According to the first exit polls, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, candidate of the National Regeneration Movement won the election for the Head of Government of Mexico City on Sunday and did so with a wide margin in front of her closest opponents: Alejandra Barrales Magdaleno , of PRD, and Mikel Arriola Peñalosa, of PRI.
The representative of the left, led by the Tabasco-born Andres Lopez Obrador, also virtual winner of the race for the Presidency of Mexico, defeated the Democratic Revolution Party, which has ruled the country’s capital for 21 years. In addition, Dr. Sheinbaum Pardo will make history -as soon as those results are confirmed- as the first woman elected to govern the capital city, even from its foundation as Tenochtitlan in 1325.
The exit poll of Consulta Mitofsky gave a maximum of 55.5 percent of the votes by 33 percent of Alejandra Barrales Magdaleno, representative of the coalition “Por México al Frente”, made up of the PRD itself, the National Action and Movement Party Citizen (MC), and 16.1 percent of Mikel Arriola Peñalosa, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
On the other hand, the Buendía & Laredo survey gives a range of 47 to 55 percent against 25 to 31 of Alejandra Barrales and 9 to 15 percent of Mikel Arriola.
The newspaper El Financiero also announced, at 6:30 in the afternoon, without giving specific figures, that in its projections there was “a significant difference” in favor of Sheinbaum.
