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TAISHA / MORONA SANTIAGO — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · TAISHA / MORONA SANTIAGO / MORONA SANTIAGO · municipal · MayorEC-M-14-926

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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
TAISHA / MORONA SANTIAGO / MORONA SANTIAGO
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-69c71c042e905c0c1841668e
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

  • SOMOS UNIDAD POR MORONA SANTIAGO55.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK43.5%
  • HAGAMOS HISTORIA POR MORONA SANTIAGO1.2%
Results for event-19c1bfd027658d577c7437bf
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SOMOS UNIDAD POR MORONA SANTIAGO · HUGO MOLINA1243ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20236,40255.4%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · WILSON SHIMPIUKAT7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20235,03043.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
HAGAMOS HISTORIA POR MORONA SANTIAGO · NELLY CHIWIANT1252ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231331.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK53.9%
  • ALIANZA UNIDAD PROVINCIAL POR EL CAMBIO PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO LISTA 6 Y MOVIMIENTO SUMA LISTA 2323.2%
  • ALIANZA TODOS SOMOS MORONA SANTIAGO13.7%
  • ALIANZA PROGRESA MORONA SANTIAGO FUERZA AMAZÓNICA LISTA 62 Y ALIANZA PAIS LISTA 359.2%
Results for event-e060c9157ae1e81aaae8f680
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · BARTOLOME WACHAPA12ecuador/Sed7b513864/20195,21553.9%1Recorded
ALIANZA UNIDAD PROVINCIAL POR EL CAMBIO PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO LISTA 6 Y MOVIMIENTO SUMA LISTA 23 · MANUEL CATANI682ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,24123.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA TODOS SOMOS MORONA SANTIAGO · BARTOLOME KUJA751ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,32113.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA PROGRESA MORONA SANTIAGO FUERZA AMAZÓNICA LISTA 62 Y ALIANZA PAIS LISTA 35 · ESTHER GARZON514ecuador/Sed7b513864/20198919.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK77.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS22.6%
Results for event-0c70c615754e4363b644b286
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · AYUY CHIRIAPA CERGIO5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20145,71777.4%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · JUA PEAS EDWIN MAURICIO3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,66622.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=11.863380890618245, oldest_gap=54.86929432480022, previous_gap=30.76127430699214

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

10.45percentage 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=[[0,0,43.493298746217036,0,0,0,56.50670125378297],[0,0,53.940835746793546,0,0,0,46.059164253206454],[0,0,77.43464716240011,0,0,22.565352837599892,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.06percentage 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=[[0,0,43.493298746217036,0,0,0,56.50670125378297],[0,0,53.940835746793546,0,0,0,46.059164253206454],[0,0,77.43464716240011,0,0,22.565352837599892,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.25percentage 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=[[0,0,43.493298746217036,0,0,0,56.50670125378297],[0,0,53.940835746793546,0,0,0,46.059164253206454],[0,0,77.43464716240011,0,0,22.565352837599892,0]]

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
2026-08-1118,679
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 926,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 14,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 18679,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-14-926",
  "name": "TAISHA / MORONA SANTIAGO",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    2832,
    2840,
    2841,
    2842,
    2843,
    2844,
    2845,
    2846,
    2847,
    2848,
    2849,
    2850,
    2851,
    2852,
    2855,
    2856,
    2863,
    2864,
    2865,
    2866,
    2867,
    2878,
    2893,
    2896,
    2899,
    2900,
    2902,
    2907,
    2908,
    2909,
    2910,
    2912,
    2913,
    2919,
    2920,
    2931,
    2932,
    2933,
    2934,
    2935,
    2936,
    2937,
    2938,
    2949,
    2950,
    2951,
    2952,
    2953
  ],
  "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. “TAISHA / MORONA SANTIAGO — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-14-926. 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.