Voting is reported to have been calm in municipal elections in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas which were postponed following widespread flooding in September.

A spokesman for the governing party in Mexico, the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, Hector Robelo told the BBC that voting had been peaceful, and expressed confidence that the election had been free and fair.

But the main left-wing opposition party, the PRD said the electoral process was flawed because many people had lost their identity papers in the flooding, and were therefore unable to vote.

In the remaining areas of Chiapas, where voting took place in October, the PRI won a majority of seats