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

Office briefing

EL TAMBO / CAÑAR — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · EL TAMBO / CAÑAR / CAÑAR · municipal · MayorEC-M-3-765

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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
EL TAMBO / CAÑAR / CAÑAR
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-09c16709f100aa68296041c3
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 POR CAÑAR33.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK32.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA20.7%
  • EL TAMBO RENACE13.4%
Results for event-ae8120804924329bd2806907
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS POR CAÑAR · RENE CASTILLO1153ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,04733.6%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · MANUEL JESUS BALBOA ANGAMARCA7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,96732.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · XAVIER RODRIGUEZ207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,26120.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
EL TAMBO RENACE · CARLOS ORTIZ GUILLEN1170ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202381713.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • CAÑAR EMPRENDE40.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK26.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES23.1%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO9.9%
Results for event-17c3cbea03cfe05b7364eb13
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CAÑAR EMPRENDE · ALEX ARCE636ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,72540.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · ALFREDO PINGUIL12ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,76026.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · ALONSO CASTILLO ORTIZ22ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,54323.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · RAFAEL ORTIZ1ecuador/Sed7b513864/20196669.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK43.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS26.0%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA22.8%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO7.4%
Results for event-fd84cbb43f700211723c5b0c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · PINGUIL DUTAN LUIS ALFREDO5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,59643.9%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · ORTIZ GUILLEN ANGEL RAFAEL3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,53426%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · VEGA PAREDES PABLO GERMAN6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,34522.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO · QUINTEROS ORTIZ WILSON GONZALO10ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20144357.4%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=1.3131976362442543, oldest_gap=17.96954314720812, previous_gap=14.415894831192112

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33percentage 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=[[0,0,32.288246881155615,0,0,0,67.71175311884438],[9.949208246190619,0,26.292201971915148,23.050492978786973,0,0,40.70809680310726],[0,22.7580372250423,43.92554991539763,0,0,25.95600676818951,7.3604060913705585]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.35percentage 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=[[0,0,32.288246881155615,0,0,0,67.71175311884438],[9.949208246190619,0,26.292201971915148,23.050492978786973,0,0,40.70809680310726],[0,22.7580372250423,43.92554991539763,0,0,25.95600676818951,7.3604060913705585]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.67percentage 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=[[0,0,32.288246881155615,0,0,0,67.71175311884438],[9.949208246190619,0,26.292201971915148,23.050492978786973,0,0,40.70809680310726],[0,22.7580372250423,43.92554991539763,0,0,25.95600676818951,7.3604060913705585]]

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
2026-08-117,909
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 765,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 3,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 7909,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-3-765",
  "name": "EL TAMBO / CAÑAR",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    415,
    421,
    460,
    461,
    462
  ],
  "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. “EL TAMBO / CAÑAR — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-3-765. 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.