2018 Mexican general election

General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018.^[1] Voters elected a new president to serve a term of five years and ten months.^[2]

1 July 2018
Presidential election
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Turnout	63.43% ( 0.35 pp)
Nominee Andrés Manuel López Obrador Ricardo Anaya Party MORENA PAN Alliance Juntos Haremos Historia Por México al Frente Popular vote 30,113,483 12,610,120 Percentage 54.71% 22.91%   Candidate José Antonio Meade Jaime Rodríguez Calderón Party PRI Independent Alliance Todos por México Popular vote 9,289,853 2,961,732 Percentage 16.88% 5.38%
President before election Enrique Peña Nieto PRI Elected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador MORENA
Senate
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All 128 seats in the Senate of the Republic 65 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats ± Juntos Haremos Historia (69 seats) MORENA Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz 39.12 55 PT Alberto Anaya 3.98 6 PES Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes 2.43 8 Por México al Frente (38 seats) PAN Damián Zepeda Vidales 18.35 23 PRD Manuel Granados Covarrubias 5.49 8 MC Dante Delgado Rannauro 4.89 7 Todos por México (21 seats) PRI René Juárez Cisneros 16.59 14 PVEM Carlos Alberto Puente Salas 4.65 6 PNA Luis Castro Obregón 2.41 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

It also elected 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. It has been the most violent campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history, with 130 political figures killed since September 2017.

During the election cycle, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the leading candidate and would eventually win in a landslide victory.^[3][4]

Currently, the results are: López Obrador, 53%; Anaya, 23%; Meade, 16%; and Rodríguez Calderón, 5%. This is the first time since the (controversial) 1988 election that a presidential candidate has been elected with an absolute majority (50%+1) of the votes cast.^[5]

Polling

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  Opinion polling of candidates from November 2017 until the election

Results

Candidate		Party	Alliance	Votes	%
	Andrés Manuel López Obrador	National Regeneration Movement	Juntos Haremos Historia	30,113,483	53.19
	Ricardo Anaya	National Action Party	Por México al Frente	12,610,120	22.28
	José Antonio Meade	Institutional Revolutionary Party	Todos por México	9,289,853	16.41
	Jaime Rodríguez Calderón	Independent	None	2,961,732	5.23
	Margarita Zavala[a]	Independent	None	32,743	0.06
	Write-in votes			31,982	0.06
Invalid/blank votes				1,571,114	2.78
Total				56,611,027	100
Registered voters/turnout				89,994,039	63.43
Source: INE

Popular Vote López Obrador   53.19% Anaya   22.28% Meade   16.41% Rodríguez Calderón   5.23% Zavala   0.06% Other   0.06% Invalid/blank   2.78%

Notes

1. Dropped out of the race, but votes towards her were counted