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Office briefing

PORTOVELO / EL ORO — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · PORTOVELO / EL ORO / EL ORO · municipal · MayorEC-M-7-690

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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
PORTOVELO / EL ORO / EL ORO
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-82af23a2c8bd4765b0e84625
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 CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES37.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES28.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL, S.U.R.23.2%
  • PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR9.7%
  • JUNTOS SEGUIREMOS HACIENDO HISTORIA 5-770.6%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA0.2%
Results for event-f0c9c5a1e4fd9a8566e8d384
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · JORGE MALDONADO99ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,38037.5%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES · LUIS MALDONADO208ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,60328.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL, S.U.R. · PAULINA MORALES SANCHEZ147ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,08823.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR · HUGO MARCA LUDEÑA231ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20238739.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUNTOS SEGUIREMOS HACIENDO HISTORIA 5-77 · ANDREA TANDAZO SARAGURO1250ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023540.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · ERIKA MOCHA APOLO101ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023180.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • MOVIMIENTO SOMOS IGUALDAD, IMPULSO E INTEGRACIÓN SIII35.2%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO23.7%
  • ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA SI-MAR LISTA 20/7021.5%
  • CENTRO DEMOCRATICO-SUR9.3%
  • PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA6.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO3.4%
  • IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA0.7%
Results for event-b80ddb625be939dc34aea64a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO SOMOS IGUALDAD, IMPULSO E INTEGRACIÓN SIII · PAULINA LOPEZ197ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193,09435.2%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · IVAN GODOY LUNA1ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,08223.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA SI-MAR LISTA 20/70 · JULIO ROMERO702ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,88921.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO-SUR · RONALD BELTRAN786ecuador/Sed7b513864/20198189.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA · JAIME ESPINOSA ESPINOSA25ecuador/Sed7b513864/20195406.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO · VICENTE CAYAMBE219ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192983.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · ANTONIO CONTENTO BELTRAN152ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019600.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA PAIS-MAR60.6%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO24.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO11.1%
  • PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO3.8%
Results for event-ddedf5b6fd2cc5d9f97285c5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA PAIS-MAR · LOPEZ SIGUENZA ROSITA PAULINA7007ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20144,97760.6%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO · ROMERO ORELLANA JULIO BOLIVAR10ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,00524.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO · MUÑOZ GARCIA NARCISA DE LOURDES8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201491111.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO · MACAS ARMIJOS SANDRA BEATRIZ2ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143153.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

38.750–100 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=8.618012422360248, oldest_gap=36.208576998050674, previous_gap=11.524883270698098

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.69percentage 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=[[0,0.19964507542147295,0,37.48890860692103,0,0,62.3114463176575],[23.710283566791936,0,0,0,0,0,76.28971643320807],[0,0,0,11.098927875243664,0,0,88.90107212475634]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

23.71percentage 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: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,0.19964507542147295,0,37.48890860692103,0,0,62.3114463176575],[23.710283566791936,0,0,0,0,0,76.28971643320807],[0,0,0,11.098927875243664,0,0,88.90107212475634]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

30.7percentage 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=[[0,0.19964507542147295,0,37.48890860692103,0,0,62.3114463176575],[23.710283566791936,0,0,0,0,0,76.28971643320807],[0,0,0,11.098927875243664,0,0,88.90107212475634]]

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
2026-08-1111,252
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 690,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 7,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 11252,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-7-690",
  "name": "PORTOVELO / EL ORO",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    1031,
    1032,
    1033,
    1034,
    1035,
    1036
  ],
  "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. “PORTOVELO / EL ORO — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-7-690. 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.