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Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Office briefing

EL PAN / AZUAY — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · EL PAN / AZUAY / AZUAY · municipal · MayorEC-M-1-960

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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
EL PAN / AZUAY / AZUAY
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-beed814ae3ff875833f246f7
Registry qualification
Qualified in source register

2. How certain is that date?

2026-11-29 is 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 POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA34.6%
  • UNIDOS VENCEREMOS34.3%
  • AZUAY PRIMERO25.1%
  • AZUAY YA6.0%
Results for event-4aa0f4d6a2fa098e0a79b02d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · WILSON RAMIREZ207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202375134.6%1Recorded
UNIDOS VENCEREMOS · JANETH GARZON GONZALEZ1491ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202374534.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AZUAY PRIMERO · RIGOBERTO BORJA1063ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202354425.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AZUAY YA · ELENA PERALTA PILCO1115ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231316%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA JUNTOS POR EL FUTURO43.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA35.4%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA ECUATORIANO20.8%
Results for event-edb9f98daf2e7b07d3de2da9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA JUNTOS POR EL FUTURO · RIGOBERTO BORJA556ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,02043.8%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · WILSON RAMIREZ13ecuador/Sed7b513864/201982335.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA ECUATORIANO · MISAEL LOPEZ8ecuador/Sed7b513864/201948520.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS39.9%
  • ALIANZA "PARTICIPA CON IGUALDAD" LISTAS 62-8235.2%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO24.9%
Results for event-d6d0e9e78c97954d9b075ac7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · RAMIREZ RIVAS WILSON ROMAN3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201482939.9%1Recorded
ALIANZA "PARTICIPA CON IGUALDAD" LISTAS 62-82 · BORJA CABRERA MARTIN RIGOBERTO1008ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201473035.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO · TAPIA CARREÑO JORGE ROMAN10ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201451724.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

84.090–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=0.2763703362505723, oldest_gap=4.76878612716763, previous_gap=8.46219931271478

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,[0,0,0,0,0,35.35223367697594,64.64776632302406],[0,0,0,0,0,39.932562620423894,60.067437379576106]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

4.58percentage 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

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[null,[0,0,0,0,0,35.35223367697594,64.64776632302406],[0,0,0,0,0,39.932562620423894,60.067437379576106]]

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,[0,0,0,0,0,35.35223367697594,64.64776632302406],[0,0,0,0,0,39.932562620423894,60.067437379576106]]

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
2026-08-112,732
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 960,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 1,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 2732,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-1-960",
  "name": "EL PAN / AZUAY",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    173,
    174,
    175,
    176
  ],
  "record_type": "official_electoral_register",
  "register_pdf_page": 7,
  "register_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "snapshot": "2026-08-11",
  "source_id": "SA40-EC-DISTRIBUTION"
}

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. “EL PAN / AZUAY — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-1-960. 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.