Senate of the Republic (Mexico)

Senate of the Republic

Senado de la República
Senate of the Republic ; Senado de la República
LXIV Legislature
Type
Type	Upper house of the Congress of Mexico
History
Founded	October 4, 1824
Leadership
President of the Senate	Ana Lilia Rivera (MORENA) ; since 1 September 2023
Structure
Seats	128 members
Political groups	Government (77) <span style="background-color:Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/M' not found.; border:1px solid black;"> MORENA (60); <span style="background-color:Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/E' not found.; border:1px solid black;"> PVEM (7); PT (6); PES (4); Opposition (51) <span style="background-color:Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/N' not found.; border:1px solid black;"> PAN (24); PRI (14); MC (9); <span style="background-color:Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/P' not found.; border:1px solid black;"> PRD (3); Independent (1);
Length of term	6 years
Authority	Chapter II of the Constitution of the United Mexican States
Elections
Voting system	Limited voting
Last election	July 1, 2018
Motto
	La Patria Es Primero (The Country Is First)
Meeting place
	Senate Tribune; Senate Palace; Mexico City; Mexico
Website
	Official Website of the Mexican Senate

The Senate of the Republic, (Spanish: Senado de la Repúblicacode: es is deprecated ) constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union (Spanish: Cámara de Senadores del H. Congreso de la Unióncode: es is deprecated ), is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress. It currently consists of 128 members, who serve six-year terms.

Make-up

After a series of reforms during the 1990s, the Senate is made up of 128 senators:^[1]

Two for each of the 32 states^[a] elected under the principle of relative majority;
One for each of the 32 states^[a] assigned under the principle of first minority (i.e. awarded to the party who had won the second highest number of votes within the state or Federal District);
Thirty-two national senators-at-large, divided among the parties in proportion to their share of the national vote.