The Panama Canal expansion Referendum was held in Panama on Sunday, October 22, 2006 and approved a proposal for the expansion of the Panama Canal. The question was: Do you approve the proposal for the construction of the third set of locks in the Panama Canal?

The 2006 General Elections of Ecuador were held on Sunday, October 15, 2006.

On July 2, 2006, the Constituent Assembly Elections were held, where the 255 members of the Constituent Assembly in charge of drafting a new constitution and deciding on the concept of regional autonomies in the future constitution through an Autonomy Referendum were elected.

On 2 July 2006, Boliva held a national referendum about departamental autonomy as part of the process of state decentralization and as an institutional response to the dire political and social crisis. The question was: Do you agree, within the framework of national unity, with giving the Constituent Assembly the binding mandate to establish a regime of departmental autonomy, applicable immediately after the promulgation of the new Political Constitution of the State in the Departments where this Referendum has a majority, so that their authorities are chosen directly by the citizens and receive from the National Government executive authority, administrative power and financial resources that the Political Constitution of the State and the Laws grant them?

On Sunday, July 2, 2006, federal elections were held in Mexico, in which the President of the Republic, 500 Deputies and 128 Senators of the lower and upper house, respectively, were elected; in addition, local elections were held in nine states of the country on the same day.

Parliamentary Elections were held in the Dominican Republic on May 16, 2006, in which 178 seats in the House of Representatives and 32 in the Senate were renewed.

For the 2006 Municipal Elections in the Dominican Republic, 151 síndicos (or mayors) were elected with their respective cabildos (for a total of 934 councilors).

The 2006 Colombian Legislative Elections were held on Sunday, March 12, 2006 and served to elect Senators and representatives to the House of Congress of the Republic of Colombia. The so-called political reform, established in Legislative Act No. 001 of 2003, was applied in these elections, radically changing the rules of the game and the way the seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives are distributed.

The Municipal Elections of El Salvador in 2006 were held on Sunday, March 12, 2006, during which the Municipal Councils of each of the 262 municipalities were defined.

The General Elections of Costa Rica 2006 were held on Sunday, February 5, 2006. The President was elected to govern the country during the four-year term from May 8, 2006 to May 8, 2010. In addition to electing the Deputies of the Legislative Assembly and the Councilors of the different Cantons of the country,