2015 Bolivian regional elections

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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]

Almost every elected office, but not Mayor, included a simultaneously elected alternate of the same party.

Results

Bolivia's ruling MAS party suffered some defeats and setbacks in the subnational elections.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Bolivia elige hoy 4.975 nuevas autoridades subnacionales". La Razón. 2015-03-29. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  2. ^ Cardozo G., Jesús (2010-03-29). "Los números y datos de las elecciones subnacionales". El País. Tarija, Bolivia. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
  3. ^ "A Vote for Local Democracy in Bolivia's Regional Elections". NACLA. Retrieved 12 July 2015.