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Constituent Assembly elections were held in Bolivia on 2 July 2006, alongside a referendum on increased regional autonomy. [1] The ruling Movement for Socialism won 137 of the 255 seats. [1]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department | National | Total | ||||||
| Movement for Socialism | 1,322,656 | 50.72 | 18 | 119 | 137 | |||
| Social and Democratic Power | 399,670 | 15.33 | 11 | 49 | 60 | |||
| National Unity Front | 187,710 | 7.20 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||
| MNR–Alliance 3 | 101,750 | 3.90 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| National Coalition | 93,248 | 3.58 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| Social Patriotic Alliance | 63,565 | 2.44 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement | 59,239 | 2.27 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||
| Autonomy for Bolivia | 57,906 | 2.22 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Integration Social Autonomy | 56,907 | 2.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Revolutionary Left Movement | 39,983 | 1.53 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Democratic Patriotic Transformation | 37,684 | 1.45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| MNR–FRI | 35,580 | 1.36 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |||
| Free Bolivia Movement | 27,658 | 1.06 | 1 | 7 | 8 | |||
| ADN–UCS | 23,342 | 0.90 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Social Alliance | 20,970 | 0.80 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |||
| Nationalist Democratic Action | 18,905 | 0.72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Solidarity Civic Unity | 12,750 | 0.49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ayra Movement | 12,667 | 0.49 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Original People's Movement | 12,309 | 0.47 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Citizen's Action Movement | 8,903 | 0.34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| National Democratic Convergence | 4,247 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| San Felipe de Austria Citizen's Movement | 3,992 | 0.15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Regional Autonomy Movement | 2,486 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Bolivian Integration Movement | 1,869 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Alianza de Bases | 1,645 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 2,607,641 | 100.00 | 45 | 210 | 255 | |||
| Valid votes | 2,607,641 | 83.22 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 525,970 | 16.78 | ||||||
| Total votes | 3,133,611 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,713,379 | 84.39 | ||||||
| Source: PDBA, ACE Oviedo & Furio | ||||||||
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