Latin America: 5 Elections in 2025

In 2025, Latin America will hold four presidential elections: in Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras, as well as legislative elections in Argentina.

Let’s start with Argentina, where elections are scheduled for October 26, 2025 for the midterms, which will elect half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the seats in the Senate. Obviously, it will also be a sort of referendum on the presidency of Milei, and the vote could lead to new seats in support of the president (who today cannot count on a majority of parliamentarians) and, as a consequence, an acceleration of the deep program of liberal reforms launched in recent months.

Ecuador will vote in the February 9 presidential election (with a possible runoff on April 13). Young businessman president Daniel Noboa, after a two-year mandate in which he succeeded the outgoing Guillermo Lasso, is seeking to establish himself in a country with an ongoing spiral of violence that seems endless. During the campaign that led to Noboa’s election, there was even an assassination of one of the candidates, Fernando Villavicencio. The mandate of the current President has been characterized by the imposition of a state of “internal armed conflict.” Noboa will be opposed by Socialist Rep. Luisa Magdalena Gonzalez Alcivar, who is linked to former president-in-exile in Belgium Rafael Correa.

Bolivia will go to the polls on August 10. Local politics is experiencing internal conflict that has split the ruling party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS). President Luis Arce opposes former President Evo Morales. The two are competing for the party and the leadership of the country. There is a Constitutional Court ruling against Morales that prohibits a third mandate, and he is under investigation for abuse and trafficking of minors. The denunciation speech led to street clashes and road blockades organized by Morales supporters. The unrest that could reach a climax if the institutions finally ban the former president from running for office. A possible second round is scheduled for October. 130 deputies and 36 senators will also be elected.

In Chile, incumbent President Gabriel Boric, a center-leftist, may not run for a second consecutive mandate, according to sources reported by Italian news agency Agenzia Nova; the coalition may choose to nominate former President Michelle Bachelet, while former Providencia mayor Evelyn Matthei could be the conservative candidate.

Finally, Honduras, where presidential elections are scheduled for November 30, 2025, and 128 parliamentarians and various local administrators will also be elected on that occasion. Xiomara Castro, an ally of Cuba and Venezuela, is the current president, while defense minister Rixi Moncata and Ana Garcia, wife of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, are among the contenders to lead the country.