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ESPÍNDOLA / LOJA — Mayor
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Ecuador · ESPÍNDOLA / LOJA / LOJA · municipal · MayorEC-M-11-340
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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
- ESPÍNDOLA / LOJA / LOJA
- Next election
- 2026-11-29
- Linked upcoming event
- next-bf9479eae80df428eb50b16f
- 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 CIUDADANA32.5%
- JUNTOS POR LOJA32.4%
- MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO30.3%
- SOMOS EL CAMBIO2.2%
- MOVIMIENTO ESPÍNDOLA UNIDA1.9%
- MOVIMIENTO ACCION REGIONAL POR LA EQUIDAD, ARE0.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · ALVARO ANTONIO GARCIA ONTANEDA | 207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 3,268 | 32.5% | 1 | Recorded |
| JUNTOS POR LOJA · BOLIVAR JIMBO GRANDA | 1129ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 3,253 | 32.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO · SONIA MARIA JIMENEZ JIMENEZ | 124ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 3,045 | 30.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| SOMOS EL CAMBIO · LAURA TORRES GUERRERO | 1442ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 218 | 2.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ESPÍNDOLA UNIDA · JUNIOR LITUMA | 4ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 195 | 1.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ACCION REGIONAL POR LA EQUIDAD, ARE · YOE LUIS TORRES TORRES | 33ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 63 | 0.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2019-03-24
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- MOVIMIENTO ESPINDOLA UNIDA41.1%
- ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA27.0%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA19.7%
- CENTRO DEMOCRATICO12.1%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIMIENTO ESPINDOLA UNIDA · SONIA JIMENEZ | 107ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 3,989 | 41.1% | 1 | Recorded |
| ALIANZA LOJA PROGRESA · ANTONIO GARCIA | 652ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 2,622 | 27% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · BOLIVAR JIMBO GRANDA | 13ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 1,915 | 19.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · ALBERTO CHAMBA | 145ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 1,172 | 12.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2014-02-23
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- MOVIMIENTO ESPÍNDOLA UNIDA49.0%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS42.8%
- PARTIDO AVANZA8.2%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIMIENTO ESPÍNDOLA UNIDA · ANDRADE ROJAS MANUEL DE JESUS | 11010ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 4,572 | 49% | 1 | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · GARCIA ONTANEDA ALVARO ANTONIO | 3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 3,993 | 42.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO AVANZA · TORRES JIMENEZ LUIS ANIBAL | 6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 770 | 8.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI75.310–100 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=0.1493726349332789, oldest_gap=6.202463845741832, previous_gap=14.095689832955252
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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,[0,0,0,0,0,19.746339451433286,80.25366054856673],[0,8.248527048741296,0,0,0,42.77450455275844,48.97696839850027]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility31.28percentage 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,[0,0,0,0,0,19.746339451433286,80.25366054856673],[0,8.248527048741296,0,0,0,42.77450455275844,48.97696839850027]]
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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,[0,0,0,0,0,19.746339451433286,80.25366054856673],[0,8.248527048741296,0,0,0,42.77450455275844,48.97696839850027]]
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 | 13,296 | Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.{
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"cne_canton": 340,
"cne_parish": null,
"cne_province": 11,
"election_date": "2026-11-29",
"electors_august": 13296,
"jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-11-340",
"name": "ESPÍNDOLA / LOJA",
"office": "Mayor",
"precinct_rows": [
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2196,
2197,
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"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
- 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. “ESPÍNDOLA / LOJA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-11-340. 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.