Overview

• President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated participation between 12.6% and 13.3% as a “total success” despite far lower engagement than last year’s 60% presidential vote turnout.
• The vote implemented a constitutional reform introduced by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, contesting 881 federal posts from district judges to nine Supreme Court justices.
• Opposition parties and protesters denounced the elections as a bid by the ruling Morena party to control the judiciary, holding demonstrations under slogans such as “No to judicial fraud.”
• Voters navigated ballots of varying sizes listing hundreds of candidates, a complexity highlighted by Sheinbaum’s own 11-minute ballot completion.
• Defensorxs identified nearly 20 candidates with alleged ties to organized crime, including a former defense attorney for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán running in Ciudad Juárez.