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The 2010 Bolivian regional elections were held on 4 April 2010. Departmental and municipal authorities were elected by an electorate of approximately 5 million people. Among the officials elected are:
Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments. Departments are the primary subdivisions of Bolivia, and possess certain rights under the Constitution of Bolivia. Each department is represented in the federal Plurinational Legislative Assembly—a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. Each department is represented by four Senators, while Deputies are awarded to each state in proportion to their total population.
Usos y costumbres is a legal term denoting indigenous customary law in Latin America. Since the era of Spanish colonialism, authorities have recognized local forms of rulership, self governance, and juridical practice, with varying degrees of acceptance and formality. The term is often used in English without translation.
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 Ballivián. Its capital is Trinidad.
The political parties contesting elections in each department are as follows:
Beni First is a regional, right-leaning political party in Beni Department. The party won the 4 April 2010 regional election, the only one it has ever contested, electing both Ernesto Suárez Sattori as governor and a plurality of 11 members of the Departmental Legislative Assembly, in which it became the largest single party. It holds the mayor's office in eight municipalities.
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party and the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution. It influenced much of the country's history since 1941.
The Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, alternately referred to as "Movement Toward Socialism" or "Movement to Socialism", is a Bolivian left-wing socialist political movement led by Evo Morales, founded in 1998. Its followers are known as masistas.
Including these parties, a total of 191 political forces contested municipal elections. Only the Movement towards Socialism was involved in all 337 municipal contests. [3] Other parties participating in large numbers of contests are as follows:
Party | Number of Municipalities | Mayors elected [4] |
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Movement towards Socialism | 337 | 231 |
Without Fear Movement | 176 | 21 |
Movement for Sovereignty | 53 | 6 |
Front for Victory | 50 | 2 |
Patriotic Social Alliance | 38 | 2 |
VERDES, Truth and Social Democracy | 33 | 15 |
National Unity Front | 31 | |
Broad Front of MNR and Autonomy for Bolivia | 31 | 2 |
All for Santa Cruz | 30 | |
Social Alliance | 22 | 1 |
Beni First | 19 | 8 |
MNR-Pueblo | 19 | 3 |
Popular Solidarity Alliance | 16 | |
Originary Popular Movement | 15 | |
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement | 15 | |
Popular Consensus | 15 | 8 |
All for Cochabamba | 12 | 0 |
Irregularities and fraud in the voting have been alleged in at least four departments, those of the so-called media luna, Beni, Pando, Tarija, and Santa Cruz. In all four departments, the MAS-IPSP has denounced fraud and called for legal action against those responsible, some times joined by opposing political parties. Departmental Electoral Courts have invalidated votes at a number of voting tables where fraud or irregularities have been confirmed. Voters enrolled at these tables were called to cast votes again on April 18.
Andrés Ibáñez Province is one of the fifteen provinces of the Bolivian Santa Cruz Department, situated in the western part of the department. Its capital is Santa Cruz de la Sierra which is also the capital of the department.
Jessica Anne Jordan Burton is a Bolivian-British politician, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Bolivia 2007 and represented Bolivia at Miss Universe 2007 pageant in Mexico City.
As of 12 Abril, with counting nearly complete, all Governor's contests were effectively decided. The MAS-IPSP won 6 governorships, in Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, and Potosí. Victors in other races were: Beni First's Ernesto Suárez, Rubén Costas of the Greens in Santa Cruz, and Mario Cossío of the Path towards Change in Tarija.
Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera is a Bolivian politician and the current governor of Bolivia's Santa Cruz department for the Truth and Social Democracy (VERDES) party. In 2013, he founded the Social Democrat Movement party to participate in the 2014 presidential and parliamentary election. Previously he served as prefect on behalf of the Autonomy for Bolivia party. He was one of the nine Bolivian prefects directly elected in the general elections of 2005. This election was the result of several negotiations and large, peaceful public demonstrations in Santa Cruz. The 1967 Bolivian constitution said that prefects can only be appointed by the president, but because of the negotiations and popular desire, the Bolivian Congress approved Law 3015 to formalize the prefect election process.
Complete vote totals are as follows:
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members 24 elected by territory | |||||
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Ernesto Suárez | Beni First | 64.055 | 42,5% | 11 | |||||
Jessica Jordan | Movement for Socialism | 60.477 | 40,1% | 10 | |||||
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement-Pueblo | 18.269 | 12,1% | 3 | ||||||
Amazon Convergence | 5.949 | 3,9% | 0 | ||||||
Autonomous Nationalities for Change and Empowerment | 1.894 | 1,3% | 0 | ||||||
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 2 | |||||||
Peasant Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 2 | |||||||
Valid votes | 150.644 | 91,6% | |||||||
Blank votes | 8.739 | 5,3 | |||||||
Null votes | 5.009 | 3,0% | |||||||
Total votes | 164.392 | 86,8% of registered voters | 28 | ||||||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
The indigenous representatives were elected separately in an Assembly of the Indigenous People of Beni held in the Pastoral Center of the Apostolic Vicarate of Beni on 22 March 2010. Lola Tabo (of the Cavineño people, nominated by the Central Indígena de la Región Amazónica de Bolivia, CIRABO) and William Cuellar (Sirionó, nominated by the Central de Pueblos Indígenas del Beni, CPIB) were elected as departmental assembly members. Inocencio Yubanure (Mojeño-Ignaciano, nominated by the Central de Pueblos Étnicos Mojeños del Beni, CPEMB) and Dolores Muiba Noza (Mojeño-Trinitario, nominated by the Central de Mujeres Indígenas Beni, CMIB) were the chosen alternates. [10]
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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Esteban Urquizu | Movement for Socialism | 109.270 | 53,6% | 9 | 90.921 | 53,3% | 6 | 15 | |
Jhon Cava | We Are All Chuquisaca | 72.314 | 35,5% | 1 | 53.801 | 31,5% | 3 | 4 | |
Renewing Freedom and Democracy (LIDER) | 8.752 | 4,3% | 0 | 10.012 | 5,9% | 0 | 0 | ||
Bernabé Paredes | Without Fear Movement | 8.044 | 3,9% | 0 | 9.799 | 5,7% | 0 | 0 | |
Horacio Poppe | Falange F-19 | 5.476 | 2,7% | 0 | 6.127 | 3,6% | 0 | 0 | |
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres by the Guaraní people | 2 | |||||||
Valid votes | 203.856 | 86,3% | 170.660 | 72,4% | |||||
Blank votes | 19.966 | 8,5% | 55.051 | 23,4% | |||||
Null votes | 12.439 | 5,3% | 9.849 | 4,2% | |||||
Total votes | 236.261 | 86,7% of registered voters | 10 | 235.560 | 86,4% of registered voters | 9 | 21 | ||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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Edmundo Novillo Aguilar | Movement for Socialism | 415.245 | 61,9% | 16 | 360.785 | 60,7% | 11 | 27 | |
Marvell José María Leyes Justiniano | National Unity Front-Popular Consensus (All for Cochabamba) | 174.175 | 26,0% | 0 | 147.442 | 24,8% | 4 | 4 | |
José Ronald Del Barco Alcocer | Without Fear Movement | 52.516 | 7,8% | 0 | 63.614 | 10,7% | 1 | 1 | |
María Casta Jaimes Arriaran | Nationalist Revolutionary Movement | 29.250 | 4,4 | 0 | 22.800 | 3,8% | 0 | 0 | |
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres by the Yuqui and Yuracaré peoples | 2 | |||||||
Valid votes | 671.186 | 81,9% | 594.641 | 72,7% | |||||
Blank votes | 111.510 | 13,6 | 183.077 | 22,4% | |||||
Null votes | 36.905 | 4,5% | 40.713 | 5,0% | |||||
Total votes | 819.601 | 87,2% of registered voters | 16 | 818.431 | 87,1% of registered voters | 16 | 34 | ||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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César Cocarico | Movement for Socialism | 534.563 | 50,0% | 19 | 407.949 | 46,9% | 11 | 30 | |
Simón Yampara | Without Fear Movement | 23,2 | 1 | 251.400 | 28,9% | 6 | 7 | ||
Carlos Hugo Laruta | National Unity Front | 159.499 | 14,9% | 0 | 107.026 | 12,3% | 2 | 2 | |
Lino Villca | Movement for Sovereignty | 67.863 | 6,3% | 0 | 49.862 | 5,7% | 1 | 1 | |
Julio Tito Condori | Patriotic Social Alliance | 30.361 | 2,8% | 0 | 28.542 | 3,3% | 0 | 0 | |
Einar Calderón | Nationalist Revolutionary Movement | 29.152 | 2,7 | 0 | 24.620 | 2,8% | 0 | 0 | |
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 5 | |||||||
Valid votes | 1.069.234 | 79,8% | 869.399 | 65,0% | |||||
Blank votes | 190.967 | 14,3 | 403.715 | 30,2% | |||||
Null votes | 79.475 | 5,9% | 64.527 | 4,8% | |||||
Total votes | 1.339.676 | 89,1% of registered voters | 20 | 1.337.641 | 88,9% of registered voters | 20 | 45 | ||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional, Boletín 22: Explicación asignación de escaños departamentales |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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Santos Tito | Movement for Socialism | 107.576 | 59,6% | 15 | 83.220 | 56,1% | 10 | 25 | |
Iver Pereira Vásquez | Without Fear Movement | 53.111 | 29,4 | 1 | 47.319 | 31,9% | 5 | 6 | |
National Unity Front | 13.933 | 7,7% | 0 | 12.277 | 8,3% | 1 | 1 | ||
Guillermo Zolá Eugenio | Nationalist Revolutionary Movement | 5.800 | 3,2% | 0 | 5.612 | 3,8% | 0 | 0 | |
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 1 | |||||||
Valid votes | 180.420 | 81,5% | 148.428 | 67,1% | |||||
Blank votes | 28.055 | 12,7 | 62.222 | 30,2% | |||||
Null votes | 12.939 | 5,8% | 10.706 | 4,8% | |||||
Total votes | 221.414 | 87,5% of registered voters | 16 | 221.356 | 87,4% of registered voters | 16 | 33 | ||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional, Boletín 22: Explicación asignación de escaños departamentales |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Total Assembly Members | ||
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Luis Adolfo Flores | Movement for Socialism | 17.192 | 49,7% | 7 | 7 | ||
Paulo Jorge Bravo | Popular Consensus | 16.744 | 48,4% | 8 | 8 | ||
Egidio Tuesta | Without Fear Movement | 657 | 1,9% | did not contest | |||
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 1 | |||||
Valid votes | 34.593 | 93,4% | |||||
Blank votes | 1.292 | 3,5% | |||||
Null votes | 1.168 | 3,2% | |||||
Total votes | 37.053 | 85,5% of registered voters | 15 | 16 | |||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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Félix Gonzáles | Movement for Socialism | 163.989 | 66,8% | 16 | 123.663 | 63,1% | 11 | 27 | |
Richard Alejo | Social Alliance | 31.564 | 12,9% | 0 | 39.152 | 20,0% | 3 | 4 | |
Orlando Careaga | Uqarikuna Citizen Association | 27.873 | 11,4% | 0 | 13.569 | 6,9% | 1 | 1 | |
Miguel Ángel Pineda | Potosí Regional Civic Front | 15.960 | 6,5% | 0 | 14.275 | 7,3% | 1 | 1 | |
Guillermo Condori Ramos | Revolutionary Nationalist Movement | 6.066 | 2,5% | 0 | 5.171 | 2,6% | 0 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 245.452 | 80,4% | 195.830 | 64,2% | |||||
Blank votes | 37.311 | 12,2% | 96.033 | 31,5% | |||||
Null votes | 22.599 | 7,4% | 13.226 | 4,3% | |||||
Total votes | 305.362 | 83,2% of registered voters | 16 | 305.089 | 83,1% of registered voters | 16 | 32 | ||
Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Votes for Assembly by Population | Percentage | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |
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Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera | Truth and Social Democracy (Verdes) | 515.370 | 52,6% | 7 | 411.019 | 50,6% | 5 | 12 | |
Jerjes Justiniano Talavera | Movement for Socialism | 374.326 | 38,2% | 6 | 294.948 | 36,3% | 3 | 9 | |
Juan Carlos Urenda | All for Santa Cruz | 43.929 | 4,5% | 0 | 46.591 | 5,7% | 0 | 0 | |
Willams Paniagua Yépez | Broad Front of Revolutionary Nationalist Movement and Autonomy for Bolivia | 25.031 | 2,6% | 2 | 34.709 | 4,3% | 0 | 2 | |
José Carlos Gutiérrez Vargas | Without Fear Movement | 11.530 | 1,2% | 0 | 17.016 | 2,1% | 0 | 0 | |
Érika Oroza Werner | Nationalist Citizen Force | 8.937 | 0,9% | 0 | 8.660 | 1,1% | 0 | 0 | |
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres | 5 | |||||||
Valid votes | 979.123 | 93,0% | 812.943 | 78,3% | |||||
Blank votes | 39.955 | 3,8% | 203.015 | 19,5% | |||||
Null votes | 33.348 | 3,2% | 22.929 | 2,2% | |||||
Total votes | 1.052.426 | 85,9% of registered voters | 15 | 1.038.887 | 84,7% of registered voters | 8 | 28 | ||
All party percentages are the percent of valid votes. Percentages of valid, blank, and null votes are the percent of total votes emitted. Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
Gubernatorial Candidate | Party | Votes for Governor | Percentage | Assembly Members by Territory | Assembly Members by Population | Total Assembly Members | |||
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Mario Adel Cossio Cortez | Path to Change (MNR - CDC - FRI alliance) | 97.726 | 48,9% | 5 | 6 | 11 | |||
Carlos Cabrera | Movement for Socialism | 88.014 | 44,1% | 5 | 6 | 11 | |||
Edwin Flores | National Power of Autonomy | 13.909 | 7,0% | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
Indigenous Representatives | Elected through usos y costumbres by the Guaraní, Weenhayek, and Tapiete peoples | 3 | |||||||
Valid votes | 199.649 | 88,7% | |||||||
Blank votes | 16.827 | 7,5% | |||||||
Null votes | 8.574 | 3,8% | |||||||
Total votes | 225.050 | 85,0% of registered voters | 12 | 15 | 30 | ||||
All party percentages are the percent of valid votes. Percentages of valid, blank, and null votes are the percent of total votes emitted. Source: Corte Nacional Electoral, Acto de Computo Nacional |
As of 12 April, MAS-IPSP had won the Mayor's race in 229 of the country's 337 municipalities. [11] However, among major cities (the departmental capitals plus El Alto) it won just three, Cochabamba, Cobija (Pando Department), and El Alto. Without Fear Movement candidates will be Mayors of La Paz (Luis Revilla) and Oruro. Regional candidates won in the following major cities: Jaime Barrón (PAÍS) in Sucre, Óscar Montes (Unidos para Renovar) in Tarija, Percy Fernández in Santa Cruz, Moisés Shriqui (Beni First) in Trinidad, and René Joaquino (Social Alliance) in Potosí. [12]
Other municipal results are as follows:
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