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ESMERALDAS / ESMERALDAS — Mayor
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ESMERALDAS / ESMERALDAS — Mayor

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.

Election expectation2026-11-29
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 61.6/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 6.2 points; earlier interval 55.8 points; two-interval mean 31.0 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

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

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.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4

Ordinary election register

Ordinary office verified: July 2026 call and August CNE territorial register. CNE province / canton / parish codes: 8 / 560.

The precinct distribution dated 11 August 2026 assigns 166,558 electors to this territory. CNE distribution. This administrative count is separate from historical votes and turnout. Territorial totals overlap across office types.

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2023-02-05 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Valid votes for candidates/lists

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
UNION POR LA REVOLUCION CIUDADANAVICKO VILLACIS31,55329.56%1
ESMERALDAS, ES PRIMEROFRICKSON ERAZO27,89326.13%0
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANOANA DEL ROCIO AVILA COX15,52114.54%0
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULARLUCIA SOSA8,6748.13%0
SOMOS ESMERALDAS LISTAS 1 - 23MIGUEL RUIZ8,3887.86%0
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICAERNESTO ESTUPIÑAN QUINTERO6,9606.52%0
MOVIMIENTO PUEBLO IGUALDAD DEMOCRACIA PIDFELIX ROLANDO AVELLAN MINA2,4412.29%0
VAMOS ESMERALDASWILMER COROZO VALENCIA2,3942.24%0
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIKRUBEN KLINGER MURILLO1,4191.33%0
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENEROKIKY JHON CORONADO1,0160.95%0
PARTIDO AVANZAALLISON MOSQUERA MERA4700.44%0

Result source · Seat source

2019-03-24 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Valid votes for candidates/lists

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
UNIDAD POPULARLUCIA SOSA49,09744.96%1
ALIANZA PROGRESISTALENIN LARA RIVADENEIRA36,67133.58%0
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANOTERESA YEPEZ11,05410.12%0
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍJORGE CEVALLOS3,7543.44%0
MOVIMIENTO F. COMPROMISO SOCIALXAVIER TORO2,1942.01%0
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADESEDUARDO RIVAS1,2971.19%0
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZAEMILIO VALENCIA1,2311.13%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEPJOAQUIN PALMA ORDOÑEZ9000.82%0
FUERZA.ECJUAN CARLOS PONGUILLO8750.80%0
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTEFERNANDO GUTIERREZ BEDOYA7940.73%0
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL PODEMOSLEONARDO RODRIGUEZ6540.60%0
UNION ECUATORIANAMIGUEL CASTILLO ARTIEDA4950.45%0
MOVIMIENTO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MAS ACCION, SUMAEDUARDO MALDONADO OYARVIDE1790.16%0

Result source · Seat source

2014-02-23 · ordinary

Coverage: Official votes and elected roster

Basis: Valid votes for candidates/lists

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAISLARA RIVADENEIRA LENIN JOSE46,94346.23%1
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANOZAMBRANO ORTIZ MARIA ROBERTA24,59324.22%0
PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICOAVILA PORTOCARRERO ABEL PATRICIO10,86310.70%0
PARTIDO AVANZAGALVAN GRACIA NUBIA SIMONA9,5219.38%0
ALIANZA UNIDOS POR ESMERALDASDUQUE REBOLLEDO ABRAHAM ULPIANO6,3866.29%0
MOVIMIENTO CREOQUINTERO ZUÑIGA EDER1,4321.41%0
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIOMICOLTA CUERO JULIO ENRIQUE8790.87%0
MOVIMIENTO PUEBLOORTIZ MALDONADO FERNANDO6110.60%0
PARTIDO RENOVADOR INSTITUCIONAL ACCION NACIONALTELLO BATIOJA LUIS EDUARDO3240.32%0

Result source · Seat source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record EC-M-8-560.