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 6 June 1993, 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.

Presidential election results

Presidential candidates	Party	Candidates for Vice President	Party	Party/Alliance	Votes	%
Oscar Bonifaz Gutiérrez	ONI	Enriqueta Ulloa Mealla	ONI	ONI	8,096	00.49%
Carlos Palenque Avilés	CONDEPA	Ivo Kuljis Fuchtner	CONDEPA	CONDEPA	235,427	14.29%
Carlos Serrate Reich	VR-9	Ramiro Victor Paz Cerruto	VR-9	VR-9	21,100	01.28%
Casiano Ancalle Choque	ARBOL	Roberto Pacheco García	ARBOL	ARBOL	30,867	01.87%
Max Fernández Rojas	UCS	Edgar Talavera Soliz	UCS	UCS	226,816	13.77%
Fernando Untoja Choque Fernando Untoja Choque Fernando Untoja Choque is a Bolivian politician. An economist and political scientist, Untoja served as lecturer at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, the Universidad Técnica de Oruro, the Military Engineering School and the Army Military College "Gualberto Villarroel". Furthermore, he...	MKN	Tomás Ticuazu Heritaruqui	MKN	MKN	12,627	00.77%
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	Óscar Zamora Medinaceli Óscar Zamora Medinaceli Óscar Zamora Medinaceli is a is a Bolivian politician and lawyer. A communist student activist in his youth and leader of a failed Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, Zamora Medinaceli went on to become a senator, minister, mayor, ambassador and prefect.-Student activist:Zamora Medinaceli entered...	PCML	AP	346,865	21.05%
Félix Cárdenas Aguilar	Eje de C	Ramiro Barrenechea Zambrana	Eje de C	Eje de C	18,176	01.10%
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez de Bustamante , familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former President of Bolivia. A lifelong member of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , he is credited for using "shock therapy", the economic theory championed by then...	MNR	Víctor Hugo Cárdenas Víctor Hugo Cárdenas Víctor Hugo Cárdenas Conde is a Bolivian indigenous Aymara activist and politician. He is the leader of the MRTKL party...	MRTKL	MNR, MRTKL, PDB, PCML (d), MNRI-Siglo XX	585,837	35.55%
Jerjes Justiniano Talavera	ASD	Pablo Ramos Sánchez	ASD	ASD	30,286	01.84%
Ramiro Velasco Romero	PS-1	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...	FULKA	IU	16,137	00.98%
Carlos Valverde Barbery	MFD	José Roberto Caballero	MFD	MFD	6,269	00.38%
Antonio Aranibar Quiroga	MBL	Miguel Urioste Fernández	MBL	MBL	88,260	05.36%
Jose Mario Serrate Paz	FSB	José Gamarra Zorrilla	FSB	FSB	20,947	01.27%
Valid votes	***	***	***	***	1,647,710	100.00%
Invalid votes	***	***	***	***	83599	***
Votes cast	***	***	***	***	1,731,309	***
Registered voters	***	***	***	***	2,399,197	***
Population	***	***	***	***	7,063,200	***

ONI – National Organization of Independents

CONDEPA – Conscience of Fatherland

Conscience of Fatherland

Conscience of the Fatherland was a populist political party in Bolivia in the late 20th century. The party was led by Carlos Palenque.-Goals:CONDEPA was founded in Tiwanaku on September 21, 1988...

VR-9 – Revolutionary Vanguard of 9 April

ARBOL – Bolivian Renewal Alliance

UCS – Solidarity Civic Union

MKN – National Katarista Movement

AP – Patriotic Accord. Electoral alliance formed by

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...

, ADN;

Christian Democratic Party

Christian Democratic Party (Bolivia)

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

, PDC;

Revolutionary Left Movement

Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)

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

, MIR;

Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist), PCML.

Eje de C – Patriotic National Convergency Axis

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...

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....

PDB – Bolivian Democratic Party

PCML (d) – Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist) (dissidents)

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...

ASD – Alternative to Democratic Socialism

IU – United Left

United Left (Bolivia)

The United Left was a political coalition in Bolivia. IU was launched ahead of the 1989 national elections, as a successor of the United People's Front...

. Electoral alliance formed by

Movement of the Revolutionary Left-Masses, MIR-M;

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;

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...

, POR-U;

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...

, PS-1;

Movement for Socialism- Unzaguista, MAS-U;

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;

Katarist United Liberation Front

Katarist United Liberation Front

The Katarist United Liberation Front was a Katarist political party in Bolivia. The party was launched by Jenaro Flores Santos ahead of the 1989 elections. FULKA was formed after a split in the Tupaq Katari Revolutionary Movement at the 1988 congress of MRTK...

, FULKA.

MFD – Democratic Federalist Movement

MBL – Free Bolivia Movement

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...

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...

Congressional confirmation (August, 4 1993)

Presidential candidates	Parties	Votes
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez de Bustamante , familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former President of Bolivia. A lifelong member of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , he is credited for using "shock therapy", the economic theory championed by then...  (MNR)	MNR, MRTKL, PCML (d), PDB, UCS, MBL	97
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)	(On 10.06 Banzer formally conceded defeat and declined his possibility of parliamentary election)	**
Not voting	AND, MIR, PCML, PDC, CONDEPA, ARBOL, Eje de C, ASD	60
Total		157

Results by Department

Candidates / Department	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...		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:...		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...		La Paz		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 :...		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....		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....		Santa Cruz		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...		Total
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Oscar Bonifaz Gutiérrez	279	00.41	185	00.24	1,361	00.57	2,544	00.41	302	00.32	59	00.53	2,103	01.67	720	00.21	543	00.69	8,096	00.49
Carlos Palenque Avilés	864	01.25	1,950	02.53	8,911	03.73	188,322	30.58	11,630	11.71	48	00.43	7,936	06.30	14.366	04.35	1,400	01.76	235,427	14.29
Carlos Serrate Reich	555	00.81	1,822	02.36	2,688	01.13	7,806	01.27	1,053	01.06	96	00.87	2,609	02.07	3.327	01.01	1,144	01.44	21,100	01.28
Casiano Ancalle Choque	1,084	01.57	1,284	01.67	4,824	02.02	9,090	01.48	5,224	05.26	51	00.46	2,314	01.84	6.392	01.94	584	00.74	30,867	01.87
Max Fernández Rojas	7,958	11.53	9,788	12.67	44,843	18.75	64,797	10.52	20,171	20.31	776	06.97	24,563	19.48	42.939	13.01	10,981	13.80	226,816	13.77
Fernando Untoja Choque Fernando Untoja Choque Fernando Untoja Choque is a Bolivian politician. An economist and political scientist, Untoja served as lecturer at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, the Universidad Técnica de Oruro, the Military Engineering School and the Army Military College "Gualberto Villarroel". Furthermore, he...	125	00.18	324	00.42	1,375	00.58	7,358	01.19	1,491	01.50	14	00.13	1,026	00.82	657	00.20	257	00.33	12,627	00.77
Hugo BanzerHugo Banzer Suárez	25,512	36.94	20,265	26.24	50,349	21.06	85,331	13.85	18,116	18.24	5,654	50.73	28,478	22.58	89.051	26.98	24,109	30.29	346,865	21.05
Félix Cárdenas Aguilar	98	00.15	607	00.79	1,604	00.67	10,607	01.72	1,329	01.34	7	00.07	2,320	01.84	1.321	00.40	283	00.36	18,176	01.10
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez de Bustamante , familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former President of Bolivia. A lifelong member of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , he is credited for using "shock therapy", the economic theory championed by then...	28,595	41.40	24,680	31.95	96,752	40.46	192,964	31.33	33,035	33.27	3,688	33.09	38,658	30.66	133.758	40.52	33,707	42.35	585,837	35.55
Jerjes Justiniano Talavera	635	00.92	863	01.12	3,048	01,28	8,223	01.34	903	00.91	261	02.35	1,285	01.02	13.637	04.13	1,431	01.80	30,286	01.84
Ramiro Velasco Romero	860	01.25	2,494	03.23	2,292	00.96	5,062	00.82	907	00.91	57	00.52	2,244	01.78	1.401	00.42	820	01,03	16,137	00.98
Carlos Valverde Barbery	88	00.13	290	00.38	717	00.30	1,475	00.24	369	00.37	14	00.13	697	00.56	2.364	00.72	255	00.32	6,269	00.38
Antonio Aranibar Quiroga	1,331	01.93	11,721	15.18	17,924	07.50	27,113	04.40	3,967	03.99	249	02.24	10,012	07.94	12.657	03.83	3,286	04.13	88,260	05.36
Jose Mario Serrate Paz	1,089	01.58	977	01.27	2,478	01.04	5,225	00.85	806	00.81	173	01.56	1,874	01.49	7.523	02.28	802	01.01	20,947	01.27
Valid votes	69,073	100.0	77,250	100.0	239,166	100.0	615,.917	100.0	99,323	100.0	11,147	100.0	126,119	100.0	330,113	100.0	79,602	100.0	1,647,710	100.00
Invalid votes	2,572	***	4,791	***	13,127	***	32,571	***	4,910	***	268	***	10,263	***	11,607	***	3,490	***	83,599	***
Votes cast	71,645	***	82,041	***	252,293	***	648,488	***	104,233	***	11,415	***	136,382	***	341,720	***	83,092	***	1,731,309	***
Registered voters	90,204		118,037		367,661		883,482		139,123		13,059		190,677		480,071		102,794