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Office briefing

SAN RAFAEL / OTAVALO / IMBABURA — Parish board

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Ecuador · SAN RAFAEL / OTAVALO / IMBABURA / IMBABURA · other · Parish boardEC-J-10-35-3630

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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
SAN RAFAEL / OTAVALO / IMBABURA / IMBABURA
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-b183e972dbb5cff4d371e001
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2026-11-29 is expected (not 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 PACHAKUTIK32.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA29.9%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA22.1%
  • MUÉVETE IMBABURA16.0%
Results for event-d90bb5ea675d0a26eac5ada5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,05432%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202398429.9%1Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA101ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202372622.1%1Recorded
MUÉVETE IMBABURA1077ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202352516%1Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO ÚNETE, UNIÓN, ÉTICA, TRANSPARENCIA Y EQUIDAD24.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK22.8%
  • ALIANZA TODOS POR OTAVALO20.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO SOMOS LIBRES10.8%
  • ALIANZA UNIDOS POR OTAVALO7.8%
  • ALIANZA PAÍS LISTA 35 MINGA LISTA 1047.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO COMPROMISO4.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES2.3%
Results for event-e7306642826ac22924bdbd90
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO ÚNETE, UNIÓN, ÉTICA, TRANSPARENCIA Y EQUIDAD181ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,82424.9%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK12ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,58922.8%2Recorded
ALIANZA TODOS POR OTAVALO621ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,27520.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SOMOS LIBRES190ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,22510.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA UNIDOS POR OTAVALO650ecuador/Sed7b513864/20198807.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA PAÍS LISTA 35 MINGA LISTA 104773ecuador/Sed7b513864/20198167.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO COMPROMISO216ecuador/Sed7b513864/20194634.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES22ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192652.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • AVANZA - FUERZA CIUDADANA LISTAS 8 - 6137.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK27.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS23.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO12.5%
Results for event-554a0d9f76065d5e3ec1be59
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
AVANZA - FUERZA CIUDADANA LISTAS 8 - 6110007ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20144,14137.4%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,99227%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,56223.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,38112.5%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
2026-08-115,073
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 35,
  "cne_parish": 3630,
  "cne_province": 10,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electorate_difference": 0,
  "electors_august": 5073,
  "electors_july": 5073,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-J-10-35-3630",
  "name": "SAN RAFAEL / OTAVALO / IMBABURA",
  "office": "Parish board",
  "precinct_rows": [
    2064,
    2065
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 34,
  "register_pdf_row": 16,
  "register_source_id": "SA40-EC-PARISH-REGISTER",
  "snapshot": "2026-08-11",
  "source_id": "SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION",
  "spending_limit_usd": 4000
}

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. “SAN RAFAEL / OTAVALO / IMBABURA — Parish board.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-J-10-35-3630. 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, ecuador--SA40-EC-PARISH-REGISTER.