Electoral law quota details

(EQUIVALENCE OF CONDITIONS). Bolivian intercultural democracy guarantees gender equity and equal opportunities for women and men. The competent electoral authorities are obliged to comply with this, in accordance with the following basic criteria:

a) The lists of candidates for Senators, Deputies, Departmental and Regional Assembly members, Municipal Councillors, and other elective authorities, titular and substitute, shall respect gender parity and alternation between women and men, in such a way that there is a female incumbent candidate, followed by a male incumbent candidate; a male substitute candidate, followed by a female substitute candidate, in succession.

(b) In cases of election of a single candidate in a constituency, gender equality, parity and alternation shall be expressed in terms of incumbents and alternates. In the total of such constituencies at least fifty percent (50%) of the incumbent candidates shall be women.

c) The lists of the candidates of indigenous nations and peoples originally peasants, prepared in accordance with their own rules and procedures, they will respect the principles mentioned in the preceding paragraph. (Article 11 - Electoral Regime Law)

(ELECTION OF PLURINOMINAL DEPUTIES). … II. The lists of candidates to Deputies Plurinominal, incumbent and substitutes will be prepared with gender equivalence, in accordance with the provisions of article 11 of this Law. In case of an odd number, preference will be given to women. (Article 58)