The polling stations for the election of the judiciary in Mexico opened this Sunday in most of the country at 8:00 local time (14:00 GMT) with citizens already in the ranks that for the first time in the history of the country will elect judges and magistrates.

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For the first time in its history, Mexico will elect by popular vote 881 judges and magistrates from among 3,422 candidates for the judiciary at both the federal and local levels.

For her part, the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum went to vote this Sunday in the elections to elect magistrates and judges in the historic elections to choose by popular vote the members of the judiciary, driven by the federal government.

Sheinbaum votes on an unprecedented fact, since for the first time almost 100 million Mexicans will be able to directly elect 881 public positions in the federal judiciary, thanks to the reform promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), approved in 2024.

Around 23:00 local time (05:00 GMT on Monday), the INE will publish the results of the citizen participation and, due to the complexity of the election, the result of the final counting of the votes will be announced until 15 June.

The process provides that the positions of judges, magistrates and ministers of the Supreme Court are defined by popular vote, among 881 federal judicial offices. On the day, Mexican citizens will receive six ballots for the federal election of the judiciary, in addition to state ballots in 19 states that will also renew their local judges.

Ballots shall have the following colors to identify the vote: address for the election of the Supreme Court, blue for the upper chamber of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF), turquoise for the Court of Judicial Discipline, Orange for TEPJF regional chambers, pink for magistrates and yellow for judges.

For the Supreme Court, the electorate will select five women and four men from a list of 84 candidates, while for the new Court of Judicial Discipline, citizens will decide on three women and two men from a list of 52 candidates.

Unlike other elections, this time the polling station officials will not be responsible for counting votes but will only sort and count the number of ballots for each election, How many were used and how many citizens participated, and it will be the District Councils that will carry out the counting and counting by candidacy.

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