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BUENA FE / LOS RÍOS — Mayor
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Ecuador · BUENA FE / LOS RÍOS / LOS RÍOS · municipal · MayorEC-M-12-945
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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
- BUENA FE / LOS RÍOS / LOS RÍOS
- Next election
- 2026-11-29
- Linked upcoming event
- next-c7358dc3cde3120ddb5b2e15
- 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
- RC5-RETO 3342.2%
- UNIDOS POR LOS RIOS 1-3-4-17-20-21-23-2532.8%
- CRECER POR UN BUENA FE MAS HUMANO21.0%
- PARTIDO AVANZA1.3%
- PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR1.2%
- PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA1.1%
- MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES0.4%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RC5-RETO 33 · DIANA ANCHUNDIA YEPEZ | 1324ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 18,074 | 42.2% | 1 | Recorded |
| UNIDOS POR LOS RIOS 1-3-4-17-20-21-23-25 · ARMANDO MANOBANDA CEDEÑO | 1501ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 14,011 | 32.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| CRECER POR UN BUENA FE MAS HUMANO · LUIS RAMON ZAMBRANO | 1220ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 8,987 | 21% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO AVANZA · AMOSANDRA TORRES PARREÑO | 101ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 574 | 1.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR · MAOLY ZAMBRANO ZAMBRANO | 231ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 506 | 1.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · FREDDY OLVERA | 117ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 477 | 1.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES · MILENA DUARTE | 208ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023 | 152 | 0.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2019-03-24
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- CREO - FE49.7%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO40.4%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA8.3%
- MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO1.1%
- PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO0.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CREO - FE · EDUARDO MENDOZA PALMA | 659ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 19,451 | 49.7% | 1 | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · LUIS RAMON ZAMBRANO BELLO | 1ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 15,818 | 40.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · MARIA FERNANDA ZAMBRANO MOLINA | 13ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 3,252 | 8.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO · INOCENTE CAMPOS BERMEO | 219ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 424 | 1.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO · NELSON CUEVA RODRIGUEZ | 3ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019 | 231 | 0.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2014-02-23
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes
- PARTIDO AVANZA51.5%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS35.9%
- MOVIMIENTO CREO8.2%
- MOVIMIENTO SUMA3.6%
- UNIDAD CON BUENA-FE0.9%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO AVANZA · MENDOZA PALMA ERWIN EDUARDO | 6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 19,015 | 51.5% | 1 | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · ZAMBRANO BELLO LUIS RAMON | 3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 13,276 | 35.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO CREO · JIMENEZ GOMEZ FLEISHMAN MOROSOT | 8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 3,020 | 8.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO SUMA · OLVERA RUIZ FREDDY BORGE | 13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 1,312 | 3.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| UNIDAD CON BUENA-FE · ROSADO ESPINOZA HILTON EUSTAQUIO | 12016ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014 | 330 | 0.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI49.830–100 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=9.497206703910614, oldest_gap=15.530538792520233, previous_gap=9.273534817235038
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility48.68percentage 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=[[0,1.3417171174119351,0,0,0,0,98.65828288258807],[40.37676128241781,0,0,0,0,8.301000612619971,51.322238104962224],[0,51.45725651503261,0,8.172543501204233,3.5504559846291235,35.92671772251238,0.8930262766216546]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility90.81percentage 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=[[0,1.3417171174119351,0,0,0,0,98.65828288258807],[40.37676128241781,0,0,0,0,8.301000612619971,51.322238104962224],[0,51.45725651503261,0,8.172543501204233,3.5504559846291235,35.92671772251238,0.8930262766216546]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility69.74percentage 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=[[0,1.3417171174119351,0,0,0,0,98.65828288258807],[40.37676128241781,0,0,0,0,8.301000612619971,51.322238104962224],[0,51.45725651503261,0,8.172543501204233,3.5504559846291235,35.92671772251238,0.8930262766216546]]
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 | 62,530 | 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. “BUENA FE / LOS RÍOS — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-12-945. 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.