1958 Mexican general election

1958 Mexican general election

6 July 1958
Presidential election
 
Nominee Adolfo López Mateos Luis Héctor Álvarez Álvarez
Party PRI PAN
Popular vote 6,767,754 705,303
Percentage 90.44% 9.42%

President before election

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
PRI

Elected President

Adolfo López Mateos
PRI

General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1958. The presidential elections were won by Adolfo López Mateos, who received 90.4% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 153 of the 162 seats. These were the first Mexican presidential elections in which women were allowed to vote.