Mexico's Opposition Candidate Pena Nieto Winning Election: Exit Polls

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35. Mexican old guard leads, ruling party concedes

Mexican old guard leads, ruling party concedes

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press – 3 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's old guard prepared to step back into power after a 12-year hiatus as the president of the long-ruling party said late Sunday that all exit polls "irreversibly" favored its presidential candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto.

Three major exit polls showed Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, with about 40 percent of the vote in the presidential election. nearly 10 points ahead of his nearest challenger. Two were exit polls and the third a "quick count" based on the actual vote.

Conservative National Action Party candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota conceded almost immediately after the polls closed, as did New Alliance candidate Gabriel Quadri, who had only single digits. That left Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the single holdout as the Federal Elections Institute prepared to release an official representative quick count at 11:45 p.m. local time.


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