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Mexican election events

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1988 Mexican general election

The 1988 Mexican general election (6 July 1988) pitted PRI candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari against Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of the FDN and Manuel Clouthier of the PAN; official results gave Salinas just under 49 percent amid fraud allegations and the caída del sistema.

2000 Mexican general election

2000 Mexican general election, July 2, 2000: Vicente Fox (PAN-PVEM Alianza para el Cambio) won 42.6% of 37.6 million votes, defeating PRI's Francisco Labastida (36.1%) and PRD's Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (16.6%), ending 71 years of PRI rule.

2006 Mexican general election

2006 Mexican general election (July 2, 2006): Felipe Calderón of PAN beat Andrés Manuel López Obrador of PRD by 0.56%, about 233,000 votes; a partial 9% recount, tribunal certification, post-electoral protests, and the 2007 electoral reform followed.

2012 Mexican general election

The 2012 Mexican general election was a federal election held on July 1, 2012, in which PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto won the presidency with 38.2% of the vote.

2018 Mexican general election

The 2018 Mexican general election (held 1 July 2018) elected president, 500 deputies, and 128 senators; AMLO of Juntos Haremos Historia won 53.19% over Anaya, Meade, and independent Rodríguez.

2024 Mexican general election

The 2024 Mexican general election was held on June 2, 2024, electing 20,708 officials, including Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, with about 59 percent of the vote.

2027 Mexican legislative election

Mexico's 2027 legislative midterm election, held 6 June 2027, renews all 500 Chamber of Deputies seats (300 majoritarian, 200 proportional) alongside 17 governorships and more than 19,000 local positions.

Elections in Mexico

Elections in Mexico, organized by the INE and adjudicated by the TEPJF, renew the presidency, Congress, 32 state governments and, since the June 2025 judicial election, federal and state judges; the 2027 midterms elect 500 deputies and 17 governorships.

List of politicians killed during the 2024 Mexican elections

The list of politicians killed during the 2024 Mexican elections covers the 34 to 36 candidates murdered in the most violent Mexican electoral cycle in recent history.

Sigamos Haciendo Historia

Sigamos Haciendo Historia: Mexican electoral coalition of Morena, PT, and PVEM for the 2024 elections, successor to Juntos Hacemos Historia; it postulated Claudia Sheinbaum for president and won the presidency and a legislative majority, with plans to continue in 2027.