World IN BRIEF : MEXICO : Ruling Party Wins Big in Chihuahua

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has ruled Mexico since 1929, regained control of the legislature in Chihuahua, the only state where opposition lawmakers had a majority, election results showed. With 90% of the votes from Sunday’s elections counted, the party had secured 15 of 18 positions in the state legislature and 55 of the 67 mayoralties in the state. Chihuahua was the only state in Mexico to have an opposition governor and legislature simultaneously and was the second state ever to elect an opposition governor when Francisco Barrio assumed the post in 1992. The opposition National Action Party, which had controlled the legislature, retained the mayor’s slot in Juarez, Mexico’s fourth-largest city.