Mexico - Election Results Upheld - NYTimes.com An official count of votes in Mexico's presidential election confirmed the victory of Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate seeking to return to power the former governing party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the country's electoral authority reported Thursday night. With more than 99 percent of the ballot boxes counted as of 9 p.m. - and more than half of them double-checked because of the possibility of fraud - Mr. Peña Nieto had more than 38 percent of the vote. In second place was Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party, with more than 31 percent.