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Office briefing

CASCALES / SUCUMBÍOS — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · CASCALES / SUCUMBÍOS / SUCUMBÍOS · municipal · MayorEC-M-21-745

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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
CASCALES / SUCUMBÍOS / SUCUMBÍOS
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-c994f8cf3a202cc60ddb8ef2
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

  • UNIDOS SOMOS MAS51.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO INDEPENDIENTE MUSHUK INTI28.6%
  • SUCUMBIOS POR EL CAMBIO10.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA4.6%
  • UNIDAD NUEVAS OPCIONES2.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA PID1.5%
Results for event-d91c74c04ceaa3b62e2b9fd1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS SOMOS MAS · WILSON SANMARTIN1362ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,85451.9%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO INDEPENDIENTE MUSHUK INTI · ORLANDO GREFA223ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,12528.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SUCUMBIOS POR EL CAMBIO · ALBARO BELTRAN1133ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202380710.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · DEYSI ROJAS207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233394.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD NUEVAS OPCIONES · ERIKA RAMON1031ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231902.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA PID · MARUJA JIMENEZ JIMENEZ222ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231111.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA38.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK LISTAS 18 - MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SI LISTAS 2027.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO20.0%
  • ALIANZA POR LA UNIDAD LEALTAD Y VICTORIA14.7%
Results for event-498c966273aa9cf2045997c1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMA · SILVIO QUEVEDO37ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,58238.4%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK LISTAS 18 - MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SI LISTAS 20 · RUTH PEÑAFIEL695ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,81327%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO · JAIME RIERA3ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,34120%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA POR LA UNIDAD LEALTAD Y VICTORIA · YOBANY BOSQUEZ RODRIGUEZ546ecuador/Sed7b513864/201998514.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK34.9%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA23.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"15.9%
  • ALIANZA PAIS - MUSHUK INTI. LISTAS 35-6114.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO INDEPENDIENTE UNIDAD CASCALEÑA9.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO1.9%
Results for event-aa6368b0933abc86290338f0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · RIERA RODRIGUEZ JAIME RUBEN5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,03934.9%1Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · QUEVEDO GALARZA SILVIO JOSE6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,36223.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO" · QUEZADA ROMERO FRANKLIN EDUARDO4ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201492615.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA PAIS - MUSHUK INTI. LISTAS 35-61 · ROBLES GUATO LASTENIA ALEXANDRA21004ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201482214.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO INDEPENDIENTE UNIDAD CASCALEÑA · GARCIA MENESES LEON ENRIQUE21003ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20145779.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO · GREFA VARGAS CRISTIAN DAVID8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141091.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

7.190–100 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=23.283059520603285, oldest_gap=11.602399314481573, previous_gap=11.441749739622082

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,[0,0,0,0,38.41690224668948,0,61.58309775331052],[0,23.34190231362468,34.94430162810625,1.868037703513282,0,0,39.84575835475579]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

60.15percentage 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,[0,0,0,0,38.41690224668948,0,61.58309775331052],[0,23.34190231362468,34.94430162810625,1.868037703513282,0,0,39.84575835475579]]

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,[0,0,0,0,38.41690224668948,0,61.58309775331052],[0,23.34190231362468,34.94430162810625,1.868037703513282,0,0,39.84575835475579]]

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
2026-08-1110,116
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 745,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 21,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 10116,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-21-745",
  "name": "CASCALES / SUCUMBÍOS",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    3972,
    3975,
    3976,
    3978,
    4046,
    4047,
    4048,
    4049,
    4050,
    4067,
    4084,
    4091,
    4096
  ],
  "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. “CASCALES / SUCUMBÍOS — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-21-745. 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.