On June 7, Mexican voters went to the polls for the country’s midterm election, with over 2,100 different positions in local, state, and federal legislatures on the ballot.

The election arrived in a year of widespread social unrest in the country. Since the massacre of forty-three students in Iguala, Guerrero back in September, Mexico has witnessed one of the largest protest movements in recent history. There have been marches on the capital, riots around the country, and calls for the impeachment of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Pundits wondered if revolution were at hand. With so much anger directed at the ruling right-wing coalition, many hoped that the Left might “turn outrage into political power.”

They did not. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) secured 203 seats in Congress, losing a mere 4 seats from its 207 in the 2012 election. Its losses were more than compensated for by the gains of Mexico’s Green Party — an extraordinary misnomer for a corrupt, pro-fracking party — which nearly doubled their total seats to 47. The ruling coalition had little trouble reasserting its majority control of the legislature.