LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivians voted on Sunday in an unprecedented presidential runoff between two conservative, capitalist candidates , ushering in a new political era after 20 years of almost continuous rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party.

The race was in a dead heat as voters, looking for a leader to lift them out of their country’s worst economic crisis in decades, chose between former right-wing President Jorge “Tuto" Quiroga and centrist Sen. Rodrigo Paz.

As tens of thousands of polling stations shuttered across the country, workers counted votes by reading paper ballots aloud while others transcribed the results to transmit electronically to the Supreme Electoral Court, which said it hoped to be able to release preliminary results after 8 p.m. local time.

Since 2023,

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