FAQ: the Mexico 2027 political test
Answers to the most common questions about Afinidad Política and the 6 June 2027 election.
No one can tell you that, but you can check which party your views are closest to. In the test you answer 45 statements on the main issues and see your percentage of agreement with each of the 8 registered parties, issue by issue and with the reasoning behind each position. The result is not a voting recommendation: it is a starting point for reading the party profiles and the electoral platforms before 6 June 2027. If you still do not know who to vote for, this guide explains how to compare your views topic by topic.
We do not ask for your name, email or registration. We store your answers with a random identifier, together with the approximate state and city of your connection, your browser and a hash of your IP address made with a secret key, which cannot be used to recover the address and serves to prevent abuse. The hash, the browser and the city are deleted after 12 months; the state is kept for statistics. Your age and the party you would vote for are optional and never appear in the sharing link. The processing is therefore pseudonymous, not anonymous, and we prefer to be precise about it. Details are in our Privacy Notice.
We compare your answers with each party’s documented position: its election platform, its founding documents, the roll-call votes of its deputies in the Chamber of Deputies and its public statements. We analyze how closely you match across 12 topic categories and calculate a match percentage with each party.
On Sunday 6 June 2027 the 500 seats of the federal Chamber of Deputies are elected, for a three-year term: 300 by relative majority, one in each single-member district, and 200 by proportional representation, from the parties’ lists in five electoral regions (circunscripciones). To take part in the allocation of proportional seats a party needs at least 3% of the valid vote; no party can have more than 300 seats, nor a share of seats more than 8 points above its share of the vote, except through the districts it wins. The same day there are local elections in all 32 states, including 17 governorships. There is no judicial election in 2027: it was postponed to 2028. Polling stations (casillas) are open from 8:00 to 18:00, local time.
The eight national political parties registered with the National Electoral Institute (INE), each one separately: Morena, PAN, PRI, PVEM, PT, Movimiento Ciudadano, SOMOS and Partido PAZ. They are the only parties that can put forward candidates for the Chamber of Deputies throughout the country. SOMOS and PAZ obtained their registration on 1 July 2026 and are standing for the first time; until they register their election platforms, their positions are based on their founding documents and public statements, and we mark them as such. Every change to the list is recorded in the revision log on the methodology page.
Because on 6 June 2027 each of the 300 districts has its own candidates, and in addition 200 seats are allocated to the parties’ lists by proportional representation. A single vote does both things: the vote for a district candidate also counts for their party’s list. What all voters have in common is the parties: each one registers an election platform with the INE that its candidates must uphold, and each one appears on the ballot with its own emblem. That is why the test compares you with each party; to find out who is standing in your district, see the INE’s official information.
Parties can run together in a coalition and put forward the same candidates. Morena, PVEM and PT have announced that they will run together in 2027; the coalition agreements must be filed with the INE no later than thirty days before the pre-campaign period begins, which, according to the INE’s calendar, means early December 2026. Even in a coalition, each party appears on the ballot with its own emblem and the votes count for each party (General Law on Political Parties, Article 87.12). That is why the test compares you with each party separately and only shows coalitions as information. New parties cannot join a coalition until their first election is over (Article 85.4), so SOMOS and PAZ are running on their own.
Each party must register its election platform with the INE’s General Council within the first fifteen days of January of the election year (LGIPE, Article 236), that is, from 1 to 15 January 2027. Until then, the positions are based on each party’s founding documents, the votes of its deputies in the Chamber, its 2024 platform and its public statements. When the 2027 platforms are published we will review every position against them and record each change in the revision log on the methodology page.
From each party’s documents and votes: the election platform it registers with the INE for 2027 and, until then, its basic documents (its declaration of principles and its program of action), the roll-call votes of its deputies in the Chamber of Deputies (66th Legislature), its 2024 election platform and its public statements. We say which one we use next to each position. Each position has its justification shown in the party profiles and, where we have found the specific document, a link to the source. Positions we have inferred from a party’s overall stance, without a document that states them explicitly, are marked as estimated, so that you know what you are relying on.
The test has 45 questions covering the issues debated in Mexico ahead of the 2027 federal election. Depending on the mode you choose, it will take you between 7 and 10 minutes to complete.
It reflects the average distance between your answers and the party’s positions, not the percentage of questions on which you agree. Each question scores according to how far apart you are: an exact match gives the maximum score, being one point apart already drops it to 56% for that question, and being at opposite extremes gives zero. In addition, your firm answers carry more weight than neutral ones. It is explained in detail with a real example on the methodology page.
Currently all 8 parties have a position on all 45 questions; those not backed by an explicit document are marked as estimated. If a party were missing a position (when it is added or when a new question is added), it would not be made up: that question would be left out of its calculation, counting neither for nor against it. Each party’s profile shows how many of its positions are sourced and how many are estimated.
Yes, and it is the most useful message we can receive. We need the party, the specific question, the position you think it should have and the document that supports it (a page of its platform or founding documents, a roll-call vote with its date or a public statement). We check it against that source, correct it where appropriate and cite the document on the party’s profile. Full instructions are on the contact page.
No, this test is independent and neutral: it is not linked to any party, candidate or campaign, and none of them sponsors it, advertises on it or donates to it. We can prepare aggregated data reports on commission for any organization, including a party or a campaign, at the same price as for anyone else, but no commission changes the questions, any party’s position or how your result is calculated. The questions are worded neutrally, without mentioning specific parties. Our aim is to provide an educational tool for citizens.
Because its author has been running tests of the same kind since 2026, first for Spain and then for other countries, and applies the same method to Mexico. Being outside Mexican politics comes with one more rule: Article 33 of the Constitution bars foreign nationals from involvement in Mexico’s political affairs. That is why the website sticks to information: it never urges a vote for or against any party, runs no campaign and has no dealings with parties. Every position has its source so that you can check it, and the methodology is public.
Yes. It is free, needs no registration and never recommends a vote, so it works for civics in secondary school and social sciences in upper secondary school, including with students who will vote for the first time in 2027. the page for teachers has a lesson plan, discussion questions and an explanation of why it is neutral.
It is funded by Google advertising (AdSense) on some content pages and by aggregated data reports on commission for whoever asks, including parties or campaigns, at a price agreed depending on what is needed; the rest is paid by its author. No ad or commission changes how the test works. The rules are on the transparency page: ads never appear within the test, in your result, in shared results or in the comparison tool, they are not chosen based on your answers, and no advertising, sponsorship or donations are accepted from parties, candidates or campaigns.
No. Mexico’s electoral law (LGIPE, Article 251.5) requires anyone who publishes a poll or survey on electoral matters during the electoral process to submit the full study to the INE. The barometer is not one: it only shows how many of the people who took the test agree with each statement, by state, and it never publishes voting preferences, the declared vote or affinity with each party. The people in that data came to the site of their own accord: there is no representative sample, no quotas, no weighting and no calculable margin of error, so it cannot tell you what Mexico thinks or how people will vote. We only publish aggregates with a minimum of one hundred responses per cell, and, as a precaution, we take the barometer offline from 2 to 6 June 2027. You can see it in the barometer.
No. Afinidad Política is a personal, independent project, free and with no registration. It has no connection with any party, candidate, the Government, the INE or the local electoral bodies, and it is not an opinion poll. It helps you compare your views with the positions of the parties, but it does not tell you who to vote for. For official information on how, when and where to vote, see the INE website (ine.mx). We explain how we calculate the result on the methodology page.
All three questions are optional and include “Prefer not to say”. Your age and sex are used for aggregated statistics by group; your vote, to show you — and only you — where you agree and disagree with the party you would vote for and for internal statistics that are never published, not even added together. None of them is used to calculate your match, and your answer is never shown individually.
Not for the Chamber of Deputies. The law only allows Mexicans living abroad to vote for the President and the senators and, if the state’s law provides for it, for the governor or other local offices (LGIPE, Article 329). In 2027 there is no presidential or Senate election, so the vote from abroad is only for some local elections. If you live abroad, check on the INE website whether your state’s election is open to you and by when you must register. You can still take the test to find out which party is closest to your views.
Yes, the test is available in Spanish and English. You can change the language at any time using the selector on the page.
Because a political translation has to be faithful to every nuance of each party’s position, and we do not have native-speaker translators and reviewers for the Indigenous languages of Mexico. A poor translation would mislead the very people it was meant to help. Most speakers of these languages also speak Spanish, which is why the test is in Spanish, with an English version for the international press. For official information about the election in Indigenous languages, the INE publishes materials in several of them.
Yes, when you finish the test you get a unique link that you can share on social media or with friends. You can also use the comparison tool to see how politically compatible you are with other people.
The political compass is a visualization that places your ideological position on two axes: left–right (economic) and progressive–conservative (social). It lets you see graphically where you stand in relation to the parties.