Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president .Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first woman president in the country's 200-year history.

 On Sunday night, the climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City announced that her two competitors had called to concede her victory.

"I will become the first woman president of Mexico," Sheinbaum said with a smile, speaking at a downtown hotel shortly after electoral authorities announced a statistical sample showing her with an irreversible lead. "This achievement is not mine alone. It belongs to all of us—our heroines who won us our homeland, our mothers, our daughters, and our granddaughters."

"We have demonstrated that Mexico is a democratic country with peaceful elections," she added.

The National Electoral Institute’s president stated that Sheinbaum had secured between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez had between 26.6% and 28.6%, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez had between 9.9% and 10.8%.

The preliminary count, which initially progressed slowly, showed Sheinbaum leading Gálvez by 27 points with 42% of polling place tallies counted shortly after her victory speech.

The governing party candidate campaigned on continuing the political direction set over the last six years by her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.