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

Office briefing

OLMEDO / LOJA — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · OLMEDO / LOJA / LOJA · municipal · MayorEC-M-11-311

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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
OLMEDO / LOJA / LOJA
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-fc976d02d30e188b9e333634
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

  • PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA46.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO42.2%
  • POR LOJA6.7%
  • SOMOS EL CAMBIO4.8%
Results for event-f2e1a49a0119244aefda86a0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · JONATHAN CARRION GUARDERAS117ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,77746.3%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO · JORGE LUIS MARQUEZ JIMENEZ124ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,61842.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
POR LOJA · KLEVER ANTONIO SANCHEZ ARMIJOS1244ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232576.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SOMOS EL CAMBIO · KATHERIN MEDINA1442ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231854.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA41.7%
  • ALIANZA LOJA PARA TODOS29.0%
  • CENTRO DEMOCRATICO13.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO8.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA7.3%
Results for event-5b9b70f57a2665254f918e62
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA · KLEVER SANCHEZ652ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,54741.7%1Recorded
ALIANZA LOJA PARA TODOS · JORGE MARQUEZ596ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,07729%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · JONATHAN CARRION GUARDERAS145ecuador/Sed7b513864/201949213.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · LEODAN RIOS SANCHEZ1ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193238.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · AUGUSTO YAGUANA13ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192707.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO AVANZA42.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS35.9%
  • ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO22.0%
Results for event-d6817dd8c0ea0943db4b3f46
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO AVANZA · ARMIJOS BARRERA NESTOR RAUL6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,42142.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · MARQUEZ JIMENEZ JORGE LUIS3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,21135.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA CAMINO AL PROGRESO · SANCHEZ ARMIJOS KLEVER ANTONIO11012ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201474222%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

65.450–100 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=4.143862392494135, oldest_gap=6.224066390041493, previous_gap=12.671879212725806

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,[8.708546778107307,0,0,0,0,7.279590186033971,84.01186303585874],[0,42.11618257261411,0,0,0,35.892116182572614,21.991701244813278]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

70.73percentage 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: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[null,[8.708546778107307,0,0,0,0,7.279590186033971,84.01186303585874],[0,42.11618257261411,0,0,0,35.892116182572614,21.991701244813278]]

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,[8.708546778107307,0,0,0,0,7.279590186033971,84.01186303585874],[0,42.11618257261411,0,0,0,35.892116182572614,21.991701244813278]]

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
2026-08-114,660
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 311,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 11,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 4660,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-11-311",
  "name": "OLMEDO / LOJA",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    2154,
    2226
  ],
  "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. “OLMEDO / LOJA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-11-311. 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.