![]() However, they could benefit if votes from smaller parties who fail to get the minimum percentage needed to enter Congress are redistributed, as forecast. Early forecasts from Mexico's electoral authority showed the PRI and its partners winning between 246 and 263 lower house seats. The PRI, the Green Party and the smaller New Alliance Party had a one-seat majority of 251 seats heading into the vote, having won around 42 percent of the vote in the 2012 election. By Monday morning, with 85 percent of polling station returns in, preliminary results showed Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its allies in Congress had won almost 40 percent of the vote. ![]() ![]() Mexicans cast votes on Sunday for the 500-strong lower house as well as nine state governorships and more than 1,000 state and municipal posts in what was seen as a referendum on Pena Nieto's rule. By Dave Graham and Max De Haldevang MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was close to retaining a slim majority in the lower house of Congress on Monday despite losing support in mid-term elections marked by anger over corruption, gang violence and weak economic growth.
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