Bolivian presidential election, 1966

Bolivia held a general election on 3 July 1966, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Congress.

Presidential election results[1]

Presidential candidates Candidates for Vice President Party/Alliance Votes %
René Barrientos Ortuño (independent) Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (PSD) FRB 680,532 67.22
Bernardino Bilbao Rioja (FSB) Gonzalo Romero Álvarez-Garcia (FSB) CDC 138,054 13.64
Víctor Andrade Uzquiano (MNR) Rafael Otazo Vargas (MNR) MNR 88,099 08.70
Mario Díez de Medina (MNR-Paz) Mariano Baptista Gumucio (MNR-Paz) MNR-Paz 61,309 06.06
Felipe Iñíguez Medrano (PCB) Mario Miranda Pacheco (PCB) FLIN 33,054 03.26
Enrique Hertzog Garaizabal (PURS) Eduardo Montes y Montes (PL) AID 11,400 01.13
Valid votes 1,012,448 100.0
Invalid votes 90,503
Votes cast 1,102,951
Registered voters 1,270,611
Population 3,931,909

FRB – Front of the Bolivian Revolution (Frente de la Revolución Boliviana). Electoral alliance formed by
Popular Christian Movement, MPC;
Social Democratic Party, PSD;
Revolutionary Left Party, PIR;
Authentic Revolutionary Party, PRA.

CDC – Christian Democratic Community (Comunidad Democratica Cristiana). Electoral alliance formed by
Bolivian Socialist Falange, FSB;
National Association of Democratic Professions, ANPD;
Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, ADR.

MNR – Nationalist Revolutionary Movement.

MNR-Paz – Nationalist Revolutionary Movement- Víctor Paz Estenssoro.

FLIN – Liberation Front of the National Left (Frente de Liberación de Izquierda Nacional). Electoral alliance formed by
Communist Party of Bolivia, PCB.

AID – Democratic Institutionalist Alliance (Alianza Institucionalista Democrática). Electoral alliance formed by
Liberal Party, PL;
Republican Socialist Unity Party, PURS.

References

  1. ^ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.150.