Francisco Ricardo Sheffield Padilla

Francisco Ricardo Sheffield Padilla (born 30 October 1966) is a Mexican politician. Previously a member of the National Action Party (PAN), he is currently affiliated with the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). In the 2024 general election, he was elected to a six-year term in the Senate for the state of Guanajuato.

Life Ricardo Sheffield was born in León, Guanajuato, in 1966. A lawyer by profession, he holds a bachelor's degree from the Ibero-American University (1989), a master's from Harvard University (1991), and a doctorate from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (2020).

He has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies on two occasions: in the 2000 general election and in the 2015 mid-terms, both times representing Guanajuato's 3rd district for the PAN.

Sheffield broke with the PAN in 2018 when he failed to secure the party's nomination for that year's gubernatorial election in Guanajuato. He instead stood as the candidate of a Morena-led coalition but came second to the PAN's Diego Sinhué Rodríguez.

He was the lead candidate of the Morena-led Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition in Guanajuato's 2024 Senate election. With the coalition receiving 43.30% of the vote over the PAN's 39.39%, Sheffield secured the state's first Senate seat for the duration of the 66th and 67th sessions of Congress.