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CAÑAR / CAÑAR — Municipal council

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Ecuador · CAÑAR / CAÑAR / CAÑAR · municipal · Municipal councilEC-C-3-240

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

Geography: CAÑAR / CAÑAR / CAÑAR
Next election: 2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event: next-51db064045a690c810d2d8ef
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 PACHAKUTIK40.8%
CAÑAR EMPRENDE 5-1730.2%
CAÑAR RENACE CONTIGO20.2%
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR4.6%
UNIDOS POR CAÑAR4.2%

Results for event-8106170f9f23de89233e64b7
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK	7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	10,790	40.8%	3	Recorded
CAÑAR EMPRENDE 5-17	1306ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	7,993	30.2%	2	Recorded
CAÑAR RENACE CONTIGO	1190ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	5,350	20.2%	2	Recorded
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR	231ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	1,214	4.6%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
UNIDOS POR CAÑAR	1153ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	1,125	4.2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK36.3%
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO29.3%
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES20.7%
CAÑAR EMPRENDE13.7%

Results for event-3c3f830b50f305ef698d83b1
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK	12ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	30,624	36.3%	3	Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO	1ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	24,705	29.3%	3	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES	22ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	17,493	20.7%	1	Recorded
CAÑAR EMPRENDE	636ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	11,556	13.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK40.0%
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS33.2%
PARTIDO AVANZA16.8%
ALIANZA CREO - PSP9.9%

Results for event-944176d0f03a38fa70a396af
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK	5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	30,053	40%	3	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS	3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	24,940	33.2%	3	Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA	6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	12,651	16.8%	1	Recorded
ALIANZA CREO - PSP	3002ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	7,447	9.9%	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

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

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.

As of

Electors

Notes

2026-08-11

44,131

Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.

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  "register_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "snapshot": "2026-08-11",
  "source_id": "SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION"
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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

Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-electorales-2023/?wpdmdl=39834 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019/?wpdmdl=20971 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-a-nivel-parroquial-2014/?wpdmdl=21133 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/distributivos-de-electores-2027/ · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2023.zip · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2023.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2019.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2014.sav · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2014.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE 2027 precinct and electorate distribution, cutoff 11 August 2026 · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE resolution PLE-CNE-1-31-7-2026: ordinary election call for 29 November 2026 · rights unknown

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “CAÑAR / CAÑAR — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-C-3-240. 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.