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ARAJUNO / PASTAZA — Municipal council

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · ARAJUNO / PASTAZA / PASTAZA · municipal · Municipal councilEC-C-16-881

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Council and parish votes before 2023 are candidate marks; 2023 is a closed-list ballot. Do not compare these vote shares as a continuous series. The 29 November 2026 ordinary cohort is reconciled to the CNE register. August precinct-distribution electors are a dated administrative count, not historical turnout or votes. Territorial boundary comparability, intervening outcomes and current control remain separate checks.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
ARAJUNO / PASTAZA / PASTAZA
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-a461d18cec8491985208f5df
Registry qualification
Qualified in source register

2. How certain is that date?

2026-11-29 is formally called. Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2023-02-05

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK40.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INTEGRACIÓN, PROGRESO Y CAMBIO MIPC19.7%
  • UNIDOS POR PASTAZA19.1%
  • ¡ÁNIMO PASTAZA!10.9%
  • PASTAZA SOMOS TODOS8.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA1.4%
Results for event-76c595ef2d52aa566762cd33
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,92140.1%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INTEGRACIÓN, PROGRESO Y CAMBIO MIPC151ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202394619.7%1Recorded
UNIDOS POR PASTAZA1398ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202391819.1%1Recorded
¡ÁNIMO PASTAZA!1009ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202352110.9%1Recorded
PASTAZA SOMOS TODOS1247ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20234218.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023681.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK30.1%
  • ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO UNIDOS POR PASTAZA LISTA 61-PSC LISTA 623.6%
  • EL DESARROLLO CONTINUA22.4%
  • UNION ECUATORIANA13.4%
  • PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE9.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INTEGRACIÓN, PROGRESO Y CAMBIO MIPC1.4%
Results for event-6c2faa569f2a50faee3fe9dd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK12ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,81930.1%1Recorded
ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO UNIDOS POR PASTAZA LISTA 61-PSC LISTA 6554ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,20723.6%1Recorded
EL DESARROLLO CONTINUA595ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,09522.4%2Recorded
UNION ECUATORIANA51ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,25113.4%1Recorded
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE158ecuador/Sed7b513864/20198579.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INTEGRACIÓN, PROGRESO Y CAMBIO MIPC176ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191321.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK32.3%
  • JUNTOS POR LA DIGNIDAD DE PASTAZA24.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA16.5%
  • ALIANZA PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA LISTA 3 - MOVIMIENTO CREO LISTA 2115.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO UNIDOS POR PASTAZA11.2%
Results for event-e17bd89c347063ccf3f777fd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,37032.3%2Recorded
JUNTOS POR LA DIGNIDAD DE PASTAZA16007ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,81624.8%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUMA13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,20716.5%1Recorded
ALIANZA PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA LISTA 3 - MOVIMIENTO CREO LISTA 2116005ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,12315.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO UNIDOS POR PASTAZA16002ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201482111.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Withheld

Unknown0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Comparison unavailable · Council and parish votes before 2023 are candidate marks; 2023 is a closed-list ballot. Do not compare these vote shares as a continuous series. The 29 November 2026 ordinary cohort is reconciled to the CNE register. August precinct-distribution electors are a dated administrative count, not historical turnout or votes. Territorial boundary comparability, intervening outcomes and current control remain separate checks.

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=null, oldest_gap=null, previous_gap=null

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Six named standalone categories in CNE returns, including explicit short/expanded CREO, SUMA and Alianza PAIS labels. Mixed alliances, successor movements and other parties stay Other. This does not attribute Revolución Ciudadana votes to Alianza PAIS. Multi-mark and otherwise ineligible histories remain excluded. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Latest interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[null,null,null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Six named standalone categories in CNE returns, including explicit short/expanded CREO, SUMA and Alianza PAIS labels. Mixed alliances, successor movements and other parties stay Other. This does not attribute Revolución Ciudadana votes to Alianza PAIS. Multi-mark and otherwise ineligible histories remain excluded. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Previous interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[null,null,null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Six named standalone categories in CNE returns, including explicit short/expanded CREO, SUMA and Alianza PAIS labels. Mixed alliances, successor movements and other parties stay Other. This does not attribute Revolución Ciudadana votes to Alianza PAIS. Multi-mark and otherwise ineligible histories remain excluded. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Both intervals mean · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[null,null,null]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

No officeholder observation supplied.

Electoral register observations

Dated elector counts stay distinct from turnout and are not summed across overlapping contests.

Register observations
As ofElectorsNotes
2026-08-116,838
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 881,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 16,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 6838,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-C-16-881",
  "name": "ARAJUNO / PASTAZA",
  "office": "Municipal council",
  "precinct_rows": [
    3114,
    3124,
    3125,
    3126,
    3137,
    3138,
    3142,
    3143,
    3156,
    3160,
    3179,
    3184
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 7,
  "register_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "snapshot": "2026-08-11",
  "source_id": "SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION"
}

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

Council and parish votes before 2023 are candidate marks; 2023 is a closed-list ballot. Do not compare these vote shares as a continuous series. The 29 November 2026 ordinary cohort is reconciled to the CNE register. August precinct-distribution electors are a dated administrative count, not historical turnout or votes. Territorial boundary comparability, intervening outcomes and current control remain separate checks. The ordinary register is reconciled: 23 prefectures, 222 mayoralties, 222 municipal councils and 825 parish boards match the signed July 2026 call/list and August CNE codes. Borbón’s mayor/council and Miss Ecuador’s parish board are separate March 2027 first contests. Historical boundary comparability and some new-parish final returns remain open. Calacalí has final completion evidence but only preliminary rounded shares and secondary seat affiliations. Six first-election party vectors and elected rosters are recovered for the four 2024 parishes and Sevilla Don Bosco in 2025. Four small ballot-total discrepancies remain explicit. Shuar Pastaza remains preliminary. Fifteen July/August parish electorate differences are retained as dated observations.

    Sources

    Cite this record

    Center for Digital Democracy. “ARAJUNO / PASTAZA — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-C-16-881. Sources: ecuador--url-e0444af67a46db0c3c537d63, ecuador--url-afbb9a85cc78f50c79da76d6, ecuador--url-5b82aaaec7b8c8ce1fd49557, ecuador--url-e67940bdf0f1387ed11ac338, ecuador--Sa5c026518f, ecuador--Sadcc145662, ecuador--Sed7b513864, ecuador--Sf4e4f8e986, ecuador--S09da2a23f3, ecuador--S5c50f97474, ecuador--SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION, ecuador--SA40-EC-CALL.