Bolivian general election, 2014

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October 12, 2014

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President, all 36 + 130 seats in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly


Nominee	Evo Morales	Samuel Doria Medina	Jorge Quiroga
Party	MAS-IPSP	National Unity	Christian Democratic Party
Running mate	Álvaro García Linera	Ernesto Suárez	Tomasa Yarhui
Popular vote	3,173,304	1,253,288	467,311
Percentage	61.36%	24.23%	9.04%


Nominee	Juan del Granado	Fernando Vargas
Party	Movement Without Fear	Green Party
Running mate	Adriana Gil	Margot Soria Saravia
Popular vote	140,285	137,240
Percentage	2.71%	2.65%

President before election

Evo Morales
MAS-IPSP

Elected President

Evo Morales
MAS-IPSP

The Bolivian general election, 2014 was Bolivia's second to take place under the country's 2009 constitution, and the first supervised by the Plurinational Electoral Organ, a newly created fourth branch of government. Incumbent President Evo Morales was re-elected for a third term.

The vote was held in October 2014. Bolivian voters elected the President and Vice President of the Republic, 130 members of the Chamber of Deputies, and 36 members of the Senate, as well as the five first directly elected deputies to the Andean Parliament.

In April 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that the first term of President Evo Morales did not count towards constitutional term limits as the constitution of Bolivia had since been amended. On 20 May, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera signed a bill into law in the presence of MPs, members of the armed forces and Movement for Socialism representatives. He said: "President Evo Morales is constitutionally permitted to run for re-election in 2015." This was despite Morales not having made an announcement to run. Unnamed opposition leaders said they would appeal the ruling in trying to overturn it.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) said in November 2013 that it is considering holding the election in October 2014, so any second round of presidential voting could take place in December, the traditional month for presidential elections. The TSE formally convened the election for October 12, 2014. Registration for new voters opened May 10 and ran through June 9. Formal inter-party alliances needed to be finalized by July 14 to appear on the ballot. Campaign advertising was permitted only from September 12 to October 8. Bolivia observes limits on electoral activity in the days immediately preceding an election, and special restrictions on election day.

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