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BOLÍVAR / CARCHI — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · BOLÍVAR / CARCHI / CARCHI · municipal · MayorEC-M-4-25

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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
BOLÍVAR / CARCHI / CARCHI
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-e48f8b248b9c5c328e8f7a73
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 CARCHI LISTA 63- MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO NACIONAL LISTA 134.8%
  • FUERZA ACTIVA BOLIVARENSE31.0%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA23.4%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA5.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES4.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK1.0%
Results for event-572b614ef41355e12bfc05f3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL CONSERVADOR DEL CARCHI LISTA 63- MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO NACIONAL LISTA 1 · LIVARDO BENALCAZAR GUERRON1122ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,74834.8%1Recorded
FUERZA ACTIVA BOLIVARENSE · CRISTIAM PABON1266ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,34031%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · JORGE ALEXANDER ANGULO DAVILA101ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,52123.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA · CRISTINA PABON1110ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20235905.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · CARLOS ALDAS99ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20234584.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · KEYLA MENESES ESPINOSA7ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231131%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA MSC CONSERVADORES LISTA 63 -PSC LISTA 637.9%
  • ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA-AVANZA LISTAS 12-821.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA19.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ12.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIDERA-CARCHI7.4%
  • ALIANZA UNIDOS POR BOLIVAR1.9%
Results for event-ddd75df95551d33ec50b561a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA MSC CONSERVADORES LISTA 63 -PSC LISTA 6 · LIVARDO BENALCAZAR567ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193,77337.9%1Recorded
ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA-AVANZA LISTAS 12-8 · JORGE ANGULO544ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,09021%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · CRISTIAM PABON VASQUEZ13ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,97519.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ · DAVID PABON198ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,19512%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIDERA-CARCHI · PAUL HERRERIA LLORE116ecuador/Sed7b513864/20197427.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA UNIDOS POR BOLIVAR · LEONARDO MENESES POZO583ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191931.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION DEMOCRATICA DEL CARCHI, LISTAS 65 Y PARTIDO POLITICO AVANZA, LISTAS 861.7%
  • ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS-MOVIMIENTO LIDERA CARCHI38.3%
Results for event-cf2a2d727947a592383e1dc0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION DEMOCRATICA DEL CARCHI, LISTAS 65 Y PARTIDO POLITICO AVANZA, LISTAS 8 · ANGULO DAVILA JORGE ALEXANDER4012ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20145,72861.7%1Recorded
ALIANZA MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS-MOVIMIENTO LIDERA CARCHI · HIDROBO GUERRERO HUGO ERNESTO4013ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143,54938.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

51.560–100 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=3.7883008356545993, oldest_gap=23.48819661528512, previous_gap=16.88402889245586

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

28.71percentage 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=[[0,23.40761374187558,1.0492107706592386,4.25255338904364,0,0,71.29062209842155],[0,0,0,0,0,19.813402889245587,80.18659711075442],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=[[0,23.40761374187558,1.0492107706592386,4.25255338904364,0,0,71.29062209842155],[0,0,0,0,0,19.813402889245587,80.18659711075442],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=[[0,23.40761374187558,1.0492107706592386,4.25255338904364,0,0,71.29062209842155],[0,0,0,0,0,19.813402889245587,80.18659711075442],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
2026-08-1113,687
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 25,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 4,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 13687,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-4-25",
  "name": "BOLÍVAR / CARCHI",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    496,
    502,
    503,
    511,
    512,
    513,
    514,
    515,
    519,
    522,
    524,
    562,
    563,
    564,
    565,
    566
  ],
  "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. “BOLÍVAR / CARCHI — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-4-25. 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.