2024 Mexican local elections explained

Election Name:2024 Mexican local elections
Type:legislative
Country:Mexico
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2023 Mexican local elections
Previous Year:2023
Election Date:2 June 2024
Next Election:2025 Mexican local elections
Next Year:2025
Module:
Election Name:Gubernatorial elections
Embed:yes
Type:legislative
Previous Election:2023 Mexican local elections
Previous Year:2023
Next Election:2025 Mexican local elections
Next Year:2025
Seats For Election:8 governorships
1 head of government
Seats For Election:31 state congresses
1,580 municipalities

The 2024 Mexican local elections were held on 2 June 2024, during which voters elected eight governors for six-year terms, the Head of Government of Mexico City for a six-year term, deputies for thirty-one state congresses, and officials for 1,580 municipalities.[1] These elections took place concurrently with the country's general election.[2]

Prior to the elections, the country's two main coalitions, Juntos Hacemos Historia and Va por México, were succeeded by Sigamos Haciendo Historia and Fuerza y Corazón por México, which constituted the same parties as their predecessors.[3] [4] Of the governorships up for election, Sigamos Haciendo Historia currently held six, Fuerza y Corazón por México held two, and Citizens' Movement – which was participating without coalition support[5] – held one. This was the first gubernatorial election where most of the seats were held by a MORENA-led coalition.

In what was described as a "cherry tsunami",[6] [7] the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition successfully defended its existing gubernatorial seats, flipped Yucatán from the National Action Party,[8] and secured majorities in 27 of the 31 state congresses up for election.[9] This would facilitate the passage of constitutional amendments, which require approval from a majority of state legislatures.

Incidents

Assassinations

Since January 2024, at least 27 aspiring candidates for political office have been killed, while at least 828 non-lethal attacks on candidates have been recorded. This has led to the government providing security guards to around 560 candidates and election officials. Around 27,000 personnel of the Mexican Armed Forces and the National Guard have also been deployed to secure the electoral process.[10]

In Maravatio, Michoacán, Dagoberto García, the head of the MORENA party in the municipality and an aspiring candidate for mayor, disappeared in October 2023 and was found dead the following month. On 26 February 2024, Miguel Ángel Zavala, another aspiring mayoral candidate of MORENA in the town, was found fatally shot in his car. The following day, Armando Pérez Luna, PAN's mayoral candidate in the same town, was also found shot dead in his car.[11]

On 5 January, the PRI candidate for mayor of Suchiate, Chiapas, and the Citizens' Movement candidate for mayor in Armeria, Colima, were killed in separate attacks. In Guerrero, Alfredo González, a mayoral candidate in Atoyac de Álvarez, was killed in early March, followed by Tomás Morales, a prospective mayoral candidate of MORENA in Chilapa de Álvarez, on 12 March.[12]

In late March, the mayor of Churumuco, Michoacán, was shot dead in Morelia.[13] On 1 April, Bertha Gisela Gaytán, a mayoral candidate for MORENA, was shot dead while campaigning outside Celaya, Guanajuato, along with city council candidate Adrián Guerrero.[14] On 19 April, Noé Ramos Ferretiz, the joint PAN-PRI mayoral candidate for Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, was found fatally stabbed, while Alberto García, a mayoral candidate in San José Independencia, Oaxaca, was found beaten to death.[15] On 16 May, Lucero López Maza, a mayoral candidate in La Concordia, Chiapas, was killed along with five others during a gun attack on a campaign rally.[16] On 28 May, Ricardo Arizmendi, an alternate mayoral candidate in Cuautla, Morelos, was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles.[17] On 31 May, Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a mayoral candidate in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, was shot dead in a gun attack at a campaign rally that also injured his wife and another person.[18]

On 1 June, authorities ordered the suspension of voting in the municipalities of Pantelhó and Chicomuselo in Chiapas, citing the burning of election papers in the former by unknown individuals on 31 May and threats against poll workers by gang members.[19] Hours before polling opened on 2 June, Israel Delgado, a candidate for the municipal council of Cuitzeo, Michoacan, was shot dead by motorcycled gunmen.[20] While voting was underway, two people were killed in shootings at polling stations at Coyomeapan and Tlanalapan in Puebla.[21]

Disasters

See main article: San Pedro Garza García stage collapse. On 22 May, a stage being used by Citizens' Movement mayoral candidate for a campaign rally that was also attended by presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez was toppled by strong winds in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, killing nine people including a child, and injuring 121 others. Álvarez Máynez was unharmed.[22]

Gubernatorial races summary

StateIncumbentCandidates
GovernorParty
ChiapasRutilio Escandón
GuanajuatoDiego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo
JaliscoEnrique Alfaro Ramírez
MorelosCuauhtémoc Blanco
Mexico CityMartí Batres
PueblaSergio Salomón Céspedes
TabascoCarlos Manuel Merino Campos
VeracruzCuitláhuac García Jiménez
YucatánMauricio Vila Dosal

State legislative and municipal races

Aguascalientes

All 27 seats of the Congress of Aguascalientes are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 9 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 11 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
National Action Party13013
Morena077 1
Party of the Democratic Revolution404
Institutional Revolutionary Party101
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011
Citizens' Movement011
Total18 927

Baja California

All 25 seats of the Congress of Baja California were up for election, where 17 were elected through first-past-the-post voting and 8 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 7 municipalities were up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena14014 1
National Action Party033
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico112 1
Citizens' Movement011
Labor Party011 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party011
Solidarity Encounter Party011 2
Force for Mexico101 1
No party110 1
Total17825

Baja California Sur

All 21 seats of the Congress of Baja California Sur are up for election, where 16 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 5 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 5 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena12012 3
Labor Party314
New Alliance Party112 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011 1
National Action Party011
Institutional Revolutionary Party011 1
Total16521

Campeche

All 35 seats of the Congress of Campeche were up for election, where 21 were elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally all positions of the state's 13 municipalities were up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena12416 2
Citizens' Movement6410 5
Institutional Revolutionary Party123 3
Labor Party112 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico112 2
National Action Party022 1
Total211435

Chiapas

All 40 seats of the Congress of Chiapas are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 123 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena8412 3
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico639 1
Labor Party426
Institutional Revolutionary Party022
Citizens' Movement022 2
National Action Party022 1
Progressive Social Networks112 1
202
202
Social Encounter Party101
Total241640

Chihuahua

All 33 seats of the Congress of Chihuahua are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 11 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 67 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
National Action Party11112 3
Morena7512 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party325
Labor Party112 1
Citizens' Movement011 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011 1
Total221133

Coahuila

All positions of the state's 38 municipalities are up for election.

Colima

All 25 seats of the Congress of Colima are up for election, where 16 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 9 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 10 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena9211 1
Labor Party303 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico213 1
National Action Party123
Institutional Revolutionary Party123 2
Citizens' Movement011
New Alliance Party011
Total16925

Durango

All 25 seats of the Congress of Durango are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena549 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party437 1
National Action Party325 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico303 2
Citizens' Movement011 1
Total151025

Guanajuato

All 36 seats of the Congress of Guanajuato are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 46 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
National Action Party12416 5
Morena5510 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party123 1
Labor Party202 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico112
Citizens' Movement022 1
Party of the Democratic Revolution011 1
Total211536

Guerrero

All 46 seats of the Congress of Guerrero are up for election, where 28 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 18 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 84 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena16622
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico426 4
Institutional Revolutionary Party336 5
Labor Party325 4
Party of the Democratic Revolution224 5
Citizens' Movement022 2
National Action Party011
Total281846

Hidalgo

All 30 seats of the Congress of Hidalgo are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 84 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena14014 3
New Alliance Party426 4
Labor Party033 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 6
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico022
Citizens' Movement022 2
National Action Party011 1
Total181230

Jalisco

All 38 seats of the Congress of Jalisco are up for election, where 20 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 18 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 125 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Citizens' Movement4711 5
Morena4610 2
National Action Party235
Hagamos303 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party123 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico202 1
Futuro202 1
Labor Party202 2
Total201838

Michoacán

All 40 seats of the Congress of Michoacán are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 112 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena12214 4
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico527 5
Labor Party426 1
National Action Party134 4
Institutional Revolutionary Party033 5
Independents202 2
Citizens' Movement022 1
Party of the Democratic Revolution022 3
Total241640

Mexico City

All 66 seats of the Congress of Mexico City are up for election, where 33 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 33 through proportional representation. Additionally, the head of government and the entity's 16 borough mayors are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena131023 8
National Action Party6915 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico8412 10
Labor Party639 8
Citizens' Movement033 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party033 6
Party of the Democratic Revolution011 4
Total333366

State of Mexico

All 75 seats of the Congress of the State of Mexico are up for election, where 45 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 30 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 125 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena33639 14
Institutional Revolutionary Party279 13
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico448 6
National Action Party347 4
Labor Party336 2
Citizens' Movement044 2
Party of the Democratic Revolution022 2
Total333366

Morelos

All 20 seats of the Congress of Morelos are up for election, where 12 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 8 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 33 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena8210 3
National Action Party314 1
Labor Party112 1
Citizens' Movement011 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party011 1
New Alliance Party011
Total12820

Nayarit

All 30 seats of the Congress of Nayarit are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 20 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena12113 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico224 1
Labor Party213
National Action Party033 1
Force for Mexico202 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 1
Progressive Social Networks011
New Alliance Party011 2
Movimiento Levántate para Nayarit011 1
Total181230

Nuevo León

All 42 seats of the Congress of Nuevo León are up for election, where 26 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 51 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
National Action Party7310 6
Citizens' Movement6410 4
Morena549 7
Institutional Revolutionary Party538 6
Party of the Democratic Revolution303 3
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011 1
Labor Party011 1
Total261642

Oaxaca

All 42 seats of the Congress of Oaxaca are up for election, where 25 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 17 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 153 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena13922 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico617 6
Force for Mexico606 6
Labor Party033
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 6
Citizens' Movement011 1
National Action Party011 1
Total251742

Puebla

All 41 seats of the Congress of Puebla are up for election, where 26 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 15 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 217 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena11415 1
National Action Party077 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico606 5
Labor Party505
New Alliance Party202 1
Force for Mexico202 2
Citizens' Movement022 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 4
Total261541

Querétaro

All 25 seats of the Legislature of Querétaro are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 18 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena639 4
National Action Party538 5
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico213 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 1
Labor Party202 2
Citizens' Movement011 1
Total151025

Quintana Roo

All 25 seats of the Congress of Quintana Roo are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. All positions of the state's 11 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena9413 3
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico325 2
Labor Party303
National Action Party022 1
Citizens' Movement011
Institutional Revolutionary Party011
Total151025

San Luis Potosí

All 27 seats of the Congress of San Luis Potosí are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 58 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico639 3
Morena336 2
Labor Party404 1
National Action Party224 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 2
Citizens' Movement011
New Alliance Party011
Total151227

Sinaloa

All 40 seats of the Congress of Sinaloa are up for election, where 24 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 16 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 20 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena18321 1
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico606 6
Institutional Revolutionary Party044 4
National Action Party044 2
Citizens' Movement022 1
Partido Sinaloense022 6
Labor Party011
Total241640

Sonora

All 33 seats of the Congress of Sonora are up for election, where 21 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 72 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena718 6
Labor Party415 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico314 2
New Alliance Party314 2
Solidarity Encounter Party314 3
National Action Party112 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 2
Citizens' Movement022
Party of the Democratic Revolution011
Partido Sonorense011 1
Total211233

Tabasco

All 35 seats of the Congress of Tabasco are up for election, where 21 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 17 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena21021
Party of the Democratic Revolution044 2
Citizens' Movement033 2
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico033 2
Labor Party033 3
Institutional Revolutionary Party011 3
Total211435

Tamaulipas

All 36 seats of the Congress of Tamaulipas are up for election, where 22 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 14 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 43 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena13518
National Action Party167 6
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico404 4
Labor Party404 2
Citizens' Movement022 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party011 1
Total221436

Tlaxcala

All 25 seats of the Congress of Tlaxcala are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 60 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena15015 7
Labor Party022 2
Citizens' Movement011 1
Partido Alianza Ciudadana011
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico011 1
Institutional Revolutionary Party011 2
National Action Party011
Party of the Democratic Revolution011 1
Force for Mexico011
New Alliance Party011 1
Total151025

Veracruz

All 50 seats of the Congress of Veracruz are up for election, where 30 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 20 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship is up for election.

Yucatán

All 25 seats of the Congress of Yucatán are up for election, where 15 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 10 through proportional representation. Additionally, the governorship and all positions of the state's 106 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena14014 10
National Action Party4610 4
Labor Party224 4
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico123 2
Institutional Revolutionary Party022 2
Citizens' Movement022 1
Total211435

Zacatecas

All 30 seats of the Congress of Zacatecas are up for election, where 18 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 12 through proportional representation. Additionally, all positions of the state's 58 municipalities are up for election.

Party! colspan="3"
Seats
ConstituencyParty-listTotal
Morena11112
Institutional Revolutionary Party235 2
National Action Party213
Labor Party033
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico202 1
Party of the Democratic Revolution112
Citizens' Movement022 2
New Alliance Party011
Total181230

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Elecciones 2024 . 2024-01-13 . Instituto Nacional Electoral . es.
  2. Web site: Jose Marquez . 2023-06-05 . Elecciones 2024 en México: ¿qué se elige en los estados? . 2024-01-18 . Uno TV . es.
  3. Web site: Montesinos . Carlos . 2023-11-19 . Morena presenta nueva coalición con PT, Verde y restos de partidos desaparecidos . 2024-01-15 . Reporte Indigo . es.
  4. Web site: 2023-12-16 . Otorga INE registros de las coaliciones "Fuerza y Corazón por México" y "Sigamos Haciendo Historia" para el PEF 2023-2024 . 2024-01-15 . Central Electoral . es.
  5. Web site: Movimiento Ciudadano no va en alianza con ningún partido político en las elecciones federales; propone construir un nuevo trato para el país: la Evolución Mexicana . 2024-01-15 . movimientociudadano.mx . es.
  6. Web site: 2024-06-03 . El 'tsunami guinda': Morena arrasa en las Elecciones en México 2024 . 2024-08-25 . Radio Fórmula . es-MX.
  7. Web site: Maldonado . Carlos S. . 2024-06-03 . Morena, el ‘tsunami’ político de México: de dominar 4 a 24 estados en seis años . 2024-08-25 . El País México . es-MX.
  8. Web site: C.V . DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de . 2024-06-04 . La Jornada: Se consumó la sorpresa: en Yucatán se impuso Huacho Díaz a Renán Barrera . 2024-08-25 . www.jornada.com.mx . es-MX.
  9. Web site: 2024-06-14 . Morena y aliados ya son mayoría en 27 legislaturas estatales, claves para el “Plan C” . 2024-08-25 . SinEmbargo MX . es.
  10. News: Elections Suspended In Two Violent Mexico Municipalities . 2 June 2024 . Barron's . en.
  11. Web site: Stevenson . Mark . 2024-02-28 . Two mayoral hopefuls of a Mexican city are shot dead within hours of each other . 2024-03-02 . Associated Press . en.
  12. Web site: 14 March 2024 . Another mayoral hopeful is killed in southern Mexico, one of a half-dozen murdered this year . 14 March 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  13. Web site: 2 April 2024 . A candidate for mayor of a violent city in Mexico has been killed as she began campaigning . 2 April 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  14. Web site: 2 April 2024 . Mexico's president mourns after 2 local candidates are killed shortly after starting their campaigns . 2 April 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  15. Web site: 20 April 2024 . 2 mayoral candidates killed in Mexico, bringing the number slain so far to 17 . 20 April 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  16. Web site: 17 May 2024 . Mayoral candidate and five other people killed in gunfire at a campaign rally in southern Mexico . 17 May 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  17. News: Violence clouds the last day of campaigning in Mexico's elections . 29 May 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  18. News: Mayoral candidate murdered in Mexico two days before election . 1 June 2024 . Al Jazeera . en.
  19. News: Elections In Two Mexico Municipalities Suspended Over Violence . 2 June 2024 . Barron's . en.
  20. News: Mexico awaits results in an election likely to choose the country's first female president . 3 June 2024 . Associated Press . en.
  21. News: Front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum poised to become Mexico's 1st woman president . 3 June 2024 . CBC . en.
  22. Web site: 23 March 2024 . Stage collapse at a campaign rally in northern Mexico kills at least 9 people and injures 121 . 23 May 2024 . Associated Press . en.