Mexico’s governing party wins election in key state

Mexico’s ruling party has almost certainly managed to keep control of the country’s largest state, in a victory yesterday that its Left-wing rivals vowed to contest.

With nearly 98 per cent of the ballots counted in Mexico State, Alfredo del Mazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party had 33.7 per cent of the vote to 30.8 per cent for his main rival, Delfina Gomez of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). The election in the wealthy state of 16million people was being watched as a bellwether ahead of presidential polls next year.