The 2018 General Elections were held in Mexico on Sunday July 01,2018.
Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a term of five years and ten months (reduced by two months from the constitutional mandate due to a change in the inauguration date as of 2014),
128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and
500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years.
It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day, including nine governorships, with over 3,400 positions subject to elections all levels of government
The incumbent president Enrique Peña Nieto was not constitutionally eligible for a second term.
Incumbent members of the legislature are term-limited, thus all members of Congress will be newly elected. As a consequence of the political reform of 2014, the members of the legislature elected in this election will be the first allowed to run for reelection in subsequent elections.
2018 Mexican Presidential Election Results
After 18 years of establishment politics, Mexicans decided on Sunday that enough was enough, electing the leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoras president in a landslide victory in an election of firsts.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidency with a large margin on Sunday. Known as AMLO, he was born in 1953 in a small village to a family of modest means in the southeastern state of Tabasco.
He worked for the state’s Indigenous Affairs Bureau in the 1970s, and began his political career by joining the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and became the Tabasco state president for the party.
Mr. Obrador joined the political movement against the candidacy of Salinas de Gortari, the Mexican President from 1988 to 1994, and was part of the founding of what is now the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
From 1996-99 he served as the national president of the PRD, and in 2000, Mr. Obrador was elected as the Mayor of Mexico City His term as Mayor saw him embarking on a slew of social welfare programmes and public works.
In 2006, Mr. Obrador faced electoral defeat in his presidential bid against Felipe Calderón. His next bid was thwarted too, when Enrique Peña Nieto was chosen as President in 2012.
Disappointed with the PRD’s support for Mr. Peña Nieto’s economic initiatives, Mr. Obrador founded a new party, the National Regeneration Movement in 2014, and won the elections in 2018 with 53.8% of the votes in his favour.
Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a term of five years and ten months (reduced by two months from the constitutional mandate due to a change in the inauguration date as of 2014),
128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and
500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years.
It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day, including nine governorships, with over 3,400 positions subject to elections all levels of government
The incumbent president Enrique Peña Nieto was not constitutionally eligible for a second term.
Incumbent members of the legislature are term-limited, thus all members of Congress will be newly elected. As a consequence of the political reform of 2014, the members of the legislature elected in this election will be the first allowed to run for reelection in subsequent elections.
2018 Mexican Presidential Election Results
President-elect Lopez Obrador
is estimated to have received over 53% of the vote, more than double the
total of his closest rival, according to the country's electoral
commission.
"Today, they
have recognized our victory," Lopez Obrador, known by his initials
AMLO, told a crowd of jubilant supporters at an event in Mexico City
late Sunday local time.
After 18 years of establishment politics, Mexicans decided on Sunday that enough was enough, electing the leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obradoras president in a landslide victory in an election of firsts.
Capturing
more than half the vote, according to early returns, he won by the
largest margin in a presidential race since the nation transitioned to
democracy nearly 20 years ago.
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, known
as the P.R.I., dominated politics in Mexico from 1929 until 2000, when
it was unseated by the conservative National Action Party, or P.A.N., at
the time led by Vicente Fox.
Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, celebrate at the Zocalo square in Mexico City.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidency with a large margin on Sunday. Known as AMLO, he was born in 1953 in a small village to a family of modest means in the southeastern state of Tabasco.
He worked for the state’s Indigenous Affairs Bureau in the 1970s, and began his political career by joining the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and became the Tabasco state president for the party.
Mr. Obrador joined the political movement against the candidacy of Salinas de Gortari, the Mexican President from 1988 to 1994, and was part of the founding of what is now the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
From 1996-99 he served as the national president of the PRD, and in 2000, Mr. Obrador was elected as the Mayor of Mexico City His term as Mayor saw him embarking on a slew of social welfare programmes and public works.
In 2006, Mr. Obrador faced electoral defeat in his presidential bid against Felipe Calderón. His next bid was thwarted too, when Enrique Peña Nieto was chosen as President in 2012.
Disappointed with the PRD’s support for Mr. Peña Nieto’s economic initiatives, Mr. Obrador founded a new party, the National Regeneration Movement in 2014, and won the elections in 2018 with 53.8% of the votes in his favour.
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