Mexico's judicial election turnout likely around 13%, electoral authority says
Counting is set to conclude on June 15, but INE officials estimated the turnout using a calculation based on several samples across the country.
Mexicans had a day earlier voted in the country's first ever judicial elections to elect 2,600 judges and magistrates, including all Supreme Court justices, but pollsters had warned of poor turnout over boycott calls by the opposition and the complexity of voting for a large number of candidates.
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