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Office briefing

MARCABELÍ / EL ORO — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · MARCABELÍ / EL ORO / EL ORO · municipal · MayorEC-M-7-860

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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
MARCABELÍ / EL ORO / EL ORO
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-55d4116a54dd1d0fefc2bb8e
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

  • JUNTOS POR MARCABELI42.0%
  • JUNTOS SEGUIREMOS HACIENDO HISTORIA 5-7733.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES22.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL, S.U.R.0.7%
  • SUMATE Y CREE, SOMOS MAYORIA0.2%
Results for event-11346c16b222531f91b97774
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JUNTOS POR MARCABELI · JONNY CUEVA1412ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232,07642%1Recorded
JUNTOS SEGUIREMOS HACIENDO HISTORIA 5-77 · OSMER ANTONIO RIOS RAMOS1250ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,63933.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES · VICTOR FERNANDO BRAVO ENCALADA208ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,09022%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · GALO VALAREZO AGUILAR32ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023982%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL, S.U.R. · JANETH PELAEZ GARCIA147ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023330.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SUMATE Y CREE, SOMOS MAYORIA · YULIZA TORO ZEAS1273ecuador/Sa5c026518f/202390.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • CENTRO DEMOCRATICO29.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL26.5%
  • SIII 88 CREO 2126.1%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO12.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK5.8%
Results for event-3bd0052caa10a436c0c60796
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · EFREN PANGAY145ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,33729.1%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUR UNIDO REGIONAL · JONNY CUEVA RAMIREZ147ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,22026.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SIII 88 CREO 21 · ANGEL PEREZ641ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,20226.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · HUGO GIOVANNY CRESPO JARAMILLO1ecuador/Sed7b513864/201957512.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · GRACIELA APOLO VALAREZO12ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192665.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO AVANZA33.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO32.5%
  • ALIANZA PAIS-MAR20.4%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO8.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO SUMA1.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK1.6%
  • PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO1.5%
Results for event-b4346b02b1d8e76272bfa22b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO AVANZA · CALOZUMA ARMIJOS EFREN ESCOBAR6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,34533.8%1Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO · PANGAY CHAMBA EFREN SEGUNDO8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,29032.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA PAIS-MAR · APOLO RAMIREZ HUGO MARIO7007ecuador/S09da2a23f3/201480920.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · VALAREZO AGUILAR GALO BOLIVAR11ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143328.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SUMA · AÑAZCO VALAREZO JUAN FERNANDO13ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014731.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · PELAEZ GARCIA AURA JANETH5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014651.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO · AÑAZCO APOLO BOLIVAR GUILLERMO1ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014601.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

68.980–100 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=8.837209302325583, oldest_gap=1.3839959738298973, previous_gap=2.5434782608695663

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

16.3percentage 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=[[1.9817997977755308,0,0,0,0,0,98.01820020222446],[12.5,0,5.782608695652174,0,0,0,81.71739130434781],[8.354302969300454,33.84499245093105,1.6356316054353297,32.460996477101155,1.8369401107196779,0,21.867136386512332]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

68.14percentage 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=[[1.9817997977755308,0,0,0,0,0,98.01820020222446],[12.5,0,5.782608695652174,0,0,0,81.71739130434781],[8.354302969300454,33.84499245093105,1.6356316054353297,32.460996477101155,1.8369401107196779,0,21.867136386512332]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

42.22percentage 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=[[1.9817997977755308,0,0,0,0,0,98.01820020222446],[12.5,0,5.782608695652174,0,0,0,81.71739130434781],[8.354302969300454,33.84499245093105,1.6356316054353297,32.460996477101155,1.8369401107196779,0,21.867136386512332]]

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
2026-08-115,952
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 860,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 7,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 5952,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-7-860",
  "name": "MARCABELÍ / EL ORO",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    1060,
    1061,
    1062
  ],
  "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. “MARCABELÍ / EL ORO — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-7-860. 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.