Looking at the Mexican Election Results: Allan Wall
https://mexiconewsreport.com/index.php/2024/06/08/looking-at-mexican-election-results/
The Mexican election of 2024, held on June 2nd, 2024, was won by Claudia Sheinbaum of the MORENA party. She is scheduled to assume the presidency on the 1st of October, as Mexico’s first woman president and Mexico’s first Jewish president.
And it wasn’t just a presidential election. It was also an election for the entire Mexican Congress. All 128 seats in the Senado and all 500 seats in the Cámara de Diputados were at stake.
The mayorship of Mexico City was decided, as were 8 state governorships.
There were elections for state legislatures and local governments.
Across Mexico there were more than 20,000 official posts up for grabs on June 2nd, with 70,000 candidates competing for them.
Let’s look at some results:There were three candidates:
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM Candidate of the MORENA/PT/GREEN coalition.
XOCHITL GALVEZ Candidate of the PAN/PRI/PRD coalition.
JORGE ALVAREZ MAYNEZ Candidate of the Movimiento Ciudadano party.
Here are the results, according to INE (Instituto National Electoral), the Mexican national electoral agency:
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM received 35,924,519 votes, which was 59.7594 % of the total.
XOCHITL GALVEZ received 16,502,697 votes, which was 27.4517 % of the total.
JORGE ALVAREZ MAYNEZ received 6,204,710 votes, which was 10.3213% of the total.
So Claudia Sheinbaum won the election very handily. She won in every state except the central state of Aguascalientes, where Xochitl Galvez won narrowly.
CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM DIDN’T EVEN VOTE FOR HERSELF !
When she went to vote on June 2nd, Claudia Sheinbaum was so confident of victory that she didn’t even vote for herself!
After voting, she announced that she had voted for Ifigenia Martinez.
Ifigenia Martinez is a Mexican politician, diplomat and academic who was was head of the school of Economics at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, from 1966 to 1970. During the political unrest of 1968, she defended her school when the Mexican Army took control of parts of the UNAM. Sheinbaum respects her for this and thus voted for her as an homage to her.
It appears then that Claudia was confident enough of victory to do this.
MEXICO CITY
GOVERNORSHIPS
There were 8 state governorships up for grabs, and the MORENA/PT/Green party won 6 of them: Chiapas, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatan state. Movimiento Ciudadano won in the state of Jalisco and the PAN/PRI/PRD coalition won in Guanajuato.
THE MEXICAN CONGRESS
The MORENA/PT/Green alliance also did quite well in
congressional elections, winning a majority in both houses of Congress. The new
Congress begins its term on September 1st, which is one month before Claudia
Sheinbaum takes office on October 1st. That means that for one month, September
of 2024, the new Congress would be working with current President AMLO, in his
final month in office.
Mexico City is not a state, but it’s the equivalent of a state. Its elected leader is not called a governor, but the Jefe (for a man) or Jefa (for a woman) de Gobierno, the “Chief of Government”.
In this election, the post was won by Clara Brugada, of the MORENA/Green/PT coalition. She is scheduled to take office on October 5th.
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