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General elections were held in Bolivia on 14 July 1985. As no candidate for the presidency received over 50% of the vote, the National Congress was required to elect a President on 4 August. Although Hugo Banzer of Nationalist Democratic Action received the most public votes, Congress elected Víctor Paz Estenssoro of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement.
Congressional ballot
Only Hugo Banzer of Nationalist Democratic Action and Víctor Paz Estenssoro of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement contested the Congressional ballot. Whilst Banzer was only supported by his own party, Paz also received the votes of the Revolutionary Left Movement, the Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement-Vanguard, the Christian Democratic Party and the Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari. Socialist Party-1, the Bolivian Socialist Falange and the United People's Front did not support either candidate.