Morena’s victory in the Mexico City Headquarters is consolidated with the results obtained in the capital’s mayoralties, marked by a high citizen participation of 69.62%. In these elections, the ruling party has recovered two important mayoralties that it had lost in the 2021 elections: Tlalpan and Azcapotzalco. According to the preliminary results of the Electoral Institute of Mexico City (IECM), Nancy Núñez obtained 52.1% of the votes in Azcapotzalco and Gabriela Osorio took 51.6% in the Tlalpan mayor’s office. The two demarcations join Gustavo A. Madero (55.4%), Venustiano Carranza (53.1%), Iztacalco (49%), Iztapalapa (62.9%), Tláhuac (46.3%), Milpa Alta (46.5%) and Xochimilco (49%), all for Morena, which almost entirely paints the map of the capital in cherry color.
The National Action Party (PAN) has won the mayoralties of Miguel Hidalgo (54.5%), Benito Juárez (69.1%), while the opposition coalition PRI – PAN – PRD has won in Coyoacán (47%) and Cuauhtémoc, the latter, one of the most disputed mayoralties of the campaign. Alessandra Rojo de la Vega of the PRI – PAN – PRD has managed to beat Caty Monreal, of Morena, by 46.4% of the votes.
Magdalena Contreras, Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón in dispute
The results in the Magdalena Contreras, Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón mayors are still unclear. The very close percentages between candidates have not shown a clear winner during the IECM quick count. In Magdalena Contreras Morena obtained 46.7% of the votes, while the PRI – PAN – PRD was left with a tight 42.4%. In 2021, the opposition took this mayoralty to the west of the capital from Morena and participation will be key again to define the balance between the two parties. Magdalena Contreras is governed by PRI member Luis Gerardo Quijano, who is seeking re-election. Until recently, the polls gave him the lead, but now they give it by a few points to Fernando Mercado, from the Morena, Green and PT coalition.
Cuajimalpa has a complex scenario. Its mayor, the PRI member Adrián Rubalcava, tried to be the opposition candidate for the head of Government, but when he lost the election he left the tricolor party and joined the ranks of Morena. Since then he has been accompanying the cherry campaign in that delegation and has drawn it into his territorial base that allowed him to win the elections in 2021. Given the close results, it is difficult to predict what will happen. Morena and her candidate, Gustavo Mendoza, in this first count are left with 42.4% of the votes; Rafael Montiel, Rubalcava’s replacement and PRI – PAN – PRD standard bearer, obtained 46.8% of the votes.
The results in Álvaro Obregón are also very close. Won by the PAN in the last elections, this time the results have been very close. Morena obtained 46.7% of the votes while the PRI – PAN – PRD received 45.1%.
Election map in 2021
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