LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress

61st Congress LXI Legislatura
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Overview
Legislative body	Congress of the Union
Meeting place	Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro (Chamber of Deputies) Edificio del Senado (Senate)
Term	1 September 2009 (2009-09-01) – 31 August 2012 (2012-08-31)
Election	5 July 2006
Senate of the Republic
Members	128
Chamber of Deputies
Members	500

The LXI Legislature of the Congress of the Union, the 61st session of the Congress of Mexico, met from 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2012. Members of the upper house of the Congress were selected in the elections of July 2006 while members of the lower house of the Congress were selected in the elections of July 2009.

Composition

Out of 128 Senate seats, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (known as the PRI) controlled 50; the conservative National Action Party (PAN) controlled 33; while the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) controlled 23. Additionally, the Green Party of Mexico controlled eight seats, the Labor Party and the New Alliance Party each controlled five, and the Citizens' Movement four.

Out of 500 seats of the Chamber of Deputies, the PRI had 239; the PAN had 142; and the PRD controlled 69. Among smaller parties, the Green Party controlled 23, the Labor Party controlled 13, the New Alliance controlled seven, and the Citizens' Movement controlled 6. Additionally there was one independent.

Senators

Plurinominal Senators

State	Name	Party	State	State	Name
Federal District	Carlos Humberto Aceves	PRI	Federal District	Jorge Legorreta Ordorica Replacing Gabriela Aguilar García	PVEM
Federal District	Francisco Agundis Arias	PVEM	Federal District	Jorge Mendoza Garza	PRI
Puebla	Ángel Alonso Díaz Caneja	PAN	Zacatecas	Ricardo Monreal	PT
Aguascalientes	Alberto Anaya	PT	Federal District	María de los Ángeles Moreno	PRI
Federal District	Manlio Fabio Beltrones	PRI	Federal District	Ramón Muñoz Gutiérrez	PAN
Federal District	Claudia Corichi García	PRD	Guanajuato	Carlos Navarrete Ruiz	PRD
Federal District	Santiago Creel	PAN	Federal District	Jorge Ocejo Moreno	PAN
Federal District	Arturo Escobar y Vega	PVEM	Aguascalientes	Rafael Ochoa Guzmán	PANAL
Coahuila	Ricardo García Cervantes	PAN	Federal District	Javier Orozco Gómez Replacing Irma Ortega Fajardo	PVEM
Veracruz	Francisco García Lizardi Replacing Jose Luis Lobato	MC	Federal District	Teresa Ortuño Gurza	PAN
Mexico	Adriana González Carrillo	PAN	Federal District	Heladio Ramírez	PRI
Michoacán	José González Morfin	PAN	Federal District	María Rojo	PRD
Durango	Alejandro González Yáñez	PT	Sinaloa	Gabriela Ruiz del Rincón	PAN
Federal District	Rosario Green	PRI	Colima	Carlos Sotelo García	PRD
Federal District	Julián Güitrón Fuentevilla	MC	Guanajuato	Ricardo Torres Origel	PAN
Sinaloa	Augusto César Leal Angulo	PAN	Colima	Rosario Ibarra	PT

Alternate Deputies

Name	Replacing:	Took office	Name	Replacing:	Took office
María Teresa Álvarez Vázquez	Martha Bernardino	30 April 2012	Jorge Luis Lara Aguilar	Juan Carlos López Fernández	8 March 2012
Luz Margarita Alba Contreras	José Guadalupe Vera	25 April 1012	Humberto Macías Romero	Oralia López Hernández	2 February 2010
Violeta Avilés Álvarez	Eviel Pérez Magaña	2 March 2010	Aarón Mastache	Alejandro Encinas	29 March 2012
María Báez Padilla	Omar Rodríguez Cisneros	30 April 2012	Salma Meza Manjarrez	Salvador Caro Cabrera	1 February 2012
María Gabriela Banda	Justino Arriaga Rojas	19 April 2012	Guadalupe Mondragón Cobos	Francisco Javier Landero	30 April 2012
Martha Patricia Bernal	Jesús Ricardo Enríquez Fuentes	30 April 2012	Xóchitl Montes de Oca	Carlos Bello Otero	26 April 2012
María Cabrera Muñoz	Tereso Medina	10 April 2012	Christian Nava Sánchez	Luis Félix Rodríguez Sosa	17 April 2012
Morelos Jaime Canseco Gómez	Rodolfo Torre Cantú	23 February 2010	Julián Nazar Morales	Ana María Rojas	16 February 2012
Adriana Castelán Macías	Fidel Kuri Grajales	25 March 2010	Florentina Ocegueda	Martha Elena García	17 April 2012
Maribel Chollet	Miguel Ángel García Granados	29 April 2010	Martín Palacios Calderón	Óscar González Yáñez	30 April 2012
Luciano Cornejo Barrera	Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo	1 February 2011	Fany Pérez Gutiérrez	Sergio González Hernández	2 February 2010
Alfredo Cuadra Tinajero	Camilo Ramírez Puente	26 April 2012	Elvira Pola Figueroa	Obdulia Torres Abarca	10 April 2012
Alín Nayely de Jesús Sánchez	Ezequiel Rétiz	13 March 2012	Malco Ramírez Martínez	Juan Carlos Lastiri	2 February 2010
Adolfo de la Garza Malacara	Felipe Enríquez Hernández	23 February 2012	Horacio Ramírez Reyes	Gloria Romero León	26 April 2011
Gerardo del Mazo Morales	Karla Villarreal Benassini	29 October 2009	Óscar Rangel Miravete	Fermín Alvarado Arroyo	30 April 2012
María Díaz de León	Raúl Cuadra García	4 February 2012	César Rodríguez Cal y Mayor	Gloria Luna Ruiz	30 April 2012
José Enríquez Rosado	Feliciano Marín Díaz	25 July 2012	Juanita Santillán	Raúl Domínguez Rex	6 October 2011
Omar Flores Majul	Esteban Albarrán Mendoza	17 April 2012	Víctor Silva Chacón	Graciela Ortiz González	12 October 2010
María Patricia Franco Cruz	Héctor Pedroza Jiménez	23 April 2012	Hazel Suárez Bastida	José Luis Velasco	30 April 2012
Noé Fernando Garza Flores	Hilda Esthela Flores	2 February 2012	Mayra Valdés González	Jesús Ramírez Rangel	2 February 2010
Fátima Gómez Montero	Humberto Cota Jiménez	14 February 2012	Carmen Valle Vea	Leonardo Guillén Medina	10 April 2012
María González Alvarado	Alfredo Lugo Oñate	26 April 2012	Marcela Vieyra Alamilla	Ramón Ramírez Valtierra	7 April 2011
Karla González Cruz	Julio Saldaña Morán	20 April 2010	Moisés Villanueva de la Luz	Socorro Sofío Ramírez	31 March 2011
Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre	Patricia Jiménez Case	2 February 2010	José Luis Villegas Méndez	Sixto Zetina	25 April 2012
Nazario Herrera Ortega	María Elena López Loyo	2 February 2010	María Elena Zamora	Erandi Bermúdez	25 April 2012
Prudencia Juárez Capilla	Julián Velázquez y Llorente	2 February 2010	María Zamudio Guzmán	Adolfo Rojo Montoya	30 April 2012