At 8% of the official count, the TSE highlights the number of valid votes with 65%, compared to 33% of blank and null votes

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) highlighted this Monday that, unlike the two previous judicial elections, in the elections of Sunday a high number of valid votes were registered, with 65% compared to 33% of white and null votes. The vice president of the electoral body, Francisco Vargas, told EL DEBER that this percentage of participation is 8% of the official count.

“About 65% are valid votes and about 33% are white and null votes. So, There are a greater number of votes towards the candidates in the race for the different instances (…) What makes this process different so far is the high number of valid votes, unlike 2011 and 2017,” Vargas highlighted.

In 2011, When the judicial proceedings were first held, 57% of voters voted white or null. While in 2017in the second judicial election, that percentage of nulls and whites increased at 65%.

The panorama is different up to 8% of the official count.

Likewise, Vargas specified that of the 33,019 electoral records, until 6:30 in the morning this Monday, 14,510 minutes are already in the possession of the departmental electoral courts, material that has been returned from the voting precincts.

With that number of minutes, up to the same time, close to 8% of the official vote count was reached. “2,438 electoral records have been read, counted and published. “It is the progress we have.”

Simultaneously, all the departmental electoral courts in the country installed their permanent full chamber on Monday night to carry out the official counting of votes, an act that is carried out with direct transmission on their social networks. It is expected that the final data will be known until Wednesday, December 18.

This Sunday the 15th, in Bolivia the judicial third parties, but partially. Only in Chuquisaca, La Paz, Oruro and Potosí, there were complete elections and voters were able to elect candidates for the TCP, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the Agro-Environmental Court (TA) and the Judicial Council (CM).

While in Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Tarija, Pando and Beni there were partial elections, by the Constitutional Sentence 0770/2024 of the TCP that declared void the call for the TCP and the TSJ. By this order, 28 candidates were expelled from the electoral contest: 14 for the TCP and 14 for the TSJ.

Beni and Pando did not elect judges to the TCP or the TSJ. In Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Tarija they did not vote for tribunes for the TCP, only the TSJ, CM and TA.