Mexico Presidential election 2018 — Results
Election day: July 1, 2018
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 54.71%
- Ricardo Anaya: 22.91%
- José Antonio Meade: 16.88%
- Jaime Rodríguez "El Bronco": 5.38%
- Margarita Zavala: 0.06%
Turnout: 63.43%
About this election
How the voting works
The President of the United Mexican States is elected for a single six-year term — the sexenio — with no possibility of re-election, ever, a principle inherited from the Revolution. The election uses a simple plurality (first-past-the-post) of the national popular vote: there is no run-off and no electoral college, so a candidate can win with far less than half the vote. The same day, voters renew the entire 500-seat Chamber of Deputies and the 128-seat Senate. Elections are organised by the National Electoral Institute (INE), an autonomous body whose independence was the central achievement of Mexico's democratic transition.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 31.80 points separated Andrés Manuel López Obrador from Ricardo Anaya — 17,503,363 votes.
- The top two shared 77.62% of the vote between them, and 4 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador ranged from 80.09% in Tabasco to 30.42% in Guanajuato — a spread of 49.67 points across 32 regions, and it led in 31 of 32.
- Turnout of 63.43% is the highest of the 2 presidential elections covered here since 2018.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure