L Legislature of the Mexican Congress
The L Legislature of the Mexican Congress met from 1976 to 1979. It consisted of senators and deputies who were members of their respective chambers. They began their duties on September 1, 1976 and ended on August 31, 1979.
The senators and deputies were elected to office in the 1976 elections. The senators were elected for a period of six years, and the deputies were elected for a period of three years.
Members
The make up of the L Legislature was as follows:Senate of the Republic
The members of the Mexican Senate were elected two from each state and the Federal District, giving a total of 64 senators. For the first time in history a senator was elected who did not belong to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Jorge Cruickshank García had been nominated by the PPS, however the PRI did not lose this seat, because it formed an electoral alliance with the winning party. Thus this senator posed no opposition to the PRI or the government during his term.Number of Senators by political party
The 64 Senators forming the L Legislature are the following:Senators by state
| State | Senator | Party | State | Senator | Party |
| Aguascalientes | Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos | Nayarit | Leobardo Ramos Martínez | ||
| Aguascalientes | Héctor Hugo Olivares Ventura | Nayarit | Daniel Espinoza Galindo | ||
| Baja California | Rafael García Vázquez Replaced Roberto de la Madrid Romandía | Nuevo León | Napoleón Gómez Sada | ||
| Baja California | Oscar Baylón Chacón | Nuevo León | Adrián Yáñez Martínez | ||
| Baja California Sur | Alberto Alvarado Arámburo | Oaxaca | Rodolfo Alaves Flores | ||
| Baja California Sur | Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal Replaced Marcelo Rubio Ruiz | Oaxaca | Jorge Cruickshank García | ||
| Campeche | Rosa María Martínez Denegri Replaced Carlos Sansores Pérez | Puebla | Horacio Labastida Muñoz | ||
| Campeche | Joaquín Repetto Ocampo Replaced Fernando Rafful Miguel | Puebla | Blas Chumacero | ||
| Chiapas | Roberto Corzo Gay | Querétaro | Rafael Camacho Guzmán | ||
| Chiapas | Horacio Castellanos Coutiño | Querétaro | Telésforo Trejo Uribe | ||
| Chihuahua | Óscar Ornelas | Quintana Roo | Vicente Coral Martínez | ||
| Chihuahua | Mario Carballo Pazos | Quintana Roo | José Blanco Peyrefitte | ||
| Coahuila | Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto | San Luis Potosí | Rafael Tristán López | ||
| Coahuila | Gustavo Guerra Castaños | San Luis Potosí | Francisco Padrón Puyou | ||
| Colima | Griselda Álvarez | Sinaloa | Hilda Anderson Nevárez | ||
| Colima | Antonio Salazar y Salazar | Sinaloa | Gilberto Ruiz Almada | ||
| Durango | Ignacio Castillo Mena | Sonora | Juan José Gastelum García | ||
| Durango | Tomás Rangel Perales | Sonora | Adolfo de la Huerta Oriol | ||
| Guanajuato | Euquerio Guerrero López | Tabasco | Antonio Ocampo Ramírez Replaced Carlos Pellicer | ||
| Guanajuato | Jesús Cabrera Muñoz Ledo | Tabasco | Nicolás Reynés Berazaluce Replaced David Gustavo Gutiérrez | ||
| Guerrero | Jorge Soberón Acevedo | Tamaulipas | Morelos Jaime Canseco González | ||
| Guerrero | Alejandro Cervantes Delgado | Tamaulipas | Martha Chávez Padrón | ||
| Hidalgo | Humberto Lugo Gil | Tlaxcala | Jesús Hernández Rojas | ||
| Hidalgo | Vacant By leave of Guillermo Rossell de la Lama and Jorge Rojo Lugo | Tlaxcala | Rafael Minor Franco | ||
| Jalisco | José María Martínez Rodríguez | Veracruz | Silverio Ricardo Alvarado | ||
| Jalisco | Arnulfo Villaseñor Saavedra | Veracruz | Sergio Martínez Mendoza | ||
| State of Mexico | Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine | Yucatán | Víctor Cervera Pacheco | ||
| State of Mexico | Gustavo Baz | Yucatán | Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón | ||
| Michoacán | José Luis Escobar Herrera Replaced Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano | Zacatecas | Jorge Gabriel García Rojas | ||
| Michoacán | Guillermo Morfín García | Zacatecas | José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona | ||
| Morelos | Angel Ventura Valle | Federal District of Mexico | Luis del Toro Calero Replaced Hugo Cervantes del Río | ||
| Morelos | Javier Rondero Zubieta | Federal District of Mexico | Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe |
Chamber of Deputies
In the L Legislature, the Chamber of Deputies was composed of a total of 238 deputies, of which 196 were elected by majority vote in each constituency and 41 more were deputies by party. These were allocated in proportion to the votes that the non-winning parties obtained in the districts.The composition of the House of Representatives in the L Legislature was as follows:
Number of Deputies by political party
Deputies from single-member districts (plurality)
Deputies by party
Presidents of the high commission of the Camara of Deputies
- : Augusto Gómez Villanueva
- : Rodolfo González Guevara
- : Antonio Riva Palacio López
Main accomplishments
Legal reform, known formally as the Ley de Organizaciones Políticas y Procedimientos Electorales , defined and made possible procedures for the registration of new political parties , the Popular Socialist Party and the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ). This allowed for the registration, for the first time in 40 years of the Mexican Communist Party, which was followed by the National Assembly of the Socialist Left, the Mexican Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party.
In addition, the increased the size of the Chamber of Deputies, increasing the number of electoral districts from 196 to 300, and establishing deputies by proportional representation, replacing the previous deputies by party. There would be 100 such positions, resulting in the Chamber of Deputies, being composed of 400 deputies.