winner and would become president. |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=2 |Candidates ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Alliance ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |% |- | style="background-color:#3333FF;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Felipe Calderón | style="text-align:left;" |National Action Party | style="text-align:left;" |None |15,000,284 |35.89% |- | style="background-color:#FFE153;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Andrés Manuel López Obrador | style="text-align:left;" |Party of the Democratic Revolution | style="text-align:left;" |Coalición por el Bien de Todos |14,756,350 |35.31% |- | style="background-color:#CC0000;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Roberto Madrazo | style="text-align:left;" |Institutional Revolutionary Party | style="text-align:left;" |Alianza por México |9,301,441 |22.26% |- | style="background-color:#FF3300;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Patricia Mercado | style="text-align:left;" |Social Democratic and Peasant Alternative Party | style="text-align:left;" |None |1,128,850 |2.70% |- | style="background-color:#2DBBEA;" | | style="text-align:left;" |Roberto Campa Cifrián | style="text-align:left;" |New Alliance Party | style="text-align:left;" |None |401,804 |0.96% |- | style="background-color:#E3E3E3;" | | style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Write in |297,989 |0.71% |- | style="background-color:#E3E3E3;" | | style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Blank/Invalid |904,604 |2.16% |- |colspan=4 style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|41,791,322 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.0% |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan=6 | Source: Instituto Federal Electoral |} In contesting the election, López Obrador and his coalition made several arguments: (a) that President Fox, the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), a business interest group, and other organizations had illegally interfered in the presidential campaign, which is strictly prohibited by electoral law, thereby providing grounds for election annulment; that (b) that votes were fraudulently tallied on 2 July and afterward; and that (c) there was widespread and significant evidence of electoral irregularities, ranging from stuffed ballot boxes and inconsistent tally reports to improper and illegal handling of the ballot trail and voter intimidation. The Court did find that President Fox and the CCE had interfered in the elections by campaigning for Felipe Calderón, which is against electoral laws. The TEPJF determined that it was unfeasible to accurately evaluate the influence this interference had on the election results but estimated the impact of Fox's interference as insignificant. Similarly, the tribunal stated that it could not gauge the importance of CCE's interference. Consequently, the Court ruled that both interferences could not be considered a sufficient judicial cause to annul the election. In response to fraud allegations, the Court stated there was a lack of enough evidence to annul the election. López Obrador and his coalition had alleged irregularities in many polling stations and requested a national recount. Ultimately, the TEPJF, in a unanimous vote, ordered a recount of about 9% of the polling stations. The Supreme Court