2018 MEXICO POLITICAL AND HOLIDAY CALENDAR
(Boldface red national obligatory holidays • elections shaded yellow)
JANUARY
1
New Year’s Day
6
Epiphany (Día de los Reyes Magos)
FEBRUARY
1 Second period, Third year, Ordinary Session of the LXIII Congress
begins
5 Anniversary of Constitution of 1917
10
Air Force Day
19 Army Day
24 Flag Day
MARCH
4 89th
Anniversary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
18 Anniversary of the Expropriation of the
Oil Industry
19 Anniversary of the Birth of Benito Juárez (observed; actual date Mar. 21)
29 Holy Thursday
30 Good Friday
30 Federal Election Campaigning period begins
APRIL
1
Easter Sunday
30 Day of the Child
30 Second period, Third
year, Ordinary Session of the LXIII Congress ends
MAY
1 Labor Day
5 Anniversary
of the Battle of Puebla (Cinco de Mayo)
5 29th Anniversary of the Party of the Democratic
Revolution (PRD)
10 Mother’s Day
14 23rd Anniversary of the Mexico Ecologist Green Party (PVEM)
15 Teacher’s Day
JUNE
1
Navy Day
17 Father’s Day
27 Federal Election Campaigning period ends
JULY
1 Federal elections for President, the Senate [128 members] and the LXI Chamber of Deputies [500 members]
1 Aguascalientes
– election for state legislature
1 Baja California Sur – elections for state legislature and 5 municipal presidents
1 Campeche – elections for state legislature, 11 municipal presidents and 24 municipal juntas
1
Coahuila – elections for 38 municipal presidents
1 Colima – elections for state legislature and 10 municipal presidents
1 Chiapas – elections for governor, state legislature and 122 municipal presidents
1 Chihuahua – elections for state legislature and 67 municipal presidents
1 Mexico City – elections
for chief of government, legislative assembly and 16 delegation chiefs
1 Durando – election for state legislature
1
Guanajuato – elections for governor, state legislature and 46 municipal
presidents
1
Guerrero – elections for state legislature and 80 municipal presidents
1 Hidalgo –
election for state legislature
1 Jalisco – elections for governor, state legislature and 125 municipal presidents
1 México (State of México) – elections for state legislature and 125 municipal presidents
1 Michoacán – elections for state legislature and 112 municipal presidents
1 Morelos – elections for governor, state legislature and 33 municipal presidents
1 Nuevo León – elections for state legislature and 51 municipal presidents
1 Oaxaca – elections
for state legislature and 153 municipal presidents
1
Puebla – elections for governor, state legislature and 217 municipal presidents
1 Querétaro
– elections for state legislature and 18 municipal presidents
1 Quintana Roo –
elections for 11 municipal presidents
1 San Luis Potosí – elections for state legislature and 58 municipal presidents
1 Sinaloa – elections for state legislature and 18 municipal presidents
1 Sonora – elections
for state legislature and 72 municipal presidents
1
Tabasco – elections for governor, state legislature and 17 municipal presidents
1 Tamaulipas –
elections for 43 municipal presidents
1 Tlaxcala – election for state legislature
1
Veracruz – elections for governor and state legislature
1 Yucatán
– elections for governor, state legislature and 106 municipal presidents
1 Zacatecas –
elections for state legislature and 58 municipal presidents
Note: No elections for state office are scheduled in Baja California and Nayarit
9 4th
Anniversary of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
20 Birthday of President Enrique Peña Nieto
AUGUST
1 19th Anniversary
of the Convergence Party
SEPTEMBER
1
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s State of the Nation Presentation (“Informe”)
1
First period, First year, Ordinary Session of the LXIV Congress begins
15 Commemoration
of the Cry for Independence (11:00 p.m.)
16 Independence Day
16
79th Anniversary of the National Action Party (PAN)
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
1 All Saints' Day
2
All Souls' Day (Day of the Dead)
19 Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution (observed;
actual date Nov. 20)
DECEMBER
1
Inauguration of the Incoming President of Mexico (2018-2024)
8 27th
Anniversary of the Mexican Labor Party (PT)
12 Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
15 First period,
First year, Ordinary Session of the LXIV Congress ends
25 Christmas Day