2025 Bolivian general election

General elections were held in Bolivia on 17 August 2025 to elect the president, vice president, and all members of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly.

Presidential election
17 August 2025 (first round) 19 October 2025 (second round)
Turnout	86.95% (first round) 1.47pp 85.32% (second round) 1.63pp
Nominee Rodrigo Paz Jorge Quiroga Party PDC Independent Alliance — Libre (Bolivia) Running mate Edmand Lara Juan Pablo Velasco Popular vote 3,519,534 2,884,661 Percentage 54.96% 45.04%
President before election Luis Arce Elected President Rodrigo Paz PDC
Chamber of Deputies
17 August 2025
All 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 66 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats ± PDC 49 Libre (Bolivia) 39 Unity 26 8 APB Súmate 5 2 BIA-YUQUI 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Current president Luis Arce decided not to run for reelection. No candidate won a majority in the presidential election, leading to a runoff on 19 October 2025 between Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) and former president Jorge Quiroga of Libre.

Paz Pereira won with 54.6% of the vote, marking the first time in Bolivian history that a president was elected in a run-off election.

About 7.9 million people were able to vote in the 2025 election.

Runoff

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size			Blank vote	Void vote	Undecided
			Quiroga Libre	Paz PDC
Ipsos CIESMORI/UNITEL	6–9 Oct	2,500	44.9	36.5	3.7	5.6	9.3
Captura Consulting/Red Uno	3–7 Oct	2,560	42.9	38.7	2.6	5.8	10.0
CB Consultora Opinión Pública	1–6 Oct	1,028	44.4	36.2	12.1		7.3
Ipsos CIESMORI/UNITEL	18–21 Sep	2,500	47.0	39.3	3.5	4.7	5.5

First round

Local regression of polls conducted for the first round

2025 Bolivian General Election Media

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  Andrónico Rodríguez (cropped)

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  Pavel Aracena Vargas en julio de 2025

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  Manfred Reyes Villa (cropped)

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  Jhonny Fernández (cropped)

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  Eduardo Del Castillo (cropped)