The Influence of Mexican Voters Abroad on Presidential Elections
Mexican-American voters in the US, numbering 1.5 million, hold potential sway over Mexico's 2024 presidential election. Xavier Medina Vidal highlights their evolving influence, while stressing the need for nuanced understanding and political engagement.
For the vote of Mexicans who registered in the United States to vote in Mexico's next presidential election to be decisive, approximately 500,000 people would have to participate, of the million and a half who have a voter ID card, estimated Xavier Medina Vidal, head of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.
In the United States, 226,661 potential voters were registered, according to data from the National Electoral Institute, he noted at the conference “The Mexican vote in the United States: its weight in the elections of both countries in 2024”, convened by the Center for Research on America of the North (CISAN).
