Turnout: 61.05%
About this election
On 2 June 2024 Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president — and the first president of Jewish heritage — in the largest election the country had ever held. The former head of government of Mexico City and chosen successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador won by a margin of more than 32 points, the widest in Mexico's democratic era, and received the most votes ever cast for a candidate in the country's history. Her victory confirmed the dominance of the Morena movement and continued the "Fourth Transformation" begun in 2018.
As in every Mexican presidential election, the head of state is chosen for a single, non-renewable six-year term by a simple national plurality, with no run-off. The 2024 vote was concurrent with the renewal of the entire Congress — 500 deputies and 128 senators — and with thousands of state and local contests, making it the biggest single election day in Mexican history with more than 20,000 posts at stake. The INE administered the vote; the official count (cómputo) of each of the 300 districts produces the national result.
For the first time, the two leading candidates were both women. Sheinbaum, a climate scientist by training, headed the ruling "Sigamos Haciendo Historia" coalition of Morena, the PT and the Green Party (PVEM), running as the guarantor of continuity for López Obrador's popular social programmes. The opposition "Fuerza y Corazón por México" — an alliance of the PAN, PRI and PRD — nominated Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a businesswoman of Indigenous Otomí background, who attacked the government over organised-crime violence and the militarisation of public life. Citizens' Movement, refusing both blocs, ran the young Jorge Álvarez Máynez. The campaign was the bloodiest on record for candidates at local level, with dozens of aspirants murdered.
Sheinbaum won 35.9 million votes — 61.18%, to Gálvez's 28.11% and Máynez's 10.57%. She carried 31 of 32 states, losing only Aguascalientes, and notably flipped Guanajuato, the PAN heartland that had been the single state AMLO failed to win in 2018. Turnout was 61%. Down the ballot, the governing coalition won supermajorities or near-supermajorities in both chambers of Congress.
Sheinbaum took office on 1 October 2024. Armed with a Congress close to the two-thirds threshold, the new government swiftly enacted constitutional changes that had been pending under López Obrador, most controversially a sweeping reform making judges — including Supreme Court justices — subject to popular election, which drew warnings from investors and legal scholars about judicial independence. Her presidency opened amid continuing high levels of violence and a tense relationship with a re-elected Donald Trump over trade and migration.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.