Bolivia will hold a presidential runoff on October 19 between centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz and conservative former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, after no candidate secured a decisive victory in the August 17 first-round vote.

A center-right senator and a right-wing ex-president will advance to a run-off for Bolivia's presidency after the first round of elections on Sunday, marking the end of two decades of leftist rule, preliminary official results showed.

Bolivia has entered a new stage in its life as a democracy after nearly two decades of dominance by the Movement for Socialism. In Sunday’s general elections, the ruling party suffered a collapse that stripped it of any chance to remain in power and left it clinging to survival as a political force with just over 3 percent of the vote.

Exit polls in Bolivia's presidential election show Centrist Senator Rodrigo Paz leading, with the ruling Movement for Socialism party facing significant defeat. Despite past president Evo Morales' call for a boycott,

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party