Voters in Chile, Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras and Ecuador will go to the polls this year 2025 to decide the next presidents and also choose the occupants of the national assemblies. Argentina and Venezuela will also have voting, but to elect parliamentarians and, in the case of Venezuela, also governors and mayors. Mexico will hold direct elections for the Judiciary. 
In total, 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to hold elections this year, whether presidential, legislative, regional or for the judiciary. The first Latin American presidential election is that of Ecuador, with the first round on February 9th and, if necessary, the second round on April 13th.
Current Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa is seeking re-election after a buffer term of 18 months. Identified with the right, Noboa faces again, among other candidates, the member of the Citizen Revolution party, lawyer Luisa González, from the center-left party of former president Rafael Correia.
In August, it is voters’ turn to go to the polls to elect the president of Bolivia, as well as the country’s Legislative Branch. Voting was scheduled for August 17, 2025. If there is a second round, voting will be on October 19.
The Bolivian political scene continues to be convulsed by a dispute between the country’s current president, Luis Arce, and former president Evo Morales, who are vying for control of the ruling party MAS [Movimento ao Socialismo].
Processes
Morales is the target of legal proceedings and is trying to qualify for a new term. The Constitutional Court of Bolivia, the country’s highest judicial body, has already issued a ruling against Evo’s new re-election.
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In Honduras, the election is scheduled for November 30th. Before that, next March, Honduran parties will hold primaries to choose candidates. The current president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, from the Livre party, identified as left-wing, hopes to appoint her Defense Minister, Rixi Moncada, as her successor.
Among the names of the Honduran opposition in the dispute are Ana García, former first lady of Juan Orlando Hernández, president extradited to the United States and sentenced – in July 2024 – for drug trafficking to 45 years in prison.
Chile also goes to the polls in November. The first round will be on November 16th. If no candidate wins the first time, a second round will be held on December 14th.
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Current center-left president Gabriel Boric cannot run for re-election and it has not yet been decided who he will support. Meanwhile, former president Michele Bachelet’s name has been mentioned in debates for the 2025 presidential election.
The second-place finisher in the 2021 Chilean elections, far-right politician José Antonio Kast, defender of the Pinochet dictatorship, is seen as a strong candidate for the presidential seat.
Guyana will also go to the polls to elect its president and its national assembly in December this year amid tensions with its neighbor Venezuela, which claims part of the territory now occupied by the former British colony.
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Haiti
A different situation exists in Haiti where, due to the lack of security, there are doubts about the possibility of elections this year. With around 80% of the capital Port-au-Prince controlled by armed gangs, one of the main objectives of the provisional government is to make elections viable.
The Provisional Presidential Committee that governs Haiti created, in September 2024, a provisional electoral council with the aim of establishing conditions for the first election in almost ten years, according to the Reuters news agency.
Haitian authorities have indicated the possibility of an election later this year, with a second round in early 2026.
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Other elections
Another country going to the polls this year is Argentina, which must choose 127 of the 257 deputies, as well as 24 of the 72 senators. Scheduled for October 26th, the vote will be a test for the current ultra-right president Javier Milei.
Venezuela has also called parliamentary and regional elections for this year, but a date has not yet been set. Mexico, in turn, will hold elections for the judiciary for the first time after a reform that allows direct voting for judges and Supreme Court ministers. Elections for the Mexican judiciary are scheduled for June.
Other Latin American and Caribbean nations that will hold legislative or regional elections this year are: Suriname, Uruguay, Jamaica, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago, according to a survey by the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (Celag).
