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The 2015 Bolivian regional elections were held on 29 March 2015. Departmental and municipal authorities were elected by an electorate of approximately 6 million people.
Among the officials elected were:
- Governors of all nine departments
- Members of Departamental Legislative Assemblies in each department; 23 seats in these Assemblies will represent indigenous communities, and have been selected by traditional usos y costumbres in the weeks prior to the election
- Mayors and Council members in all 339 municipalities[1]
- Provincial Subgovernors and Municipal Corregidors (executive authorities) in Beni
- Sectional Development Executives at the provincial level in Tarija
- The nine members of the Regional Assembly in the autonomous region of Gran Chaco[2]
Altogether, 2,642 officials were elected.[3] Almost every elected office, but not Mayor, included a simultaneously elected alternate of the same party.
- ^ "Bolivia elige hoy 4.975 nuevas autoridades subnacionales". La Razón. 2015-03-29. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ Cardozo G., Jesús (2010-03-29). "Los números y datos de las elecciones subnacionales". El País. Tarija, Bolivia. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ Órgano Electoral Plurinacional (2016). Informe de labores, rendición de cuentas: Gestión 2015 y desafios para la gestión 2016.