Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

 held a general election on 14 July 1985, electing both a new President of the Republic

President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia is head of state and head of government of Bolivia. According to the current Constitution, the president is elected by popular vote to a five year term, renewable once...

 and a new National Congress

National Congress of Bolivia

The Plurinational Legislative Assembly also known as the National Congress is the national legislature of Bolivia, based in the nation's de facto capital, La Paz....

.

Presidential election results

Presidential candidates	Party	Candidates for Vice President	Party	Party/Alliance	Votes	%
Hugo Banzer Suárez	ADN	Eudoro Galindo	ADN	ADN	493,735	32.83%
Víctor Paz Estenssoro Víctor Paz Estenssoro Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and president of Bolivia. He ran for president 8 times , winning in 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985....	MNR	Julio Garret Ayllón	MNR	MNR, PCML, MNRI-Siglo XX, UDC	456,704	30.36%
Jaime Paz Zamora Jaime Paz Zamora Jaime Paz Zamora was President of Bolivia from August 6, 1989 to August 6, 1993. He also served as Vice-President between 1982 and 1984.-Foundation of the MIR and alliance with Siles Zuazo:...	MIR	Oscar Eid Franco	MIR	MIR	153,143	10.18%
Roberto Jordán Pando	MNRI	Marcelo Velarde Ortíz	MNRI	MNRI	82,418	05.48%
Carlos Serrate Reich	MNR-V	Zenón Barrientos Mamani	MNR-V	MNR-V	72,197	04.80%
Ramiro Velasco Romero	PS-1	Walter Vásquez Michel	PS-1	PS-1	38,786	02.58%
Antonio Aranibar Quiroga	MIR-BL	Oscar Salas Moya Óscar Salas Moya Óscar Salas Moya is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist. A miner by profession, Salas Moya was a key leader of the Communist Party of Bolivia and a leader of the Huanuni miners union...	PCB	FPU	38,124	02.53%
Jenaro Flores Santos Jenaro Flores Santos Jenaro Flores Santos is a Bolivian trade union leader and politician.Flores Santos was the founder of the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, or CSUTCB...	MRTKL	Filemón Escóbar Escóbar	POR-U	MRTKL, POR-U	31,678	02.11%
Luís Ossio Sanjines Luis Ossio Luis Ossio Sanjinés served as Vice President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993, during the presidency of Jaime Paz Zamora. He belonged to the Christian Democratic Party of Bolivia.-References:...	PDC	Jaime Ponce García	PDC	PDC	24,079	01.60%
David Añez Pedraza	FSB	José Luis Gutiérrez Sardán	FSB	FSB	19,985	01.33%
Macabeo Chila Prieto	MRTK	Hermógenes BazualdoGarcía	MRTK	MRTK	16,269	01.08%
Guillermo Lora Guillermo Lora Guillermo Lora was a Trotskyist leader in Bolivia. Lora was active in the Revolutionary Workers' Party from the early 1940s and was its best known leader....	POR	Ascencio Cruz Cruz	POR	POR	13,712	00.91%
Raúl Catacora Córdova	ACP	Guido Capurata Mamani	ACP	ACP	12,918	00.86%
Francisco Figueroa Francisco Figueroa Francisco Figueroa is a professional boxer from the Orlando,FL, USA.Francisco Figueroa, whose nickname is "El Gato", has been featured numerous times on ESPN2 and HBO fights. On August 17, 2005 he defeated Hector Alejandro, Jr for the New York State Light Welterweight Championship...	MNRI-1	Marcos Chuquimia	MNRI-1	MNRI-1	11,696	00.78%
Isaac Sandóval Rodríguez	IU	Luis Katari Ticona	IU	IU	10,892	00.72%
Luís Fernando Mostajo Cavero	FNP	Delfín Berdeja Taboada	FNP	FNP	9,635	00.64%
Juan Santa Cruz	AUR	Adolfo Murillo Blanco	AUR	AUR	9,420	00.63%
Humberto Cayoja Riart	ARENA	Antonio Chiquie Dippo	ARENA	ARENA	8,665	00.58%
Valid votes					1,504,056	100.0%
Invalid votes					224,309
Votes cast					1,728,363
Registered voters					2,108,458
Population					6,380,973

Congressional confirmation (August, 4 1985)

Presidential candidates	Parties	Votes
Víctor Paz Estenssoro Víctor Paz Estenssoro Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and president of Bolivia. He ran for president 8 times , winning in 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985....  (MNR)	MNR, MIR, MNRI, MNR-V, PDC, MRTKL	94
Hugo Banzer Suárez Hugo Banzer Hugo Banzer Suárez was a politician, military general, dictator and President of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a dictator; and then again from August 6, 1997 to August 7, 2001, as constitutional President.-Military and ideological...  (ADN)	ADN	51
Not voting	PS-1, FSB, FPU	12
Total		157

ADN – Nationalist Democratic Action

Nationalist Democratic Action

Nationalist Democratic Action is a right-wing political party in Bolivia led by Jorge Quiroga. ADN was founded on March 23, 1979 by the military dictator Hugo Banzer after he stepped down from power. It later expanded to include the Revolutionary Left Party and a faction of the Bolivian Socialist...

MNR – Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

PCML – Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist)

MNRI-Siglo XX – Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement - 20th Century

Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement - 20th Century

The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement - 20th Century was a political party in Bolivia. MNRI-Siglo XX was founded in August 1984, after a fraction of technocrats broke away from Hernán Siles Zuazo's ruling Revolutionary Nationalist Leftwing Movement . The main leader of MNRI-Siglo XX was...

UDC – Christian Democratic Union

Christian Democratic Union (Bolivia)

The Christian Democratic Union was a right-wing Christian-democratic political party in Bolivia....

MIR – Revolutionary Left Movement

Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)

The Revolutionary Left Movement - New Majority is a social democratic political party in Bolivia...

MNRI – Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left

MNR-V – Revolutionary Nationalist Movement-Vanguard

PS-1 – Socialist Party-One

Socialist Party (Bolivia, 1971)

The Socialist Party was a left-wing political party in Bolivia.This Socialist Party was established on 1 May 1971 by the merger of three small parties supporting the former military Co-President and the President General Alfredo...

FPU – United People's Front (Frente del Pueblo Unido). Electoral alliance formed by

Movement of the Revolutionary Left-Free Bolivia

Free Bolivia Movement

The Free Bolivia Movement is a progressive political party in Bolivia. The party was formed on January 15, 1985, following a split in MIR...

, MIR-BL;

Communist Party of Bolivia

Communist Party of Bolivia

The Communist Party of Bolivia is a communist party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1950 by Raúl Ruiz González and other former members of the Revolutionary Left Party . It remained small and did not hold its first national party congress until 1959....

, PCB;

Movement of the Revolutionary Left-Masses MIR-M,

Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left

Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left

The Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left was a left-wing political party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1963 by the labor leader Juan Lechín Oquendo and by Mario Torres Calleja and Edwin Moller in lesser roles...

, PRIN.

MRTKL – Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari

Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari

The Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari is a left-wing political party in Bolivia....

POR-U – Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified

Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified

The Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified was a small Trotskyist political party formed in Bolivia in 1984 by the merging of the Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle and the Workers' Vanguard Party .In 1985 POR-U allied with the Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari and its candidate...

PDC – Christian Democratic Party

Christian Democratic Party (Bolivia)

The Christian Democratic Party is a progressive Christian-democratic political party in Bolivia....

FSB – Bolivian Socialist Falange

Bolivian Socialist Falange

The Bolivian Socialist Falange was a Bolivian political party established in the year 1937. A right-wing party drawing inspiration from fascism, it was the country's second-largest party between approximately 1954 and 1974...

MRTK – Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement

Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement

The Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement is a left-wing political party in Bolivia....

POR – Revolutionary Workers' Party

Revolutionary Workers' Party (Bolivia)

The Revolutionary Workers' Party is a Trotskyist political party in Bolivia. At its height in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the POR was one of the few Trotskyist parties in history to gain a mass working-class following.-Beginnings:...

ACP – Popular Civic Action

MNRI-1 – Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left-One

IU – United left

United Left (Bolivia, 1985)

The United Left was a political coalition in Bolivia, launched ahead of the 1985 presidential election. IU was founded on February 22, 1985, by Isaac Sandoval Rodríguez, Federico Hurtado and Pedro Monteciño...

 (Izquierda Unida). Electoral alliance formed by

Patriotic National Convergency Axis (Eje de Convergencia), Eje de C;

Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist

Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist

The Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist was a small Trotskyist political party in Bolivia....

, POR-TP.

FNP – Progressive National Force

AUR – Revolutionary Humanist Action

ARENA – National Renewal Alliance

Results by Department

Candidates / Department	Chuquisaca Chuquisaca Department Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...		La Paz		Cochabamba Cochabamba Department Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...		Santa Cruz		Potosi Potosí Department Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....		Oruro Oruro Department Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km². Its capital is the city of Oruro. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 391,870.- Provinces of Oruro :...		Tarija Tarija Department Tarija is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering Argentina to the south and Paraguay to the east. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 391,226 inhabitants. It has an area of 37.623 km²...		Béni Beni Department Beni, sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second largest department in the country , covering 213,564 square kilometers , and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842 during the administration of General José...		Pando Pando Department Pando is a department of Bolivia, with an area of , adjoining the border with Brazil. Pando has a population 66,689 . Its capital is the city of Cobija....
Jaime Paz Zamora Jaime Paz Zamora Jaime Paz Zamora was President of Bolivia from August 6, 1989 to August 6, 1993. He also served as Vice-President between 1982 and 1984.-Foundation of the MIR and alliance with Siles Zuazo:...	18,426	22.12	47,025	09.12	26,515	11.50	15,556	05.52	25,591	15.19	12,170	12.06	4,512	06.65	3,160	06.30	368	04.43
Genaro Flores Santos	1,103	01.33	20,087	03.90	2,518	01.10	1,080	00.38	3,929	02.34	2,052	02.04	792	01.17	115	00.21	32	00.20
Raúl Catacora Córdova	905	01.09	5,484	01.07	2,987	01.30	596	00.22	1978	01.18	690	00.69	199	00.30	71	00.15	8	00.10
Macabeo Chila Prieto	1,449	01.74	6,153	01.20	3,360	01.44	866	00.31	2,854	01.70	1,167	01.16	311	00.46	96	00.20	13	00.16
Juan Santa Cruz	808	00.97	3,999	00.71	1,728	00.75	469	00.17	1,650	00.98	503	00.50	200	00.30	60	00.12	3	00.04
Carlos Serrate Reich	2,116	02.54	53,580	10.39	4,372	01.90	3,005	01.08	5,297	03.15	2,358	02.34	1,089	01.61	339	00.68	41	00.50
Isaac Sandóval Rodríguez	661	00.80	4,933	00.96	1,323	00.58	1,598	00.58	1,382	00.82	519	00.52	286	00.43	171	00.35	19	00.23
Roberto Jordán Pando	4,960	05.96	33,650	06.53	9,433	04.10	9,308	03.34	10,322	06.13	10,529	10.43	2,898	04.27	981	01.97	337	04.07
Humberto Cayoja Riart	582	00.70	3,141	00.61	1,277	00.56	553	00.20	875	00.52	1,969	01.95	162	00.24	100	00.20	6	00.08
David Añez Pedraza	915	01.10	3,677	00.72	1,966	00.86	6,526	02.34	1,658	00.99	791	00.79	500	00.74	3,448	06.92	504	06.08
Víctor Paz Estenssoro Víctor Paz Estenssoro Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and president of Bolivia. He ran for president 8 times , winning in 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985....	21,148	25.39	100,962	19.58	71,397	31.01	119,388	42.78	55,707	33.06	29,136	28.86	35,858	52.82	19,294	38.71	3,814	45.97
Guillermo Lora Guillermo Lora Guillermo Lora was a Trotskyist leader in Bolivia. Lora was active in the Revolutionary Workers' Party from the early 1940s and was its best known leader....	1,098	01.32	6,077	01.18	1,950	00.85	957	00.35	1,938	01.15	1,031	01.03	461	00.68	171	00.35	29	00.35
Antonio Aranibar Quiroga	5,500	06.61	8,368	01.63	5,171	02.25	4,356	01.56	8,333	04.95	2,152	02.14	2,222	03.28	1,855	03.73	167	02.02
Luís Ossio Sanjines Luis Ossio Luis Ossio Sanjinés served as Vice President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993, during the presidency of Jaime Paz Zamora. He belonged to the Christian Democratic Party of Bolivia.-References:...	1,605	01.93	6,963	01.35	6,229	02.71	1,726	00.62	4,478	02.66	1,899	01.88	540	00.80	532	01.07	107	01.29
Luís Fernando Mostajo Cavero	750	00.90	4,000	00.78	1,746	00.76	653	00.24	1,546	00.92	450	00.45	260	00.32	203	00.41	27	00.33
Hugo Banzer Suárez	17,803	21.37	187,718	36.39	78,890	34.26	107,729	38.60	35,186	20.89	28,800	28.33	16,383	24.13	18,663	37.45	2,763	33.30
Ramiro Velasco Romero	2,704	03.25	14,503	02.82	8,038	03.49	3,656	01.31	4,279	02.54	4,269	04.23	880	01.30	406	00.82	51	00.62
Francisco Figueroa Francisco Figueroa Francisco Figueroa is a professional boxer from the Orlando,FL, USA.Francisco Figueroa, whose nickname is "El Gato", has been featured numerous times on ESPN2 and HBO fights. On August 17, 2005 he defeated Hector Alejandro, Jr for the New York State Light Welterweight Championship...	953	01.15	5,529	01.08	1,378	00.60	1,118	00.40	1,501	00.83	678	00.60	341	00.50	179	00.36	19	00.23
Valid votes	83,306		515,849		230,278		279,120		168,504		100,963		67,894		49,844		8,298
Invalid votes	16,063		90,358		37,377		20,422		25,721		16,754		6,962		3,562		469
Votes cast	99,369		606,207		267,655		299,542		200,846		117,717		74,856		53,406		8,767