LATIN AMERICA

Helping companies
navigate complex elections.

As Latin America experiences one of the world’s greatest democratic expansions, monitoring its electoral processes is key to understanding policy trends, political and economic shifts, and anticipating risks and opportunities.

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Why Latin American
elections matter?

1. ECONOMIC RELEVANT

Latin America comprises 8% of the world’s population and represents 7% of global GDP.

2. ACTIVE SERVICE SECTOR

The service sector represents 60% of the region’s GDP and is the segment that employs the most workers.

3. AGING POPULATION

Life expectancy of the region’s citizens (75 years) imposes ever greater challenges to the provision of quality public services.

4. ROBUST MIDDLE CLASS

Latin America has a vast urban area (80%) and an expanding middle class (35%).

5. ENGAGED CIVIL SOCIETY

Between 2009 and 2019, anti- government demonstrations increased by about 17% per year, exceeding the world average (11.7%).

6. SOLID DEMOCRACIES

While corruption and political instability are key concerns for Latin Americans, 63% think democracy is the best regime.

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Between 2021 and 2024, the region will host 34 electoral processes.

2022

Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay will head to the polls.

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What we cover?

Elections in all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Presidential, legislative and constitutional elections, plebiscites and referendum.

In Brazil and Colombia, national and local elections.

Government transitions.

In 2022, Brazil and Colombia will hold
Latin America’s most important elections.

Prospectiva’s consultants will be covering such elections closely through our offices in Bogotá, Brasília, and São Paulo.

Brazil in focus

Brazilians will head to the polls to elect a new president and a vice-president, 540 members of Congress, 27 state governors, and 1.059 state representatives.

Brazil alone accounts for 33% of the entire population of Latin America (3% of the global population).

The number of registered voters in Brazil (148 million) is higher than the entire population of any other Latin American country.

Colombia in focus

Colombians will choose a new president and vice-president, renew the country’s 280 congressional seats, and elect 16 representatives from the Special Transitory Peace Circumscriptions.

The number of registered voters has risen 17% over the last three electoral cycles. In 2022, 38 million Colombians will be eligible to cast their vote (70% of the population).

For the first time in history, three major coalitions have been formed, from which a single candidate will emerge: one from the right, one from the center, and one from the left.

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The Road to Latin
American Elections

Key dates to keep in mind

2021

1. Argentina
2. Paraguay
3. Chile
4. Honduras
5. Nicaragua
6. Venezuela

2022

1. Brazil
2. Colombia
3. Costa Rica
4. Nicaragua
5. Peru
6. Trinidad and Tobago
7. Venezuela

2023

1. Ecuador
2. Cuba
3. Antigua and Barbuda
4. Grenada
5. Paraguay
6. Barbados
7. Guatemala
8. Argentina
9. Colombia

2024

1. Costa Rica
2. Belize
3. Panama
4. Dominican Republic
5. Mexico
6. Uruguay
7. Brazil
8. Chile
9. Dominica
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keep up with these events

Our election portfolio is structured along three axes:

Electoral monitoring
and analysis.

Debates with our
experts.

Customized
intelligence.