Elections in Mexico: the only two states in Mexico that did not vote for López Obrador

It was a resounding victory and not only because of the number of votes obtained.

Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won Sunday presidential elections in Mexico, getting about 53% support, according to preliminary official results.

But, he went further.

The candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition won in 30 of the 31 states plus Mexico City, including the northern states of the country in which he had never had support before.

In 1 3 states AMLO registers more than 60% of votes starting with Tabasco, his native state where he obtained 81.84%.

In the capital, Mexico City, where The mayor was 56.66%

* Source: National Electoral Institute

The final figures will be confirmed Wednesday, when the l. The electoral authority will present the final results in their entirety.

Amid the overwhelming victory, there were two states in which the new president of Mexico did not have the best reception: Nuevo León and Guanajuato where López Obrador achieved his worst results (33.15% and 30.55%, respectively). ] Seedbed

These numbers are not entirely surprising.

Guanajuato is a conservative majority state that has always been considered a bastion of the National Action Party (PAN) right

López Obrador was the most popular candidate voted in 29 states and Mexico. / Getty Images

He is considered the home of PAN votes for more than two decades, when Vicente Fox became his governor in 1995 and then became president in 2000.

Since then, all regional leaders of Guanajuato was PAN.

In the case of Nuevo León, it is also considered a conservative state – although more favorable to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) – but which has changed recently.

In fact, the current governor, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, known as "El Bronco", was the first unaffiliated candidate to become governor of a state in Mexico.

"El Bronco" is also presented as a candidate for these presidential elections, but has barely exceeded 5% of the votes.

"El Bronco", Jaime Rodriguez Calderon, was the first independent to govern a state in Mexico. / Getty Images

If you compare the votes obtained by López Obrador in these two states in this year's elections with those obtained in the 2012 presidential elections, there is a marginal setback in Guanajuato, where he previously won 30, 96% and now 30.55%.

AMLO achieved notable but insufficient progress in Nuevo León, where it went from 26.93% to 33.15% to the point that – according to the Preliminary Results – is located just below 2000 votes of the presidential candidate PAN, Ricardo Anaya Cortés.

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