Descriptive political representation of Mexico’s indigenous population is abysmal, suggesting that voters may spurn indigenous candidates at the ballot box. Yet recent signs of societal acceptance of indigenous candidacies and politicians also exist, implying that descriptive under-representation may owe to other causes. At present, Mexican voters’ perceptions of indigenous political candidates remains unknown. We report the results of a candidate-choice experiment conducted during the 2024 general election campaigns on a sample of Mexican citizens. We find no evidence in these hypothetical elections of discrimination against indigenous candidates. To the contrary, our respondents were about 5 percentage points more likely to select indigenous candidates, and they saw indigenous candidates as more competent and more honest than nonindigenous ones. To be sure, the effects are sensitive to the political stakes of the hypothetical elections, smaller in inter-party races (~3 points) than in intra-party races (~10 points) and driven in the former by nonpartisans. But we arrive at the tentative and optimistic conclusion that Mexico’s parties would be well-advised to nominate more candidates of indigenous heritage.