(17 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Entre Rios, Bolivia – 17 August 2025
1. Election workers counting votes in region where former president Evo Morales has strong following
2. Various of election worker counting votes UPSOUND No name given (Spanish) "Null vote (spoilt ballot)"
3. Various of spoilt ballots
4. Various of election workers tallying votes on sheet UPSOUND No name given (Spanish) "Another null vote"
5. Close of total of null votes on tally sheet
ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia – 17 August 2025
6. Various of ballot boxes with votes
7. Election worker retrieving ballots
8. Various of election worker reading ballots aloud
9. Wide of ballots
10. Various of elections workers counting ballots, reading them aloud
11. Wide of votes being tallied
STORYLINE:
Workers began tallying up votes in Bolivia’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday in an election that could see a right-wing government elected for the first time in over two decades.
The vote, which could spell the end of the Andean nation’s long-dominant leftist party, is one of the most consequential for Bolivia in recent times — and one of the most unpredictable.
Polling stations closed at 4 p.m. local time and the counting began, with initial results expected after several hours.
In the run-up to Sunday, a remarkable 30% or so of voters remained undecided.
Polls showed the two leading right-wing candidates, multimillionaire business owner Samuel Doria Medina and former President Jorge Fernando “Tuto” Quiroga, locked in a virtual dead heat.
Voting is mandatory in Bolivia, where some 7.9 million Bolivians are eligible to vote.
If, as is widely expected, no presidential candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, or 40% of the vote with a lead of 10 percentage points, the top two candidates will compete in a runoff on October 19 for the first time since Bolivia’s 1982 return to democracy.
All 130 seats in Bolivia’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament, are also up for grabs, along with 36 in the Senate, the upper house.
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