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QUITO / PICHINCHA — Municipal council
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Ecuador · PICHINCHA

QUITO / PICHINCHA — Municipal council

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.

Election expectation2026-11-29
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

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.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4

Ordinary election register

Ordinary office verified: July 2026 call and August CNE territorial register. CNE province / canton / parish codes: 17 / 60.

The precinct distribution dated 11 August 2026 assigns 2,067,791 electors to this territory. CNE distribution. This administrative count is separate from historical votes and turnout. Territorial totals overlap across office types.

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2023-02-05 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Valid votes for candidates/lists

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA372,60331.78%7
JUNTOS POR LA GENTE166,20114.17%4
UIO, UNIDOS INCLUYENTES Y ORGANIZADOS157,16413.40%4
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA115,0769.81%3
QUITO VUELVE100,0648.53%1
VA POR TI93,5597.98%2
MOVIMIENTO TODOS35,5023.03%0
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR31,5162.69%0
ORDEN Y SEGURIDAD PARA QUITO27,2582.32%0
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO25,9752.22%0
PARTIDO AVANZA25,8812.21%0
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES21,7591.86%0

Result source · Seat source

2019-03-24 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Candidate vote marks, not unique ballots

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
MOVIMIENTO F. COMPROMISO SOCIAL1,168,47622.44%9
UNION ECUATORIANA627,18112.05%3
MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACION614,45611.80%3
ALIANZA CREO 21 - AHORA 65524,93610.08%2
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA488,2999.38%3
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO240,6354.62%0
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL PODEMOS193,1173.71%0
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA161,8523.11%0
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ137,8382.65%0
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA124,8482.40%0
MOVIMIENTO ACCION DEMOCRATICA ECUATORIANA, ADE101,0331.94%0
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK100,2541.93%0
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE96,8451.86%0
ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA - VIVE - SUR95,3521.83%1
ALIANZA ECUATORIANO UNIDO-PARTIDO SOCIALISTA94,9631.82%0
UNIDAD POPULAR79,3411.52%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP64,3371.24%0
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO63,0161.21%0
MOVIMIENTO TODOS54,1041.04%0
MOVIMIENTO JUSTICIA SOCIAL53,1631.02%0
MOVIMIENTO INCLUYENTE DE OPORTUNIDADES Y EQUIDAD SOCIAL, MIOS41,9570.81%0
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO41,7090.80%0
FUERZA.EC39,1440.75%0

Result source · Seat source

2014-02-23 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Candidate vote marks, not unique ballots

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS2,650,70343.00%11
ALIANZA SUMA-VIVE2,284,31837.06%9
MOVIMIENTO CREO613,3549.95%1
PARTIDO AVANZA166,0672.69%0
PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO117,9971.91%0
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK91,1621.48%0
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"81,3001.32%0
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO52,7770.86%0
PARTIDO RENOVADOR INSTITUCIONAL ACCION NACIONAL42,2460.69%0
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO32,0920.52%0
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO31,9520.52%0

Result source · Seat source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record EC-C-17-60.