This May 7, the University Electoral Simulation was carried out in which more than 100 institutions around the country participated. The objective of the exercise was to obtain a representative sample of what the young vote could be like on June 2, the day of the presidential elections in Mexico.
The University Electoral Simulation consisted of installing symbolic boxes in the different schools and inviting the students to share their vote on a ballot inside a ballot box, just as in the elections organized by the National Electoral Institute, each person was able to mark the ballot secretly.
Each university released its sheet after counting the votes and after computing a little more than half and adding the total, the results were as follows:
- Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo obtained 65% of the votes
- Jorge Álvarez Máynez obtained 22.2% of the votes
- Xóchitl Gálvez obtained 7.7% of the votes
- 5.2% of votes were annulled
It is important to mention that these results represent 53% of participants in the University Electoral Simulation, the figures will be adjusted at 11:00 on May 8, meanwhile, the calculation shows that the candidate of Let’s continue making history was victorious in said exercise.
On the other hand, the votes of Xóchitl Gálvez supporters only exceeded the null votes by 2.5%, placing the Fuerza y Corazón por México candidate in third place in the year.
Second place was obtained by Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadano.
The majority of university students are between 18 and 23 years old, so they are considered within the young population and this is the first time that they participate in a democratic exercise to elect the president of the country, this is a Representative simulation of many Mexican institutions.
This was the message that could be read from the official account of the 2024 Electoral Simulation in Mexico:
“Thank you to the entire university community in all the campuses that participated today in the University Electoral Simulation, where it was demonstrated that our vote will be the one that defines the course of the presidential elections. Vote June 2!
In addition, they specified that the calculation of all university sheets has not yet been completed; the cutoff was at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7.
“We open a thread | It is a preliminary cut at 8.30 pm on Tuesday, May 7 with 53% of the participation computed, the official results will be at 11 am on Wednesday, May 8,” it was read.
