 100 | 400 | |
Deputies elected in single-member constituencies
[edit]Proportional representation deputies
[edit]For the 1979 election, 100 proportional representation deputies were elected from three electoral regions. Regions 1 and 2 elected 30 seats, while No. 3 was assigned 40.[6][n]
- 1st region: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora
- 2nd region: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Zacatecas
- 3rd region: Campeche, Chiapas, Federal District, State of Mexico, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tlaxcala and Yucatán[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Landeros Gallegos requested a leave of absence from his Senate seat to contend for the governorship of Aguascalientes.
- ^ De la Madrid Romandía requested a leave of absence from his Senate seat to serve, first, as the director-general of the National Lottery and, second, as the governor of Baja California.
- ^ Salcedo Monteón requested a leave of absence from his Senate seat upon his appointment as the director-general of the Fondo Nacional de Fomento Ejidal.
- ^ Rubio Ruiz died in office on 6 January 1977.
- ^ Sansores Pérez resigned his Senate seat upon his appointment as director-general of the ISSSTE.
- ^ Rafful Miguel left his Senate seat to head the Department of Fisheries.
- ^ Álvarez Ponce de León requested a leave of absence from her seat to take office as governor of Colima.
- ^ Gutiérrez Ruiz requested a leave of absence to head Fertilizantes Mexicanos (FERTIMEX).
- ^ Pellicer died in office on 16 February 1977.
- ^ Cárdenas Solórzano requested a leave of absence to serve at the Secretariat of Agriculture, Ranching and Rural Development and then to take office as the governor of Michoacán.
- ^ Cervantes del Río requested a leave of absence to serve as director-general of the Federal Electricity Commission.
- ^ Took his seat on 22 December 1979 after the election of 1 July in the district was annulled.
- ^ The election of 1 July 1979 in the 17th district was annulled. A special election was held on 2 December, which was won by Ramos Gurrión.[4][5]
- ^ For the 1982 general election, the number of regions was increased to four; the fifth region was introduced for the 1985 mid-terms.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "La Reforma política de 1977". Cámara de Diputados. Government of Mexico. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Comunistas en el Legislativo". Memórica. Government of Mexico. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b Baños Martínez, Marco Antonio; Palacios Mora, Celia (2014). "Evolución territorial de los distritos electorales federales uninominales, 1977–2010" [Territorial evolution of the federal uninominal electoral districts, 1977–2010]. Investigaciones Geográficas (84). Mexico City: Instituto de Geografía, UNAM: 92. doi:10.14350/rig.34063. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Diario de los debates, 22 de diciembre de 1979". Cámara de Diputados. 22 December 1979. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ "Este martes, homenaje a Manuel Ramos Gurrión en el CDE del PRI". Partido Revolucionario Institucional. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ a b Palacios Mora, Celia; Tirado Cervantes, Erubiel (2009). "Circunscripciones electorales plurinominales: configuración geográfica y equilibrio poblacional. 1977–2007" [Proportional representation multi–member district: geography and population balance. 1977–2007]. Investigaciones Geográficas (68). Mexico City: Instituto de Geografía, UNAM. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Map: 1979–1981 electoral regions".
