Quintana Roo Congress Ranks Among Mexico’s Least Transparent

Cancún, Quintana Roo — Quintana Roo’s state Congress ranks among the least transparent legislatures in Mexico, scoring 38.9% in a 2026 evaluation by CIMTRA (Citizens for Transparent Municipalities), a result rated as low and placing it 13th among the 32 state congresses assessed.

The survey also exposed sharp differences across the three states of the Yucatan Peninsula. Yucatán’s Congress scored 58.7%, ranking eighth nationally and landing in the medium tier, while Quintana Roo fell below half of the indicators evaluated. Campeche recorded the region’s weakest result, with just 28.7%, ranking 25th and falling in the low tier.

Wide Gap With the National Average

The regional contrast is even starker against the national average of 43.4%. Quintana Roo finished 4.5 percentage points below the national mean, while Campeche came in 14.7 points below it. Yucatán, by contrast, beat the national average by 15.3 points, though it still fell short of the high tier set by CIMTRA.

The evaluation also revealed a broad decline in legislative transparency. The national average rose from 40.9% in 2020 to 46.5% in 2022 before dropping to 43.4% in 2026.

Of the 32 congresses analyzed, only seven topped 60%, and eight exceeded 55% — the minimum CIMTRA says legislatures should reach if they comply with all of their legal transparency obligations.

Chihuahua led the rankings with 93.8%, followed by Guanajuato at 86.8% and Jalisco at 76.7%. Baja California, Sinaloa and the State of Mexico also surpassed 70%, while Oaxaca scored 66.2%.

At the bottom, Querétaro and Baja California Sur were the only two congresses placed in the critical tier, with 18.7% and 16.8% respectively.

How the Rankings Are Built

CIMTRA said its Cimtra-Legislativo tool combines proactive transparency indicators, which account for 45% of the score, with legally mandated transparency indicators, which make up the remaining 55%. Under that methodology, Quintana Roo’s and Campeche’s results show that their congresses scored even below the threshold tied to compliance with their legal obligations.

The organization warned that the drop in the national average poses a risk to accountability and called for stronger citizen oversight and proactive transparency. The evaluation was conducted between April and June 2026 using information available as of March 31 of this year.

The peninsula comparison leaves Yucatán as the best-positioned of the three states, though still in the medium tier, with Quintana Roo lower down the national table and Campeche among the congresses with the weakest results.