Montevideo Participatory Budget and Its Online Vote (Montevideo Participa)
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Montevideo's participatory budget went online in 2018, and online votes reached 7,942 in 2023. Building what residents chose is slower: five of 54 works from 2021 were done by April 2023.
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Montevideo's participatory budget lets residents propose works and social services for their area and then decide by secret ballot which ones are paid for from the Intendencia's budget; the vote is binding, and anyone aged 16 or over can propose and vote. It first ran in 1990, and its cycles now take place every two years. Since 2018 residents can also vote online, on CONSUL, the open-source participation software Montevideo adopted after a delegation from Madrid visited in 2017; casting a participatory-budget vote online requires a level-3 verified account through AGESIC, Uruguay's e-government agency. The platform was renamed from Montevideo Decide to Montevideo Participa after a new local government took office in 2020. Online votes rose from 602 in 2018 to 3,256 in 2021 and 7,942 in 2023.
📊 Impact
Delivery has lagged behind the vote. A 2023 column by Alejandro Andrada, a community activist from Casavalle, cited figures reported in 2021: 40 of the 382 proposals approved between 2006 and 2018 were still unfinished. By his count in April 2023, five of the 54 works chosen in the 2021 cycle had been completed.
🎓 Lesson
A digital ballot widens who can vote but does not touch the slower half of a participatory budget. Montevideo's online votes grew in each cycle from 2018 to 2023, while the works residents chose kept arriving late; residents judge the budget by the works, not by the ballot.
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lets residents propose works and social services for their area and then decide by secret ballot which ones are paid for from the Intendencia's budget
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the vote is binding
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anyone aged 16 or over can propose and vote
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It first ran in 1990
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its cycles now take place every two years
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Since 2018 residents can also vote online
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CONSUL, the open-source participation software Montevideo adopted after a delegation from Madrid visited in 2017
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casting a participatory-budget vote online requires a level-3 verified account through AGESIC, Uruguay's e-government agency
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renamed from Montevideo Decide to Montevideo Participa after a new local government took office in 2020
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Online votes rose from 602 in 2018 to 3,256 in 2021 and 7,942 in 2023
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A 2023 column by Alejandro Andrada, a community activist from Casavalle
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40 of the 382 proposals approved between 2006 and 2018 were still unfinished
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By his count in April 2023, five of the 54 works chosen in the 2021 cycle had been completed
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Montevideo's online votes grew in each cycle from 2018 to 2023
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the works residents chose kept arriving late
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Intendencia de Montevideo with the city's municipalities; the online platform runs on CONSUL Democracy software, maintained with the Gran Canaria company Usabi
- Actor types
- city-government
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- The works and services chosen are paid for from the Intendencia de Montevideo's budget; the amount per cycle is not stated in the sources read.
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3 source dossiers
Catálogo de Participación Ciudadana (gub.uy) — Presupuesto Participativo - Montevideo
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- Name not classified · gub.uy
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2017-12-04
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- 2024-04-17
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- 2026-11-07
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Entry in the national catalogue of citizen-participation bodies, maintained for the Intendencia. It describes the participatory budget as the right of Montevideo's residents to propose and then decide by secret ballot works and social services financed from the Intendencia's budget; the decision is binding, and everyone over 16 can submit proposals and vote.
Consul Democracy — Use cases: Montevideo (Montevideo Participa)
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- 2026-11-07
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Use-case page of the CONSUL Democracy project, quoting two Intendencia officials. It says CONSUL came to Montevideo after a Madrid delegation's visit in 2017, became the Montevideo Decide platform, and was renamed Montevideo Participa after the new local government of 2020; participatory budget cycles take place every two years; online votes were 602 in 2018, 3,256 in 2021 and 7,942 in 2023; voting requires a level-3 account verified through AGESIC; the platform is maintained with the company Usabi.
Montevideo Portal — Alejandro Andrada, Opinión: Los desafíos del Presupuesto Participativo de Montevideo (23 Apr 2023)
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- Name not classified · montevideo.com.uy
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2023-04-23
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- 2026-11-07
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Opinion column by a community activist. It says the participatory budget was first implemented in Montevideo in 1990, that figures reported in 2021 showed 40 of 382 proposals approved between 2006 and 2018 still unfinished, and that five of the 54 works of the 2021 cycle were finished when he wrote; it argues the process has lost its link to zonal development plans.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Montevideo Participatory Budget and Its Online Vote (Montevideo Participa)” — Montevideo, Uruguay. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/montevideo-participatory-budget/ (last verified 2026-11-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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