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PALTAS / LOJA — Mayor
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Ecuador · PALTAS / LOJA / LOJA · municipal · MayorEC-M-11-310
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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
- PALTAS / LOJA / LOJA
- Next election
- 2026-11-29
- Linked upcoming event
- next-fbe746590545c2c7ee7c70d0
- 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
- POR LOJA23.7%
- JUNTOS POR LOJA19.6%
- MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES17.0%
- MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO12.9%
- MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK11.2%
- EL RETO ES LOJA7.7%
- PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO3.9%
- MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA2.5%
- PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR0.8%
- MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA PID0.7%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POR LOJA · MANRIQUE DARWIN DIAZ MORENO | 1244ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 3,505 | 23.7% | 1 | Recorded |
| JUNTOS POR LOJA · NERIO RAMIRO MAITA SANCHEZ | 1129ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 2,890 | 19.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES · JULIA GUERRERO | 208ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 2,509 | 17% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO · ALVARO AGILA | 124ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 1,907 | 12.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · DIEGO DIAZ | 7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 1,660 | 11.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| EL RETO ES LOJA · JUAN JIMENEZ | 1074ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 1,130 | 7.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO · ALBA MARIA CORONEL | 34ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 576 | 3.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · JORGE ENRIQUE TORRES MONTOYA | 207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 363 | 2.5% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR · MIRIAN ENCARNACION | 231ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 124 | 0.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA PID · SERVIO CAÑAR POGO | 222ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 96 | 0.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2019-03-24
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA27.7%
- MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA25.0%
- CENTRO DEMOCRATICO22.7%
- PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO5.9%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA5.4%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.7%
- IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA4.1%
- MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACION2.4%
- ALIANZA ÚNETE AL CAMBIO1.3%
- FUERZA.EC0.8%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA · JORGE LUIS FEIJOO VALAREZO | 807ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 3,917 | 27.7% | 1 | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA · RAMIRO MAITA SANCHEZ | 37ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 3,527 | 25% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · ALVARO AGILA HIDALGO | 145ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 3,210 | 22.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO · DIEGO DIAZ ARTEAGA | 3ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 834 | 5.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · IRENE ENCALADA | 13ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 756 | 5.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · MELVA ENCARNACION | 1ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 668 | 4.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · ISAURO HIDALGO | 152ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 582 | 4.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACION · LUBERLI VIVANCO DIAZ | 18ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 336 | 2.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| ALIANZA ÚNETE AL CAMBIO · VICTOR JIMENEZ | 805ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 186 | 1.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| FUERZA.EC · SERVILIO MOROCHO ERAS | 146ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 114 | 0.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2014-02-23
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- MOVIMIENTO SUMA31.9%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS30.8%
- PARTIDO AVANZA28.0%
- ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO9.3%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIMIENTO SUMA · MAITA SANCHEZ NERIO RAMIRO | 13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 4,450 | 31.9% | 1 | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · VIDAL REQUELME VICTOR ARTEMIO | 3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 4,297 | 30.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO AVANZA · FEIJOO VALAREZO JORGE LUIS | 6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 3,914 | 28% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO · LOPEZ CORDOVA OVIDIO MANFREDO | 11012ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 1,294 | 9.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI82.810–100 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=4.166666666666664, oldest_gap=1.096381225367253, previous_gap=2.7600849256900197
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility35.04percentage 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
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,0,11.246612466124661,0,0,0,88.75338753387534],[4.72753007784855,0,0,0,24.961075725406936,5.350318471337579,64.96107572540693],[0,28.047294876388392,0,0,31.88821211035471,30.79183088498746,9.272662128269438]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility60.42percentage 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=[[0,0,11.246612466124661,0,0,0,88.75338753387534],[4.72753007784855,0,0,0,24.961075725406936,5.350318471337579,64.96107572540693],[0,28.047294876388392,0,0,31.88821211035471,30.79183088498746,9.272662128269438]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility47.73percentage 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
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0,0,11.246612466124661,0,0,0,88.75338753387534],[4.72753007784855,0,0,0,24.961075725406936,5.350318471337579,64.96107572540693],[0,28.047294876388392,0,0,31.88821211035471,30.79183088498746,9.272662128269438]]
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.
| As of | Electors | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 20,115 | Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.{
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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
- Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-electorales-2023/?wpdmdl=39834 · rights unknown
- Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019/?wpdmdl=20971 · rights unknown
- Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-a-nivel-parroquial-2014/?wpdmdl=21133 · rights unknown
- Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/distributivos-de-electores-2027/ · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2023.zip · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2023.dat · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019.dat · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2019.dat · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2014.sav · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2014.dat · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE 2027 precinct and electorate distribution, cutoff 11 August 2026 · rights unknown
- Ecuador: CNE resolution PLE-CNE-1-31-7-2026: ordinary election call for 29 November 2026 · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “PALTAS / LOJA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-11-310. 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.