(CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon's ruling party was poised to lose legislative seats after preliminary midterm election results released late Sunday showed the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) holding a solid lead.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has three years left in his six-year term.
Unofficial results provided by the Federal Electoral Institute showed PRI with 35.5 percent of the vote to 27 percent for Calderon's National Action Party (PAN).
The PRI is a powerhouse in Mexican politics and held a stranglehold on the presidency from 1929 until the 2000. PAN candidate Vicente Fox -- Calderon's predecessor -- broke that hold nine years ago.
Coming in a distant third was the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), at 12.3 percent, which narrowly lost the 2006 presidential election.
PAN has the most seats in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Mexico's Congress, but it does not have a majority in either. The party was expected to lose seats after Sunday, but it was uncertain how many.
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