2021 La Paz gubernatorial election

2021 La Paz gubernatorial election

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Governor, all 45 seats in the Legislative Assembly[a] 23 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	1,950,428[b]
Turnout	88.37% ( 0.13 pp)[c]
First party Second party   Candidate Santos Quispe Franklin Flores Leader Leopoldo Chui Evo Morales Party APU MAS-IPSP Alliance J.A.LLALLA.L.P. — Last election New party 25 seats, 30.68% Seats won 8 25 First round 392,132 618,221 Percentage 25.18% 39.70% Runoff 831,816 674,220 Percentage 55.23% 44.77%   Third party Fourth party   Candidate Rafael Quispe Félix Patzi Party SP MTS Alliance PBCSP[d] — Last election New alliance New party Seats won 5 1 First round 349,384 67,948 Percentage 22.44% 4.36% Runoff Eliminated Eliminated
First round municipal results First round provincial results Second round municipal results Second round provincial results
Governor before election Félix Patzi MTS Governor after election Santos Quispe APU

The 2021 La Paz gubernatorial election was held on Sunday, 7 March 2021, with a runoff taking place on 11 April 2021, involving separate contests for governor and all forty-five seats in the Departmental Legislative Assembly. Incumbent governor Félix Patzi unsuccessfully sought reelection to a second term, finishing in fourth place with 4.36 percent of the popular vote. The election was won by Jallalla La Paz's Santos Quispe, who attained 55.23 percent of the vote in the second round, defeating Franklin Flores of the Movement for Socialism. On the legislative ballot, the Movement for Socialism won sixteen of the twenty provincial circumscriptions and nine of the twenty party-list seats, retaining its twenty-five seat majority in the Legislative Assembly.

Originally scheduled to take place in early 2020, this and other subnational elections were delayed by over a year as a result of the country's 2019 political crisis and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The continued health crisis had a significant impact on the race, knocking out popular frontrunner Felipe Quispe and establishing a close contest between his son, Santos, and ruling party candidate Flores, trailed by Rafael Quispe, incumbent Patzi, and almost a dozen other candidates. Amid shifting demographics, this election was also noted for the fact that El Alto and the indigenous-majority provinces now held more electoral weight than the city of La Paz, a change reflected by the primarily indigenous identification of the candidates running.
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