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SANTA ELENA / PUTUMAYO / SUCUMBÍOS — Parish board

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Ecuador · SANTA ELENA / PUTUMAYO / SUCUMBÍOS / SUCUMBÍOS · other · Parish boardEC-J-21-650-3705

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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
SANTA ELENA / PUTUMAYO / SUCUMBÍOS / SUCUMBÍOS
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-aebeafaf2e2794e4088efc6a
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

  • UNIDOS SOMOS MAS48.7%
  • SUCUMBIOS POR EL CAMBIO37.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO ACUERDO CIUDADANO7.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA5.7%
Results for event-372aedc87857cbf535caf6f7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS SOMOS MAS1362ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202335648.7%3Recorded
SUCUMBIOS POR EL CAMBIO1133ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202327537.6%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO ACUERDO CIUDADANO119ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023587.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023425.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK LISTAS 18 - MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SI LISTAS 2029.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA18.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INDEPENDIENTE MUSHUK INTI17.8%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO9.1%
  • POR LA JUSTICIA Y EQUIDAD SOCIAL EN EL CANTON PUTUMAYO9.0%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA8.5%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO7.3%
Results for event-3b8c2363c820ea045da5e9ee
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK LISTAS 18 - MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SI LISTAS 20695ecuador/Sed7b513864/201949229.6%3Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA37ecuador/Sed7b513864/201931118.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO INDEPENDIENTE MUSHUK INTI42ecuador/Sed7b513864/201929617.8%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO3ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191529.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
POR LA JUSTICIA Y EQUIDAD SOCIAL EN EL CANTON PUTUMAYO698ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191509%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA152ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191418.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO1ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191227.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • ALIANZA PAIS - MUSHUK INTI. LISTAS 35-6152.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK18.7%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"14.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA14.3%
Results for event-15a3890db0cd19e1d7c5a17d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA PAIS - MUSHUK INTI. LISTAS 35-6121004ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201459952.2%3Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201421518.7%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"4ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201417014.8%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUMA13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201416414.3%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
2026-08-111,094
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 650,
  "cne_parish": 3705,
  "cne_province": 21,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electorate_difference": 0,
  "electors_august": 1094,
  "electors_july": 1094,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-J-21-650-3705",
  "name": "SANTA ELENA / PUTUMAYO / SUCUMBÍOS",
  "office": "Parish board",
  "precinct_rows": [
    3977,
    3988,
    4033
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 42,
  "register_pdf_row": 37,
  "register_source_id": "SA40-EC-PARISH-REGISTER",
  "snapshot": "2026-08-11",
  "source_id": "SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION",
  "spending_limit_usd": 5200
}

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. “SANTA ELENA / PUTUMAYO / SUCUMBÍOS — Parish board.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-J-21-650-3705. 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.