Opposition candidate claims victory in Mexico Presidential Elections
Enrique Peña Nieto, a candidate from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is leading in Sunday's presidential election in Mexico, exit polls showed later the same day.
Pena Nieto, 45, is said to have between 37.9 and 38.55 per cent of the vote. His leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has between 30.9 and 31.86 per cent of the vote. Josefina Vazquez Mota from the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN) is third with 25-26 percent.
Incumbent President Felipe Calderon, who has been in power since 2006, is barred by the constitution from seeking a second term.
Nearly 80 million Mexicans were eligible to cast ballots in Sunday's vote.
Some 31,400 monitors, including around 700 international observers from 66 countries, monitored the polls.
Mexicans also elected Mexico City's mayor, governors of six of Mexico's 31 states, parliament deputies and heads of municipal entities.
