Historical trajectory of bipartisanship in municipal elections: total predominance despite national crises
By Marcos Perez Talia
On October 10, 2021, Paraguay will hold its seventh municipal elections since the fall of the stronista dictatorship. These elections were originally scheduled for November 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed to 2021. This article aims to describe the dynamics of the electoral results of the six previous municipal elections. The data shows an interesting sub-national bipartisan resistance to eventual national political crises that may have put the Colorado and Liberal parties’ centrality in the municipalities at risk.