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1946 Mexican general election

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Field	Value
flag_year	1934
country	Mexico
election_date	7 July 1946
module	{{Infobox election
embed	yes
election_name	Presidential election
type	presidential
previous_election	1940 Mexican general election
previous_year	1940
next_election	1952 Mexican general election
next_year	1952
image1	Miguel Alemán Valdés (cropped)(2).jpg
nominee1	Miguel Alemán Valdés
party1	Institutional Revolutionary Party
popular_vote1	1,786,901
percentage1	77.87%
image2	Ezequiel Padilla Penaloza (cropped).jpg
nominee2	Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza
party2	Mexican Democratic Party (1946)
popular_vote2	443,357
percentage2	19.32%
title	President
before_election	Manuel Ávila Camacho
before_party	Institutional Revolutionary Party
after_election	Miguel Alemán Valdés
after_party	Institutional Revolutionary Party

General elections were held in Mexico on 7 July 1946. The presidential elections were won by Miguel Alemán Valdés, who received 77.9% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 141 of the 147 seats.

Background

With the establishment of the Federal Electoral Law of 1946, three political parties were registered: the National Action Party (PAN), the Mexican Democratic Party (PDM) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), with the latter being a successor of the Party of the Mexican Revolution.

To better establish control over the various factions within the party, President Manuel Ávila Camacho sought greater worker discipline and strengthened the popular side of the party in the same year that he restructured the official one by eliminating the military sector, in order to prevent internal conflicts prior to voting as had occurred with Juan Andreu Almazán during the general elections of 1940.

Likewise, the PRI was experiencing a generational shift as a result of the militants' aging from their revolutionary struggle training. As a result, they were obliged to hand over positions of authority to people with university education.

Results

President

DiazFoxMODO06.JPG|Miguel Alemán campaign items. MiguelAlemanbotones.JPG|Miguel Alemán campaign buttons. EzequielPadillamanifiesto.JPG|Manifesto from the Padilla campaign. 1940campanamexicobonos_(cropped).JPG|Contribution bonds for the Alemán and Padilla campaigns.

Chamber of Deputies

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p453 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
Nohlen, p468

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