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Office briefing

MONTÚFAR / CARCHI — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · MONTÚFAR / CARCHI / CARCHI · municipal · MayorEC-M-4-10

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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
MONTÚFAR / CARCHI / CARCHI
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-a2cdadb6268b4c2329afde7f
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 SOCIAL CONSERVADOR DEL CARCHI43.2%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA31.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO SOLIDARIDAD Y TRABAJO14.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO RENOVACIÓN TOTAL, RETO5.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA3.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES1.9%
Results for event-634a88c13e525f3bdf1d4ab0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL CONSERVADOR DEL CARCHI · RAUL LUCERO BENALCAZAR88ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20238,91243.2%1Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA · ANDRES PONCE1110ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20236,39831%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SOLIDARIDAD Y TRABAJO · JAVIER PROAÑO129ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,07314.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO RENOVACIÓN TOTAL, RETO · SEGUNDO HOMERO CADENA226ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,1225.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · HECTOR CHULDE207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20237523.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · DARWIN MUÑOZ99ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233901.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA36.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES24.3%
  • ALIANZA MAS 64 - PAIS 3521.6%
  • ALIANZA MSC CONSERVADORES LISTA 63-PSC LISTA 6-MST LISTA 10518.1%
Results for event-0dfedbe391a799dd5333bdb8
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · ANDRES PONCE LOPEZ152ecuador/Sed7b513864/20197,35036.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · RAUL LUCERO22ecuador/Sed7b513864/20194,94924.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA MAS 64 - PAIS 35 · LAURO TRUJILLO526ecuador/Sed7b513864/20194,39321.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA MSC CONSERVADORES LISTA 63-PSC LISTA 6-MST LISTA 105 · MAURICIO BASTIDAS569ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193,67918.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION DEMOCRATICA DEL CARCHI42.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE ACCION SOCIAL29.9%
  • ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS-MOVIMIENTO LIDERA CARCHI27.4%
Results for event-a4b23a2e80f6bdefadff41bc
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION DEMOCRATICA DEL CARCHI · ACOSTA PUSDA JUAN JOSE4003ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20148,26942.7%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE ACCION SOCIAL · TRUJILLO RUANO LAURO HERNAN4004ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20145,79029.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS-MOVIMIENTO LIDERA CARCHI · RUBIO CHAMORRO CARLOS EDUARDO4013ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20145,30927.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

39.390–100 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=12.176103065820701, oldest_gap=12.799463031805036, previous_gap=11.786362966962841

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

22.41percentage 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=[[0,0,0,1.8888942703540466,0,0,98.11110572964597],[0,0,0,24.294339993127487,0,0,75.70566000687252],null]

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: Previous interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,1.8888942703540466,0,0,98.11110572964597],[0,0,0,24.294339993127487,0,0,75.70566000687252],null]

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=[[0,0,0,1.8888942703540466,0,0,98.11110572964597],[0,0,0,24.294339993127487,0,0,75.70566000687252],null]

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
2026-08-1126,320
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 10,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 4,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 26320,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-4-10",
  "name": "MONTÚFAR / CARCHI",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    500,
    501,
    521,
    543,
    544,
    545,
    546,
    547,
    548,
    549,
    550,
    551
  ],
  "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. “MONTÚFAR / CARCHI — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-4-10. 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.