President Claudia Sheinbaum has an approval rating above 70% at the end of her first year in office, according to the results of two polls.

Sheinbaum, who was sworn in as Mexico’s first female president on Oct. 1, 2024, is thus significantly more popular than her five most recent predecessors were at the completion of their first year as president.

The newspaper El Financiero polled 1,000 Mexican adults by telephone in September, 73% of whom said they approved of Sheinbaum’s work as president.

A much larger online poll of more than 62,000 people conducted by Mitofsky for the newspaper El Economista this month detected a slightly lower 71.6% approval rating for the president.

Both polls found that close to three in ten people disapproved of Sheinbaum’s performance as president.

Women more likely to support Sheinbaum than men

The Mitofsky/El Economista poll found that 74.1% of women supported Sheinbaum, whereas 69% of men approved of the president’s performance.

The poll also found that young Mexicans were more likely to support the president than older people.