 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (October 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 88.42% ( 0.11pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Presidential election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Results by department (left) and municipality (right) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 36 seats in the Chamber of Senators All 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg)
 |
|---|
 Bolivia portal |
General elections were held in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 for President, Vice-President, and all seats in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.[1] Luis Arce of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected president in a landslide,[2][3][4] winning 55% of the vote and securing majorities in both chambers of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly. The results of the election superseded the disputed results of the October 2019 elections, which were annulled during a prolonged political crisis.
Although the winning party received a higher proportion of the vote in 2020 than in the previous annulled elections, for the first time since 2009 the winning party did not have a two-thirds majority in the Legislative Assembly, meaning that some functions would require cross-party support.[5] For the first time, the Senate will contain a majority of female senators.[6] Electoral authorities had initially scheduled the elections for 3 May 2020.[7] They were postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,[8] first to 6 September 2020 and then to 18 October 2020. The latter date was ratified by a 13 August 2020 law following protests and blockades against the previous postponements.[9]
The parties or alliances contesting the election were the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP), which governed before 2019, Civic Community (CC), the newly formed Creemos (Let's create, We believe) alliance, the Front for Victory, and the National Action Party (PAN-BOL). Presidential candidates Carlos Mesa (CC) and Chi Hyun Chung (FPV) were the second and third-place finishers, respectively, in the annulled 2019 presidential election. Luis Arce was the MAS candidate, replacing former MAS president Evo Morales. Feliciano Mamani replaced Ruth Nina as candidate for PAN-BOL. Interim president Jeanine Áñez, former president Jorge Quiroga, and María de la Cruz Bayá all launched presidential candidacies, but withdrew before the election was held.
The official count took several days to complete. Independent quick-counts of the vote conducted by polling firms Ciesmori and Mi Voto Cuenta (My Vote Counts) on the morning of 19 October both indicated that Arce had won a majority of the vote, enough to win the election outright without requiring a runoff round.[10][11] Interim President Áñez confirmed this on Twitter shortly after,[12] and runner-up Mesa and former president Quiroga both indicated their acceptance of the preliminary results later that day.[13][14] Official observers from the UN, UNIORE, and the OAS all stated that there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.[15]
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
- ^ "Bolivia election delayed to October as pandemic bites, opposition cries foul". Reuters. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Official Bolivia Vote Count Confirms Socialist Landslide". Bloomberg.com. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ "Bolivia's Landslide Lays to Rest the Fears of Fraud". Crisis Group. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ "Don't mess up Bolivia's miracle". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ "The MAS did not reach 2/3 in two of the last four elections" (in Spanish). 25 October 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
femalemajoritywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Para mayo las nuevas elecciones en Bolivia". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in European Spanish). 3 January 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ "Electoral court postpones Bolivia general election over virus". Outlook (India). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ "Una ley fija el 18 de octubre como fecha tope para las elecciones en Bolivia". ABC (in Spanish). 14 August 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Bolivia's socialists claim victory as unofficial count shows big win". Reuters. 19 October 2020. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Arce wins with more than 50% according to quick count of two firms" (in Spanish). 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Jeanine Anez on Twitter". 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Tuto to Arce: 'I wish you success, given the enormous economic challenge that lies ahead'" (in Spanish). 19 October 2020.
- ^ "Carlos Mesa: We are the head of the opposition and we will act as such" (in Spanish). 18 October 2020. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
nofraudewas invoked but never defined (see the help page).