Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Presidency in Historic Landslide

In general elections on June 2, 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum won with 58.3%–60.7% of the vote — the highest vote total ever recorded for a candidate in Mexican history. Her closest rival, opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, received 26.6%–28.6%. Sheinbaum carried 31 of 32 states. Morena and its allies won a two-thirds supermajority in both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Sheinbaum became Mexico's first female president and the first president of Jewish background; she is also a climate scientist who contributed to the 2007 IPCC Nobel Peace Prize work.