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Office briefing

SAN JUAN DE POZUL / CELICA / LOJA — Parish board

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · SAN JUAN DE POZUL / CELICA / LOJA / LOJA · other · Parish boardEC-J-11-315-3535

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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 JUAN DE POZUL / CELICA / LOJA / LOJA
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-dfeec06e2cb22d60f8463f72
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

  • SOMOS EL CAMBIO38.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO38.3%
  • PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA11.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA5.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO ACCION REGIONAL POR LA EQUIDAD, ARE4.4%
  • ALIANZA POR CELICA1.3%
Results for event-6d40487b9a8d1b24d92cbe2b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SOMOS EL CAMBIO1442ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202363138.5%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO124ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202362738.3%2Recorded
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA117ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202319111.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023955.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ACCION REGIONAL POR LA EQUIDAD, ARE33ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023724.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA POR CELICA1230ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023221.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO, CAMBIO Y DESARROLLO31.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO FUERZA PROGRESISTA18.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA17.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP11.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO CONVOCATORIA POR LA UNIDAD PROVINCIAL8.5%
  • ALIANZA LOJA PARA TODOS6.4%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA5.6%
Results for event-c60d303f53ea26ec06b8d6d4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO, CAMBIO Y DESARROLLO29ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,85431.8%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO FUERZA PROGRESISTA75ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,06218.2%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA37ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,03317.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP235ecuador/Sed7b513864/201968111.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CONVOCATORIA POR LA UNIDAD PROVINCIAL32ecuador/Sed7b513864/20194968.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA LOJA PARA TODOS596ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193726.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA152ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193285.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA26.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS24.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO PUEBLO CAMBIO Y DESARROLLO23.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO FUERZA PROGRESISTA20.1%
  • ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO5.8%
Results for event-ad35f298980b03e152af65df
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SUMA13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,50726.5%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,36624%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO PUEBLO CAMBIO Y DESARROLLO11004ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,34923.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO FUERZA PROGRESISTA11008ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,14320.1%1Recorded
ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO11012ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143295.8%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
2026-08-112,389
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 315,
  "cne_parish": 3535,
  "cne_province": 11,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electorate_difference": 0,
  "electors_august": 2389,
  "electors_july": 2389,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-J-11-315-3535",
  "name": "SAN JUAN DE POZUL / CELICA / LOJA",
  "office": "Parish board",
  "precinct_rows": [
    2087,
    2152
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 34,
  "register_pdf_row": 36,
  "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 JUAN DE POZUL / CELICA / LOJA — Parish board.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-J-11-315-3535. 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.