Ms Sheinbaum’s opponents called her to concede after statistical analysis showed she held an unassailable lead.
Mexico’s projected presidential election winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first woman President in the country’s 200-year history.
The climate scientist and former Mexico City mayor said her two competitors had called her to concede. Mexico’s National Electoral Institute said Ms Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a statistical sample. Opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez had between 26.6% and 28.6% of the vote while Jorge Alvarez Maynez had between 9.9% and 10.8%.The governing party candidate campaigned on continuing the political course set over the last six years by her political mentor, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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