Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico’s first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest, the BBC reports.
The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City is projected to win 56% of the vote in Sunday’s election, convincingly beating her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez.
Preliminary results also give her a wide lead.
If the exit polls are confirmed, Ms Sheinbaum will replace her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on 1 October.