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Office briefing

SAN SEBASTIÁN / CHIMBO / BOLÍVAR — Parish board

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · SAN SEBASTIÁN / CHIMBO / BOLÍVAR / BOLÍVAR · other · Parish boardEC-J-2-170-3655

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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 SEBASTIÁN / CHIMBO / BOLÍVAR / BOLÍVAR
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-398e448ccec102c1b178ffa3
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 INTEGRACIÓN NUEVA GENTE EN ACCIÓN, MINGA38.7%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO30.2%
  • CHIMBO PIENSA EN GRANDE15.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK6.7%
  • ALIANZA JUNTOS POR BOLIVAR6.1%
  • ALIANZA ENCONTREMONOS POR BOLIVAR2.6%
Results for event-1c08a635e8e71ac5150570a4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE INTEGRACIÓN NUEVA GENTE EN ACCIÓN, MINGA227ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202327238.7%2Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO34ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202321230.2%2Recorded
CHIMBO PIENSA EN GRANDE1127ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202311115.8%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023476.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA JUNTOS POR BOLIVAR1125ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023436.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA ENCONTREMONOS POR BOLIVAR1084ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023182.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ33.1%
  • TIEMPO DE CONSTRUIR27.0%
  • ALIANZA POR LA INTEGRACIÓN BOLIVARENSE19.5%
  • NUEVA GENERACION PSP 3 Y MINGA 7711.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA9.1%
Results for event-489601ad6c70b633e6ea639f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ198ecuador/Sed7b513864/201989333.1%2Recorded
TIEMPO DE CONSTRUIR548ecuador/Sed7b513864/201972827%2Recorded
ALIANZA POR LA INTEGRACIÓN BOLIVARENSE501ecuador/Sed7b513864/201952819.5%1Recorded
NUEVA GENERACION PSP 3 Y MINGA 77550ecuador/Sed7b513864/201930711.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA13ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192459.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA30.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO28.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE INTEGRACIÓN OBRAS SON AMORES21.4%
  • ALIANZA CHIMBEÑA13.2%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA6.8%
Results for event-3ab09079ab956cadb86caa21
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SUMA13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201462130.4%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201457828.3%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE INTEGRACIÓN OBRAS SON AMORES2002ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201443721.4%1Recorded
ALIANZA CHIMBEÑA2005ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201427113.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141396.8%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
2026-08-11920
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 170,
  "cne_parish": 3655,
  "cne_province": 2,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electorate_difference": 0,
  "electors_august": 920,
  "electors_july": 920,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-J-2-170-3655",
  "name": "SAN SEBASTIÁN / CHIMBO / BOLÍVAR",
  "office": "Parish board",
  "precinct_rows": [
    330
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 27,
  "register_pdf_row": 11,
  "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 SEBASTIÁN / CHIMBO / BOLÍVAR — Parish board.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-J-2-170-3655. 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.