Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as firstwoman president | BBC News

Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico's firstwoman president in an historic landslide win.

Mexico's official electoral authority said preliminaryresults showed the 61-year-old former mayor ofMexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday's election.

That gives her a lead of about 30 percentage pointsover her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez.

Ms Sheinbaum will replace her mentor, outgoingPresident Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on 1 October.