1989 Bolivian general election

1989 Bolivian general election
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Registered2,137,285
Turnout73.64%
Presidential election
 
Nominee Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Hugo Banzer Jaime Paz Zamora
Party MNR ADN MIR
Running mate Wálter Guevara Luis Ossio Gustavo Fernández Saavedra
Popular vote 363,113 357,298 309,033
Percentage 25.65% 25.24% 21.83%
 
Nominee Carlos Palenque Antonio Araníbar Quiroga
Party CONDEPA IU
Running mate Jorge Escobari Cusicanqui Wálter Delgadillo Terceros
Popular vote 173,459 113,509
Percentage 12.25% 8.02%
Results by department (left) and province (right)
President before election

Víctor Paz Estenssoro
MNR

Elected President

Jaime Paz Zamora
MIR

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General elections were held in Bolivia on 7 May 1989.[1] As no candidate for the presidency received over 50% of the vote, the National Congress was required to elect a president on 6 August. Although the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement had received the most votes, its candidate for President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was defeated by Jaime Paz Zamora of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) in the congressional vote, despite the MIR only finishing third in the public vote.[2]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p133 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ^ Nohlen, p158