Overview

• Preliminary results show candidates tied to President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena party winning a majority of the nine Supreme Court seats.
• Mixtec lawyer Hugo Aguilar leads the vote count to become chief justice, potentially the first Indigenous head of the court since Benito Juárez in 1857.
• Voter participation hovered around 13%, as many Mexicans found the ballot’s long list of judicial candidates confusing and opposition groups called for a boycott.
• Electoral authorities are probing allegations that pamphlets promoting Morena-backed candidates were distributed at polling stations.
• The newly elected justices are scheduled to take office on September 1, consolidating Morena’s control over all three branches of government.