A few problems did occur during the voting yesterday, including armed men breaking into a Monterrey polling station and stealing ballot boxes.
In Rincon Chamula troops had to be called out to stop violence between supporters of the PRI and the Green Party.
Reports from there list several as being injured and three dead.
Nieto brings the Institutional Revolution Party back to power after twelve years of the National Action Party.
Before that the PRI had held power for over seventy years.
The PRI is also expected to end up with governors in twenty-one of the thirty-one states.
During the course of out going President Calderon's term, more than sixty thousand Mexicans are believed to have lost their lives in the drug war.
Drug lords gained a lot of territory during the time that PAN ran the country, causing many people to want the old powers back in hopes of returning stability.
Mexico's economy is however growing strongly, with only 4.5% unemployment, and a blossoming middle class.
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