Pena Nieto wins Mexico president election: partial results

MEXICO CITY: Enrique Pena Nieto, the new face of the party that governed Mexico for seven decades, won Sunday's presidential election, according to first official results by the electoral office.

Pena Nieto, the handsome candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), had around 38 percent of the vote against around 31 percent for his nearest rival, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), according to the early count by the independent Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).