Climate scientist Claudia Sheinbaum had an irreversible lead Sunday in the election that would make her Mexico’s first female president, according to an official quick count.
The president of the National Electoral Institute said that Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes, according to a statistical sample.
The opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6% and 28.6% of the votes and Jorge Álvarez Máynez had between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes.
The candidate of the ruling party campaigned with the idea of continuing the political course set in the last six years by her political mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Her anointed successor, Sheinbaum, 61, led the campaign from start to finish despite Gálvez’s spirited challenge. This was the first time in Mexico that the two main opponents were women.
“Of course, I respectfully congratulate Claudia Sheinbaum, who was the winner by a wide margin,” López Obrador said shortly after the announcement by the electoral authorities. She “is going to be the first president of Mexico in 200 years.”
If the margin holds, he would get closer to his landslide victory in 2018. López Obrador won the presidency after two failed attempts with 53.2% of the vote, in a three-way race in which Acción Nacional took 22 .3% and the Institutional Revolutionary Party 16.5%.
It is estimated that electoral participation was around 60% of the electoral roll.
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