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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.

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Presidential election
17 August 2025 (first round)
19 October 2025 (second round)
Turnout86.95% (first round) 11px 1.47pp
85.32% (second round) 11px 1.63pp
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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%
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President before election

Luis Arce
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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
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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.[1]

About 7.9 million people were able to vote in the 2025 election.[2]

Opinion polls

Runoff

Polling firm Fieldwork date Sample size 70x70px 70x70px Blank vote Void vote Undecided
Quiroga
Libre 		Paz
PDC
Ipsos CIESMORI/UNITEL[3] 6–9 Oct 2,500 44.9 36.5 3.7 5.6 9.3
Captura Consulting/Red Uno[4][5] 3–7 Oct 2,560 42.9 38.7 2.6 5.8 10.0
CB Consultora Opinión Pública[6] 1–6 Oct 1,028 44.4 36.2 12.1 7.3
Ipsos CIESMORI/UNITEL[7][8] 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
Local regression of polls conducted for the first round

2025 Bolivian General Election Media

  • Andrónico Rodríguez (cropped).jpg

    Andrónico Rodríguez (cropped)

  • Pavel Aracena Vargas en julio de 2025

  • Manfred Reyes Villa (cropped).jpg

    Manfred Reyes Villa (cropped)

  • Jhonny Fernández (cropped).jpg

    Jhonny Fernández (cropped)

  • Eduardo Del Castillo (cropped).png

    Eduardo Del Castillo (cropped)

References

  1. ↑ DeBre, Isabel (18 August 2025). "Bolivia heads to a presidential runoff as 2 decades of left-wing dominance ends". AP News. https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-elections-right-wing-274e22ad9f493f60669a01615d3fef65. Retrieved 18 August 2025. 
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