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General elections are scheduled to take place in Bolivia on 17 August 2025. Voters will elect the President of Bolivia and Vice President of Bolivia, 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and 36 members of the Chamber of Senators.
| Date | Polling firm | Arce MAS | Reyes Villa Súmate | Mesa CC | Camacho Creemos | Morales MAS | Rodríguez MAS | Quiroga Libre 21 | Cuellar Cambio25 | Copa Ind. | Medina FUN | Soliz PDC | Claure Ind. | Galindo Ind. | Chi Ind. | Lara NIL | Paz CC | Choquehuanca MAS | Undecided |
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| 15 Nov 2024 | Consultora Morris | 12% | 35% | 1% | 6% | - | 25% | 14% | 0.8% | - | 2% | - | - | - | 1% | - | 0.2% | - | - |
| 2-15 Nov 2024 | Panterra | 4% | 18% | 6% | 9% | 17% | - | 9% | - | - | 13% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21% | |
| Sep 2024 | Diagonsis | 16% | 10% | 8% | 4% | 10% | 10% | - | 9% | - | 4% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3% | 9% |
| Jun 2024 | Captura Consulting | - | 13% | 6% | 10% | - | 13% | 4% | 5% | - | 9% | - | - | 10% | 6% | 3% | - | - | 19% |
| May 2024 | Diagnosis | 19% | 5% | 9% | 3% | 9% | 7% | - | 7% | - | 2% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10% | |
| Apr 2024 | Coolosa Comunicaciones | 8.79% | 11.06% | 7.52% | 1.71% | 7.73% | 0.79% | 3.86% | 10.77% | 1.25% | 5.95% | 1.29% | - | 5.80% | - | 5.04% | 2.82% | - | 4.22% |
| 16-17 Mar 2024 | Diagnosis | 17% | 2% | 10% | 2% | 12% | 7% | - | 9% | - | 4% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 15 Mar 2024 | Captura Consulting | 16% | 12% | 8% | 7% | - | 11% | - | 3% | - | 9% | - | 7% | 7% | 2% | - | - | 18% | |
| Nov 2023 | Diagnosis | 21% | 3% | 12% | 4% | 11% | - | - | 9% | - | 5% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12% | |
| 9-10 Sep 2023 | Diagnosis | 18% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 9% | - | - | 9% | - | 6% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14% | |
| 19-20 Aug 2023 | Diagnosis | 14% | 3% | 13% | 2% | 10% | 3% | - | 6% | - | 4% | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18% | |
| Aug 2023 | Poder y Placer | 12% | 8% | 10% | 9% | 11% | - | - | 3% | 2% | 9% | - | 4% | 6% | - | - | 1% | 24% | |
| 8-9 Jul 2023 | Diagnosis | 14% | 3% | 13% | 2% | 9% | - | - | 6% | - | 4% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 22 May-22 Jun 2023 | Poder y Placer | 17% | 4% | 13% | 1% | 12% | - | 2% | 1% | 8% | 13% | - | 3% | 10% | - | 1% | 2% | - | |
| 29 Dec 2022-19 Jan 2023 | Poder y Placer | 21% | 9% | 19% | 13% | 11% | - | - | - | - | 19% | - | 13% | 2% | - | - | - | 7% | |
| Jul 2022 | Captura Consulting | 18% | - | 11% | 8% | 11% | - | 5% | - | 3% | 3% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 9-19 Apr 2022 | Captura Consulting | 17% | 10% | 11% | 15% | 11% | - | 7% | - | 5% | 4% | 3% | - | - | - | - | - | 20% | |
| Dec 2021 | Captura Consulting | 23% | 12% | 13% | 15% | - | - | 3% | 7% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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