More than 94,000 members of Venezuela's ruling party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), voted to elect its new leadership on Sunday.
The election ran from 6:00 a.m. local time (1030 GMT) to 4:00 p.m. (2030 GMT), at 361 polling stations nationwide.
The poll, supervised by the National Electoral Council, will choose a total of 15 representatives to form the PSUV's new national leadership.
Among the candidates is current president Hugo Chavez, running for president of the PSUV, a union of Venezuela's existing socialist parties, which was formed in 2007 under the suggestion of Chavez.
He suggested the creation of the party union after winning the nation's presidential election on Dec. 3, 2006.
Three smaller left-wing parties, the Fatherland for All Party, the Venezuelan Communist Party and the Party Seeking Social Democracy (Podemos), refused to join the new union.
Podemos, which has seven legislative seats and three regional governors, had split from Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement, the ruling party led by Chavez before the PSUV was formed, because it disagreed with the December 2007 constitutional reform proposed by Chavez.
Source: Xinhua
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