The LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union, the 62nd session of the Congress of Mexico, met from September 1, 2012, to August 31, 2015. It consisted of Senators and Deputies in their respective chambers. All members of both the lower and upper houses of the Congress were elected in the elections of July 2012.
Senators were elected for a six-year term during the 2012 elections, allowing them to serve in both the LXII and subsequent legislatures. Deputies, also elected in the 2012 elections, served exclusively during the LXII Legislature.
The composition of the LXII Legislature was as follows:
Senate of the Republic
Members of the Senate of the Republic are elected for a term of six years. Each of the states elects three senators, complemented by an additional 32 senators selected from a national list, totaling 128 senators.
The composition of the Senate in the LXII Legislature is as follows:
Number of Senators by Political Party For the internal governance of the Senate, senators are organized by the political party through which they were elected into parliamentary groups. Each group is led by a coordinator. The coordinators from all groups collectively form the Political Coordination Board of the Senate. PartySenators PluralitySenators First minoritySenators Proportional Rep.TotalPAN1613938PRI30111152PRD115622PT1236PVEM6129MC0000PANAL0011Total643232128Source: Instituto Federal Electoral.
Senate elections
The Institutional Revolutionary Party & the allied Green Party failed to gain a simple majority in either house. As a result, the PRI had to form crossparty coalitions in order to pass key reforms, particularly those requiring constitutional amendments. In the July 2012 elections the PRI gained 2 seats, ending with 52. The PAN gained 5 seats, ending with 38. The PRD lost 1 seat, ending with 22. The PVEM gained 1 seat, ending with 9. The Labor Party lost 1 seat, ending with 4. The PANAL lost 3, ending with 2 seats. The MC lost 3 seats, ending with 1.
By federal entity State Senator Party State Senator Party Aguascalientes Fernando Herrera Ávila PAN Morelos Fidel Demédicis Hidalgo PRD Aguascalientes Martín Orozco Sandoval PAN Morelos Lisbeth Hernández Lecona PRI Aguascalientes Miguel Romo Medina PRI Morelos Rabindranath Salazar Solorio PRD Baja California Marco Antonio Blásquez Salinas PT Nayarit Manuel Humberto Cota Jiménez PRI Baja California Víctor Hermosillo y Celada PAN Nayarit Margarita Flores Sánchez PRI Baja California Ernesto Ruffo Appel PAN Nayarit Martha Elena García Gómez PAN Baja California Sur Ángel Salvador Ceseña Burgoin Substitute for Ricardo Barroso Agramont PRI Nuevo León Ivonne Liliana Álvarez PRI Baja California Sur Ana Luisa Yuen Santa Ana Substitute for Isaías González Cuevas PRI Nuevo León Raúl Gracia Guzmán PAN Baja California Sur Carlos Mendoza Davis PAN Nuevo León Marcela Guerra Castillo PRI Campeche Jorge Luis Lavalle Maury PAN Oaxaca Eviel Pérez Magaña PRI Campeche Raúl Aarón Pozos PRI Oaxaca Ángel Benjamín Robles PRD Campeche Oscar Román Rosas PRI Oaxaca Adolfo Romero Lainas PRD Chiapas Roberto Albores Gleason PRI Puebla Blanca Alcalá PRI Chiapas Luis Armando Melgar Bravo PVEM Puebla Javier Lozano Alarcón PAN Chiapas Zoe Alejandro Robledo PRD Puebla María Lucero Saldaña PRI Chihuahua Javier Corral Jurado PAN Querétaro Enrique Burgos García PRI Chihuahua Patricio Martínez García PRI Querétaro Francisco Domínguez Servién PAN Chihuahua Lilia Merodio Reza PRI Querétaro María Marcela Torres Peimbert PAN Coahuila Braulio Manuel Fernández PRI Quintana Roo Luz María Beristain PRD Coahuila Silvia Guadalupe Garza PAN Quintana Roo Félix Arturo González Canto PRI Coahuila Luis Fernando Salazar Fernández PAN Quintana Roo Jorge Emilio González Martínez PVEM Colima Jorge Luis Preciado PAN San Luis Potosí Sonia Mendoza Díaz PAN Colima Itzel Ríos de la Mora PRI San Luis Potosí César Octavio Pedroza Gaitán PAN Colima Mely Romero Celis PRI San Luis Potosí Teófilo Torres Corzo PRI Mexico City Maria Alejandra Barrales PRD Sinaloa Daniel Amador Gaxiola PRI Mexico City Mario Martín Delgado PRD Sinaloa Aarón Irízar López PRI Mexico City Pablo Escudero Morales PVEM Sinaloa Francisco Salvador López Brito PAN Durango José Rosas Aispuro PAN Sonora Francisco Búrquez PAN Durango Ismael Hernández PRI Sonora Ernesto Gándara Camou PRI Durango Juana Leticia Herrera Ale PRI Sonora Claudia Artemiza Pavlovich PRI Guanajuato Miguel Angel Chico Herrera PRI Tabasco Adán Augusto López PRD Guanajuato Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN Tabasco Fernando Enrique Mayans PRD Guanajuato Fernando Torres Graciano PAN Tabasco Humberto Domingo Mayans PRI Guerrero René Juárez Cisneros PRI Tamaulipas Manuel Cavazos Lerma PRI Guerrero Misael Medrano Baza Substitute for Sofío Ramírez Hernández PRD Tamaulipas Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca PAN Guerrero Armando Ríos Piter PRD Tamaulipas Maki Esther Ortíz PAN Hidalgo Omar Fayad PRI Tlaxcala Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros PRD Hidalgo Isidro Pedraza Chávez PRD Tlaxcala Adriana Dávila Fernández PAN Hidalgo David Penchyna Grub PRI Tlaxcala Martha Palafox Gutiérrez PT Jalisco Jesús Casillas Romero PRI Veracruz Héctor Yunes Landa PRI Jalisco María Verónica Martínez EspinozaReplacing Arturo Zamora Jiménez PRI Veracruz Fernando Yunes Márquez PAN Jalisco Jose María Martínez Martínez PAN Veracruz José Francisco Yunes Zorrilla PRI State of Mexico Maria Elena Barrera PVEM Yucatán Angélica Araujo Lara PRI State of Mexico Alejandro de Jesús Encinas PRD Yucatán Daniel Gabriel Ávila PAN State of Mexico Ana Lilia Herrera Anzaldo PRI Yucatán Rosa Adriana Díaz PAN Michoacán Raúl Morón Orozco PRD Zacatecas David Monreal Ávila PT Michoacán José Ascención Orihuela PRI Zacatecas Carlos Alberto Puente Salas PVEM Michoacán María Pineda Gochi PRI Zacatecas Alejandro Tello Cristerna PRI
Plurinominal Senators Senator Party Senator Party Monica Arriola Gordillo PANAL Arely Gómez González PRI Joel Ayala Almeida PRI Mariana Gómez del Campo PAN Luis Miguel Barbosa PRD Ana Guevara PT Manuel Bartlett Díaz PT Héctor Larios Córdova PAN Luisa María Calderón PAN Iris Vianey Mendoza PRD Víctor Manuel Camacho PRD Armando Neyra Chávez PRI Raúl Cervantes Andrade PRI María del Pilar Ortega MartínezReplacing Alonso Lujambio PAN Ernesto Cordero Arroyo PAN Graciela Ortíz González PRI Gabriela Cuevas Barrón PAN María de los Dolores Padierna PRD Angélica De la Peña Gómez PRD Laura Angélica Rojas Hernández PAN María Cristina Díaz Salazar PRI Carlos Antonio Romero Deschamps PRI Hilda Esthela Flores Escalera PRI Ninfa Salinas Sada PVEM Juan Gerardo Flores Ramírez PVEM Gerardo Sánchez García PRI Emilio Antonio Gamboa PRI Venancio Luis Sánchez PRD Diva Hadamira Gastélum PRI Layda Elena Sansores MC Roberto Gil Zuarth PAN Salvador Vega Casillas PAN
Presidents of the Senate during the LXII Legislature
First year of session (2012–2013): Ernesto Cordero Arroyo Second year of session (2013–2014): Raúl Cervantes Andrade Third year of session (2014–2015): Miguel Barbosa Huerta
Parliamentary coordinators
National Action Party: (2012–2013): Ernesto Cordero Arroyo (2013–2015): Jorge Luis Preciado Rodríguez (2015– ): Fernando Herrera Ávila Institutional Revolutionary Party: Emilio Gamboa Patrón Party of the Democratic Revolution: Miguel Barbosa Huerta Ecologist Green Party of Mexico: Jorge Emilio González Martínez Labor Party: Manuel Bartlett Díaz
Chamber of Deputies elections
The Chamber of Deputies is composed of 500 legislators elected for a three-year term and not eligible for immediate reelection. 300 deputies are elected by direct vote in each of the federal electoral districts of the country, and the other 200 through a list system voted in each of the electoral constituencies.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party lost 32 seats, ending with 207. The PAN lost 28 seats, ending with 114. The PRD gained 31 seats, ending with 100. The Green Party gained 11 seats, ending with 34. The PT gained 6 seats, ending with 19. The New Alliance gained 3 seats, ending with 10. The Citizens Movement gained 10 seats, ending with 16. 1 independent seat was lost, and now there are none in the Chamber of Deputies.
Number of Deputies by political party PartyDeputies Relative majorityDeputies Proportional representationTotalPAN5262114PRI16349212PRD6044104PT51015PVEM141529MC61016PANAL01010Total300200500Source: Federal Electoral Institute.
Deputies
Deputies by single-member district (relative majority) StateDistrictDeputyPartyStateDistrictDeputyPartyAguascalientes1J. Pilar Moreno MontoyaMéxico26Fernando Zamora MoralesAguascalientes2María Teresa Jiménez EsquivelMéxico27Laura Barrera FortoulAguascalientes3José Ángel González SernaMéxico28Sue Ellen Bernal BolnikBaja California1Benjamín Castillo ValdezMéxico29Valentín González BautistaBaja California2María Fernanda Schroeder VerdugoMéxico30Alliet Bautista BravoBaja California3Gilberto Antonio Hirata ChicoMéxico31Víctor Manuel Bautista LópezBaja California4María Elia Cabañas AparicioMéxico32Arturo Cruz RamírezBaja California5Juan Manuel Gastélum BuenrostroMéxico33Juan Manuel Carbajal HernándezBaja California6Chris López AlvaradoMéxico34Norma González Vera Substitute for Alberto Curi NaimeAlberto Curi Naime requested leave on November 20, 2014 to become Undersecretary of Basic Education of the Secretariat of Public Education. Baja California7David Pérez Tejada PadillaMéxico35Tanya Rellstab CarretoBaja California8Mayra Karina Robles AguirreMéxico36Noé Barrueta BarónBaja California Sur1Francisco Pelayo CovarrubiasMéxico37Francisco Javier Fernández ClamontBaja California Sur2Arturo De la Rosa EscalanteMéxico38Jorge de la Vega MembrilloCampeche1Landy Margarita Berzunza NoveloMéxico39Cristina González CruzCampeche2Rocío Abreu ArtiñanoMéxico40Gerardo Xavier Hernández TapiaChiapas1Lourdes Adriana López MorenoMichoacán1Rodimiro Barrera EstradaChiapas2Pedro Gómez GómezMichoacán2Armando Contreras CeballosChiapas3Amílcar Augusto Villafuerte TrujilloMichoacán3N/D Substitute for Silvano Aureoles ConejoChiapas4Harvey Gutiérrez ÁlvarezMichoacán4Salvador Romero ValenciaChiapas5Luis Gómez GómezMichoacán5Adriana Hernández ÍñiguezChiapas6Williams Oswaldo Ochoa GallegosMichoacán6Luis Olvera CorreaChiapas7Francisco Grajales PalaciosMichoacán7José Luis Esquivel ZalpaChiapas8Eduardo Ramírez AguilarMichoacán8Eligio Cuitláhuac González FaríasChiapas9María del Rosario de Fátima Pariente GavitoMichoacán9Socorro de la Luz Quintana LeónChiapas10Héctor Narcia ÁlvarezMichoacán10Ernesto Núñez AguilarChiapas11Hugo Mauricio Pérez AnzuetoMichoacán11Antonio García ConejoChiapas12Antonio de Jesús Díaz AthiéMichoacán12Salvador Ortiz GarcíaChihuahua1Adriana Fuentes TéllezMorelos1José Francisco Coronato RodríguezChihuahua2Ignacio Duarte MurilloMorelos2Javier Orihuela GarcíaChihuahua3Carlos Angulo ParraMorelos3Francisco Rodríguez MonteroChihuahua4Luis Murguía LardizábalMorelos4Andrés Eloy Martínez RojasChihuahua5Abraham Montes AlvaradoMorelos5Víctor Reymundo Nájera MedinaChihuahua6Minerva Castillo RodríguezNayarit1Juan Manuel Rocha PiedraChihuahua7Kamel Athié FloresNayarit2Roy Gómez OlguínChihuahua8Pedro Ignacio Domínguez ZepedaNayarit3Gloria Núñez SánchezChihuahua9Karina Velázquez RamírezNuevo León1Homero Niño de Rivera VelaCoahuila1María de Lourdes Flores Treviño