Turnout: 61.04%

Overview

The Chamber of Deputies election of 2 June 2024, held alongside Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential landslide, returned the governing Morena coalition to power with its largest legislative majority yet — close to the two-thirds supermajority that would allow it to amend the constitution. The result, amplified by Mexico's seat-allocation rules, gave the incoming administration extraordinary legislative reach and reopened debate over the over-representation of the leading bloc.

The electoral system

The 500 deputies are elected by the familiar mixed system: 300 single-member districts plus 200 proportional seats across five regional constituencies, for three-year terms. A constitutional cap limits any single party to at most 8 percentage points of seat share above its vote share. In 2024 the way coalition seats were distributed among Morena, the PT and the PVEM allowed the governing bloc's combined seat share (around 73%) to run well ahead of its roughly 54% combined vote, prompting a fierce dispute before the electoral tribunal over whether the cap had been respected.

The campaign

The governing "Sigamos Haciendo Historia" coalition (Morena, PT, PVEM) ran on continuity with López Obrador's social programmes and Sheinbaum's commanding lead. The opposition "Fuerza y Corazón por México" (PAN, PRI, PRD) campaigned on rising organised-crime violence and the erosion of independent institutions, while Citizens' Movement again stood apart. As at the presidential level, the campaign saw an unprecedented wave of violence against candidates for local and federal office.

The result

The Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition took roughly 54% of the combined vote and 364 of 500 seats; Morena alone won 236. The opposition Fuerza y Corazón coalition managed just 108 seats and Citizens' Movement 27. The electoral tribunal upheld the allocation, leaving the governing bloc two or three seats short of two-thirds in its own right but able to reach it with sympathetic independents.

Aftermath

The near-supermajority let the new Congress, which convened on 1 September 2024 before Sheinbaum took office, pass a backlog of constitutional reforms inherited from López Obrador — above all the judicial reform introducing the popular election of judges. The scale of Morena's congressional dominance, and the mechanics that produced it, became a defining controversy of the new sexenio and a rallying point for an opposition reduced to its weakest position in decades.

Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.

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