2020 Valenzuelan presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Valenzuela on Sunday, 1 November 2020. Incumbent President Luis Ángel Escamilla is ineligable for a second term. LDP's candidate and the election's frontrunner Alexandria Sierra, a 33-year old Marxist student leader, won 60.17% of the votes, with runner-up Franco winning 16.12% of the votes, the best performance for a presidential candidate in the People's Democratic Alternative since the 2000 election. The result was noted for a continuing trend of left-wing victories in Latin America, which has been dubbed as a "new pink tide".

Electoral system
Valenzuelan presidents are elected for five-year terms using a two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, a runoff is held between the top two candidates, although it's not necessary anymore. The Vice President is elected on the same ticket as the President. Presidents are limited to a single five-year term and Article 185 of the constitution requires candidates to be Valenzuelan by birth and at least thirty years old.

In line with the constitution, Valenzuelans citizens by birth or by naturalization, aged eighteen or older have the right to vote. Several scenarios can cause the loss of the right to vote, as outlined in the constitution.

Campaign
The environmentalist, member of the National Assembly, and student leader from Catalina, Alexandria Sierra led the opinion polls and became the first female president, also the youngest president, and the first atheist president of Valenzuela. Her political party, Liberal Democratic Party, continues to use the Coalición del Progreso electoral coalition, which includes social movements, socialist, environmental and feminist associations.

Results
33-year old Marxist politician Alexandria Sierra became the first candidate in the history of the country since Emigdio Pavia's landslide victory in the 1995 election, scoring nearly 61 percent of the vote. This was the largest majority since 1995 (surpassing Pavia's 16,521,397, 56 percent of the total); as the opposition boycotted that election, it was the largest majority since 1975 for a competitive election.