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Office briefing

SUA/BOCANA / ATACAMES / ESMERALDAS — Parish board

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · SUA/BOCANA / ATACAMES / ESMERALDAS / ESMERALDAS · other · Parish boardEC-J-8-785-3880

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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
SUA/BOCANA / ATACAMES / ESMERALDAS / ESMERALDAS
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-8e5dbe7d1f1f9f9d683a2664
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

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO37.4%
  • SOMOS ATACAMES LISTAS 1 - 3332.6%
  • UNION POR LA REVOLUCION CIUDADANA12.1%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MÁS ACCIÓN, SUMA9.4%
  • UNIDOS PODEMOS8.5%
Results for event-562e301a2146e647d9b80041
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO32ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202387537.4%2Recorded
SOMOS ATACAMES LISTAS 1 - 331493ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202376332.6%2Recorded
UNION POR LA REVOLUCION CIUDADANA1270ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202328312.1%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MÁS ACCIÓN, SUMA42ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232219.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDOS PODEMOS1028ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231988.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • ALIANZA UNIDOS PODEMOS28.4%
  • ALIANZA SUA AL CAMBIO POSITIVO17.8%
  • FUERZA.EC11.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA9.5%
  • ALIANZA PROGRESISTA POR UN NUEVO ATACAMES8.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ7.2%
  • PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA5.0%
  • ALIANZA POR UN ATACAMES MEJOR4.9%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA3.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES1.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA1.3%
Results for event-e3fd68fb65f3b976fcf148ec
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA UNIDOS PODEMOS529ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,12828.4%2Recorded
ALIANZA SUA AL CAMBIO POSITIVO531ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,33217.8%1Recorded
FUERZA.EC146ecuador/Sed7b513864/201989011.9%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA13ecuador/Sed7b513864/20197169.5%1Recorded
ALIANZA PROGRESISTA POR UN NUEVO ATACAMES563ecuador/Sed7b513864/20196628.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ198ecuador/Sed7b513864/20195407.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA25ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193745%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA POR UN ATACAMES MEJOR533ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193644.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA152ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192553.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES22ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191391.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA37ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191001.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA GENERANDO UNION Y ALTERNATIVAS29.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS25.9%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO15.9%
  • PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO12.8%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA6.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA5.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO3.9%
Results for event-864166f61f644774ee2baaf1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA GENERANDO UNION Y ALTERNATIVAS8002ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,84129.2%2Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,63125.9%2Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO10ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,00315.9%1Recorded
PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO2ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201480812.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20144046.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUMA13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143665.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142463.9%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

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
2026-08-113,387
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 785,
  "cne_parish": 3880,
  "cne_province": 8,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electorate_difference": 0,
  "electors_august": 3387,
  "electors_july": 3387,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-J-8-785-3880",
  "name": "SUA/BOCANA / ATACAMES / ESMERALDAS",
  "office": "Parish board",
  "precinct_rows": [
    1190,
    1277
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 31,
  "register_pdf_row": 29,
  "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. “SUA/BOCANA / ATACAMES / ESMERALDAS — Parish board.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-J-8-785-3880. 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.