Bolivian regional election, 2010
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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:
  • Governors of all nine departments
    Departments of Bolivia
    Bolivia is divided into nine departments . Each of the departments is subdivided into provinces , which are further subdivided into municipalities ....

  • Members of Departamental Legislative Assemblies in each department; 23 seats in these Assemblies will represent indigenous communities, and have been selected by traditional usos y costumbres
    Usos y costumbres
    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...

     in the weeks prior to the election
  • Provincial Subgovernors and Municipal Corregidors (executive authorities) in Beni
    Beni Department
    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...

  • Sectional Development Executives at the provincial level in Tarija
    Tarija Department
    Tarija is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering Argentina to the south and Paraguay to the east. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 391,226 inhabitants. It has an area of 37.623 km²...

  • Mayors and Council members in all 337 municipalities
    Municipalities of Bolivia
    Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

  • The five members of the Regional Assembly in the autonomous region of Gran Chaco
    Gran Chaco Province
    Gran Chaco is a province in the eastern parts of the Bolivian department Tarija. The province voted to become an autonomous region on 6 December 2009.-Location:Gran Chaco province is one of six provinces in the Tarija Department...


Political parties participating

The political parties contesting elections in each department are as follows:
  • Beni
    Beni Department
    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...

    : Amazon Convergence (Convergencia Amazónica), Beni First (Primero El Beni), Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

     (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario; MNR), Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

     (Movimiento Al Socialismo - Instrumento Político por la Soberanía de los Pueblos; MAS-IPSP), and Autonomous Nationalities for Change and Empowerment (Nacionalidades Autónomas por el Cambio y Empoderamiento; NACER).
  • Chuquisaca
    Chuquisaca Department
    Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

    :We are all Chuquisaca
    We Are All Chuquisaca
    We Are All Chuquisaca was an electoral alliance of the in the 4 April 2010 elections in Cochabamba department. Its candidate for Governor of Chuquisaca, Jhon Cava, former president of the Chuquisaca Civic Committee, placed second with 35.5% of the vote...

     (Chuquisaca somos Todos, a coalition of the National Unity Front and Popular Consensus), Renewing Freedom and Democracy (Libertad y Democracia Renovadora), Falange April 19, Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     (Movimiento sin Miedo; MSM), and Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .
  • Cochabamba
    Cochabamba Department
    Cochabamba is one of the nine component departments of Bolivia. It is known to be the "granary" of the country because of its variety of agricultural products due to Cochabamba's geographical position. It has an area of 55,631 km². Its population, in the 2007 census, was 1,750,000...

    : All for Cochabamba
    All for Cochabamba
    All for Cochabamba is an electoral alliance of the National Unity Front and Popular Consensus parties in the 2010 elections in Cochabamba department...

     (Todos por Cochabamba), Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

    , Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

    , and Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .
  • La Paz:National Unity Front
    National Unity Front
    The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,...

     (Frente de Unidad Nacional), Patriotic Social Alliance (Alianza Social Patriótica), Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

    , Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    , Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     , and Movement for Sovereignty
    Movement for Sovereignty
    The Movement for Sovereignty is a leftist, indigenist Bolivian political party founded by dissidents of the Movement for Socialism . Its leader, and fourth-place candidate for Governor of La Paz department in the 2010 regional election is Lino Villca...

     (Movimiento por la Soberanía).
  • Oruro
    Oruro Department
    Oruro is a department in Bolivia, with an area of 53,588 km². Its capital is the city of Oruro. At the time of census 2001 it had a population of 391,870.- Provinces of Oruro :...

    : National Unity Front
    National Unity Front
    The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,...

     (Frente de Unidad Nacional), Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

    , Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    , and Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

    .
  • Pando
    Pando Department
    Pando is a department of Bolivia, with an area of , adjoining the border with Brazil. Pando has a population 66,689 . Its capital is the city of Cobija....

    : Popular Consensus
    Popular Consensus
    Popular Consensus is a center-right Bolivian political party founded in 2009. CP founder Óscar Ortiz Antelo was President of the Senate of Bolivia from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009 national election, the party formed an electoral alliance with the National Unity Front, the Consensus Alliance for...

     (Consenso Popular), Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

    , and Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .
  • Potosí
    Potosí Department
    Potosí Department is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km² with 709,013 inhabitants . The capital is the city of Potosí....

    : Potosí Regional Civic Front (Frente Cívico Regional Potosinista), Uqarikuna Citizen Association (Agrupación Ciudadana Uqarikuna), Social Alliance
    Social Alliance
    The Social Alliance is a Bolivian political party founded on 9 October 2005. The party grew out of the successful 2004 campaign of leader René Joaquino Cabrera for mayor of Potosí.-External links:**...

     (Alianza Social), Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

    , Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .
  • Santa Cruz
    Santa Cruz Department
    Santa Cruz, with an area of 370,621 km², is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia. In the 2001 census, it reported a population of 2,029,471. The capital is the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The state is one of the wealthiest states in Bolivia with huge reserves of...

    : Broad Front of Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
    The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

     and Autonomy for Bolivia
    Autonomy for Bolivia
    Autonomy for Bolivia is a political party based in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.The party was founded by Ruben Costas, so that he could stand for election to the prefect of Santa Cruz Department in the Bolivian general elections of 2005....

     (Frente Amplio), All for Santa Cruz (Todos por Santa Cruz), Nationalist Citizen Force (Fuerza Ciudadana Nacionalista), Truth and Social Democracy
    Truth and Social Democracy
    Verdes is a political party in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia founded in 2009 and led by Rubén Costas...

     (Verdad y Democracía Social-Verdes), Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

    , and Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .
  • Tarija
    Tarija Department
    Tarija is a department in Bolivia. It is located in south-eastern Bolivia bordering Argentina to the south and Paraguay to the east. According to the 2001 census, it has a population of 391,226 inhabitants. It has an area of 37.623 km²...

    : Path towards Change (Camino al Cambio (Alianza Departamental)), National Autonomous Power (Poder Autonómico Nacional), and Movement towards Socialism
    Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
    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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

    .


Including these parties, a total of 191 political forces contested municipal elections. Only the Movement towards Socialism
Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

 was involved in all 337 municipal contests. Other parties participating in large numbers of contests are as follows:
Party Number of Municipalities Mayors elected
Movement towards Socialism
Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)
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 left-wing, socialist, Bolivian political organization led by Evo Morales, founded in 1995...

 
337 231
Without Fear Movement
Without Fear Movement
Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

 
176 21
Movement for Sovereignty
Movement for Sovereignty
The Movement for Sovereignty is a leftist, indigenist Bolivian political party founded by dissidents of the Movement for Socialism . Its leader, and fourth-place candidate for Governor of La Paz department in the 2010 regional election is Lino Villca...

 
53 6
Front for Victory
Front for Victory
The Front for Victory is a Peronist political party and electoral alliance in Argentina, although it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former President Néstor Kirchner and the current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner belong to this party, located on the left-wing...

 
50 2
Patriotic Social Alliance  38 2
VERDES, Truth and Social Democracy
Truth and Social Democracy
Verdes is a political party in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia founded in 2009 and led by Rubén Costas...

 
33 15
National Unity Front
National Unity Front
The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,...

 
31
Broad Front of MNR
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

 and Autonomy for Bolivia
Autonomy for Bolivia
Autonomy for Bolivia is a political party based in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.The party was founded by Ruben Costas, so that he could stand for election to the prefect of Santa Cruz Department in the Bolivian general elections of 2005....

 
31 2
All for Santa Cruz  30
Social Alliance
Social Alliance
The Social Alliance is a Bolivian political party founded on 9 October 2005. The party grew out of the successful 2004 campaign of leader René Joaquino Cabrera for mayor of Potosí.-External links:**...

 
22 1
Beni First  19 8
MNR
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

-Pueblo
19 3
Popular Solidarity Alliance  16
Originary Popular Movement 15
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement is a Bolivian political party, perhaps the most important in the country during the 20th century. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won, in an alliance with the Free Bolivia Movement, 26.9% of the popular vote and 36 out of 130 seats in the...

 
15
Popular Consensus
Popular Consensus
Popular Consensus is a center-right Bolivian political party founded in 2009. CP founder Óscar Ortiz Antelo was President of the Senate of Bolivia from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009 national election, the party formed an electoral alliance with the National Unity Front, the Consensus Alliance for...

 
15 8
All for Cochabamba
All for Cochabamba
All for Cochabamba is an electoral alliance of the National Unity Front and Popular Consensus parties in the 2010 elections in Cochabamba department...

 
12 0

Governors

Leading candidates for governor of departments are:
  • Beni:Ernesto Suárez, Jessica Jordan (MAS)
  • Chuquisaca: Esteban Urquizu (MAS), Jhon Cava (Alianza Por Chuquisaca), Bernabé Paredes(MSM), Horacio Poppe (Falange 19 de Abril, F-19)
  • Cochabamba: María Casta Jaimes (MNR), Edmundo Novillo (MAS), Marvel Jose María Leyes (UN), José Ronald del Barco (MSM)
  • La Paz: César Cocarico (MAS), Simón Yampara (MSM), Carlos Hugo Laruta (Unidad Nacional-Plan Progreso para Bolivia; UN-PPB)
  • Oruro: Santos Tito (MAS), Iver Pereyra (MSM)
  • Pando: Paulo Bravo (CP), Luis Adolfo Flores (MAS), Egidio Puerta (MSM)
  • Potosí: Félix Gonzáles (MAS), Orlando Careaga (ACU)
  • Santa Cruz: Rubén Costas
    Rubén Costas
    Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera is the governor of Bolivia's Santa Cruz department for the Truth and Social Democracy party. Previously he served as prefect on behalf of the Autonomy for Bolivia party...

     (Verdes), Jerjes Justiniano (MAS)
  • Tarija: Mario Cossío (CC), Carlos Cabrera (MAS), Edwin Flores (PAN)

Mayors

Leading candidates for mayor of major cities are:
  • Cochabamba: Edwin Castellanos (MAS); Arturo Murillo (Todos Por Cochabamba, TPC)
  • La Paz: Luis Revilla (MSM), Elizabeth Salguero (MAS), Guillermo Fortún Suárez (ADN), Hugo San Martín (UN)
  • El Alto: Édgar Patana (MAS), Abel Mamani (MSM)
  • Sucre: Jaime Barron (PAÍS), Ana María Quinteros (MAS), Edgar Arraya (Nueva Alternativa Ciudadana, NAC), Fernando Rodríguez (Primero Sucre), Moisés Torres (Frente Para la Victoria, FPV)

Irregularities, alleged fraud, and additional voting

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.
  • In Santa Cruz, the Departmental Electoral Court annulled the results of 117 voting tables on April 11, mostly in the capital province of Andrés Ibáñez
    Andrés Ibáñez Province
    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....

    , but also in Warnes, Obispo Santistevan, Germán Busch, Cordillera, Guarayos, Ñuflo de Chávez, Vallegrande, Chiquitos, Ichilo, and other locations. 25,124 voters are entitled to a revote, about 2.7% of the department's total electorate. The president of the Court declared "We are going to repeat these acts because there was crime. The quantity of votes was altered and modified; some one interfered in the act, and that is a crime." The pro-MAS Departmental Worker's Central (Central Obrero Departamental) is calling for a revote in the entire department.
  • In Beni, the MAS has alleged fraud, including at the electoral table of its candidate, Jessica Jordan.The Departmental Electoral Court has not annulled any results, and fraud accusations are being considered by the prosecutor's office.
  • In La Paz, the Departmental Electoral Court found irregularities in 27 electoral tables, where the number of recorded votes exceeded the number of voters, although often by only one or two votes. These tables were annulled and will be re-voted. Officials considered both mathematical errors on the part of vote counters and fraud to be possible explanations.
  • In Pando, the Departmental Electoral Court announced on April 7 that it will conduct a re-vote of 5 voting tables. Those tables are located in the municipalities of Filadelfia (1), El Sena (3), and Nueva Esperanza (1). Opposition senator Eva Gonzales, of Plan Progreso para Bolivia, has called for 18 tables to be re-voted due to electoral fraud.
  • One table in Oruro will be subject to a re-vote.
  • Due to a tie, there will be a runoff for the departmental assembly member from Villamontes in the Chaco region.
  • In the municipality of Pailón, an initial tie between Armando Mamani (of MAS) and Luis Alberto Ruiz (of Todos por Santa Cruz) was broken on 19 April, by the reinstatement of 5 votes for Ruiz by the National Electoral Court. This brought the margin to 1,284-1,279 in Ruiz's favor. The MAS candidate has announced plans to press to change the outcome through a judicial complaint as well as a road blockade.

Departmental results

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
Rubén Costas
Rubén Armando Costas Aguilera is the governor of Bolivia's Santa Cruz department for the Truth and Social Democracy party. Previously he served as prefect on behalf of the Autonomy for Bolivia party...

 of the Greens in Santa Cruz, and Mario Cossío of the Path towards Change in Tarija.

Complete vote totals are as follows:

Mayors results

As of 12 April, MAS-IPSP had won the Mayor's race in 229 of the country's 337 municipalities
Municipalities of Bolivia
Municipalities in Bolivia are administrative divisions of the entire national territory governed by local elections. Municipalities are the third level of administrative divisions, below departments and provinces. Some of the provinces consist of only one municipality...

. However, among major cities (the departmental capitals plus El Alto
El Alto
At one time merely a suburb of adjacent La Paz, Bolivia, on the Altiplano highlands, the city of El Alto is today one of Bolivia's largest and fastest-growing urban centers. As of the 2001 census, the population was 649,958. In 2010, the population may be nearly 900,000, or more. The city contains...

) it won just three, Cochabamba, Cobija (Pando Department), and El Alto. Without Fear Movement
Without Fear Movement
Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

 candidates will be Mayors of La Paz (Luis Revilla) and Oruro. Regional candidates won in the following major cities: Jaime Barrón
Jaime Barrón
Jaime Barrón Poveda is former mayor of the city of Sucre, Bolivia, representing the Pact of Social Integration political party, which is closely aligned with the Inter-Institutional Committee of Chuquisaca. Following his election in the April 4, 2010 regional elections, Barrón was sworn in as...

 (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.

Other municipal results are as follows:
  • In Beni department, Beni First won 8 of the 19 mayor's races, including the capital, Trinidad. The MAS-IPSP also won the race for mayor in 8 municipalities. The MNR-Pueblo alliance won the remaining three races.
  • In Chuquisaca department, MAS-IPSP won 23 of the 29 mayor's races. The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     won in 3 municipalities: Culpina, Las Carreras, and Huacaya. Pact of Social Integration
    Pact of Social Integration
    The Pact of Social Integration is a local political party in Sucre and several other municipalities of Chuquisaca department, Bolivia. Party member Aydeé Nava is a former mayor of the city and Jaime Barrón Poveda is its mayor-elect....

     (PAÍS) won the capital, Sucre. LIDER won in Huacareta and NA-C in Monteagudo.
  • In Cochabamba department , the MAS-IPSP won mayor's races in 40 of the 47 municipalities, and a council majority in 39. In the capital, MAS-IPSP and All for Cochabamba
    All for Cochabamba
    All for Cochabamba is an electoral alliance of the National Unity Front and Popular Consensus parties in the 2010 elections in Cochabamba department...

     each hold 5 of the 11 council seats, with the last belonging to Front for Victory
    Front for Victory
    The Front for Victory is a Peronist political party and electoral alliance in Argentina, although it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former President Néstor Kirchner and the current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner belong to this party, located on the left-wing...

    . The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     won the mayor's office in 3 municipalities, Colomi, Kuchumuela and Tolata, and has council members in 23 municipalities. MAS-IPSP holds the council majority in Colomi. Unity New Hope won the mayor's office in Quillacollo
    Quillacollo Municipality
    Quillacollo Municipality is the first municipal section of the Quillacollo Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Quillacollo. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 104,206 inhabitants.- Subdivision :...

    , as well as 5 seats on the council, joined by 5 MAS-IPSP council members, and one from Front for Victory
    Front for Victory
    The Front for Victory is a Peronist political party and electoral alliance in Argentina, although it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former President Néstor Kirchner and the current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner belong to this party, located on the left-wing...

    . The Indígena Martín Uchu movement won the mayor's race and five of seven council seats in Punata
    Punata Municipality
    Punata Municipality is the first municipal section of the Punata Province in the Cochabamba Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Punata. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had 26,140 inhabitants.- Cantons :...

    . The ARI grouping won the mayor's seat and two of five council seats in San Benito (2 belong to MAS-IPSP; 1 to All for Cochabamba). The PUN grouping won both the mayor's race and a 3 of 5 council majority in Pasorapa. Pasorapa mayor elect Cintia Guisela Ávila and Toco mayor elect Janeth Flores Ferrufino are the only two women to head municipal governments. In accordance with the law of alternation among candidates, there are 272 women and 275 men among the council members.
  • In La Paz department, the MAS-IPSP won the race for mayor in 58 municipalities: Achocalla, Ancoraimes, Santiago de Huata, Caquiaviri, Comanche, Charaña, Waldo Ballivián, Nazacara de Pacajes, Santiago de Callapa, Puerto Acosta, Mocomoco, Chuma, Aucapata, Guanay, Tacacoma, Tipuani, Teoponte, Pelechuco, Viacha, Guaqui, Tiwanaku, Desaguadero, Jesús de Machaca, Luribay, Yaco, Cairoma, Quime, Colquiri, Choca, Licoma Pampa, Irupana, Yanacachi, Palos Blancos, Laja, Batallas, Sica Sica, Ayo Ayo, Calamarca, Patacamaya, Colquencha, Collana, Coroico, Coripata, Ixiamas, San Buenaventura, Charazani, Curva, Copacabana, San Pedro de Tiquina, San Pedro de Curahuara Papel Pampa, Chacarilla, Santiago de Machaca, Catacora, Caranavi, Alto Beni and El Alto. The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     won in 7 municipalities: La Paz, Humanata, Quiabaya, Mapiri, Apolo, Malla and Tito Yupanqui. The Movement for Sovereignty
    Movement for Sovereignty
    The Movement for Sovereignty is a leftist, indigenist Bolivian political party founded by dissidents of the Movement for Socialism . Its leader, and fourth-place candidate for Governor of La Paz department in the 2010 regional election is Lino Villca...

     won in 6 municipalities: Achacachi, Mecapaca, Escoma, Sorata, Combaya, and Pucarani. The Patriotic Social Alliance won in the two municipalities of Ayata and Puerto Pérez. The Departmental Association of Coca Growers won in the two municipalities of Chulumani y Cajuata. The Front for Victory
    Front for Victory
    The Front for Victory is a Peronist political party and electoral alliance in Argentina, although it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former President Néstor Kirchner and the current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner belong to this party, located on the left-wing...

     won in the two municipalities of Inquisivi y Sapahaqui. Other organizations won one municipality each: TP-A in La Asunta, Cumi in Calacoto, TS in Puerto Carabuco, CAOSAM in San Andrés de Machaca, and CAOTM in Taraco. Just 21 women contested for mayor in the 85 municipalities, and only five were elected.
  • In Oruro department, MAS-IPSP won the mayor's office in 31 of the 35 municipalities. The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     won three, including the capital, Oruro.
  • In Pando department, Popular Consensus
    Popular Consensus
    Popular Consensus is a center-right Bolivian political party founded in 2009. CP founder Óscar Ortiz Antelo was President of the Senate of Bolivia from 2008 to 2010. In the 2009 national election, the party formed an electoral alliance with the National Unity Front, the Consensus Alliance for...

     won 8 of the 15 mayor's races. MAS-IPSP won the remaining seven, including the capital, Cobija. Ana Lucía Reis
    Ana Lucía Reis
    Ana Lucía Reis is a Bolivian politician, Mayor of Cobija, and owner of an ecological hotel. She is affiliated with the Movement for Socialism but had been a Congressional deputy representing the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, elected in 2002 and 2005. She won the 2010 mayoral election in...

    , an environmentalist
    Environmentalism
    Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...

     and former Congressional Deputy affiliated with the MNR, is the new mayor of Cobija.
  • In Potosí department, MAS-IPSP won the mayor's office in 34 of the 40 municipalities. The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     won three. Social Alliance
    Social Alliance
    The Social Alliance is a Bolivian political party founded on 9 October 2005. The party grew out of the successful 2004 campaign of leader René Joaquino Cabrera for mayor of Potosí.-External links:**...

     won the capital, Potosí.
  • In Santa Cruz department, MAS-IPSP won the mayor's office in 25 of the 56 municipalities. Truth and Social Democracy
    Truth and Social Democracy
    Verdes is a political party in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia founded in 2009 and led by Rubén Costas...

     (VERDES) won 15 mayor's races. The Broad Front (MNR-APB) won three. Two mayor's races were won by the Chiquitana Indigenous Organization (Organización Indígena Chiquitana; OICH). The Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement
    Without Fear Movement is a Progressive political party in Bolivia. MSM was founded on March 1, 1999.The leader of the party, Juan del Granado, has been mayor of La Paz since 2000...

     and several local political forces–SOL, NEGRO, VOCES, LIDER, SAN, CHINO, MATICO, MANOS, and GH–each won one.
  • In Tarija department, MAS-IPSP won 5 of the 11 mayor's races: : Caraparí, El Puente, San Lorenzo, Yunchará, and Padcaya. Six other political forces each won one: UNIR in the capital, Path Towards Change in Concepción, MAR in Bermejo, PAN in Yacuiba, RHP in Villa Montes, and ARO in Entre Ríos.
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