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LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO / GUAYAS — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO / GUAYAS / GUAYAS · municipal · MayorEC-M-9-920

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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
LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO / GUAYAS / GUAYAS
Next election
2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event
next-fabbef362da91eb567c6c7f0
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 OPORTUNIDADES28.9%
  • PSC-MADERA DE GUERRERO28.5%
  • ALIANZA DEL FUTURO15.6%
  • ALIANZA POR LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO11.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA7.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MÁS ACCIÓN, SUMA5.6%
  • PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO2.3%
  • JUVENTUD FEMENINA0.4%
Results for event-4973ba296fc3be8ad6ad739c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · ISIDRO MORAN ESPINOZA99ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,58628.9%1Recorded
PSC-MADERA DE GUERRERO · ELVIS ESPINOZA1167ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20233,53828.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA DEL FUTURO · ROXANA ELIZABETH MORAN1350ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,94015.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA POR LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO · MARCOS ZAMBRANO1399ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20231,40611.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · MARCIA ORTIZ CHIPRE207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20239067.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD UNIDA MÁS ACCIÓN, SUMA · DAVID ORTIZ MORAN42ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20236945.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA 21 DE ENERO · KARIM BRIONES NAVARRETE34ecuador/Sa5c026518f/20232912.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUVENTUD FEMENINA · NAIDELIN PEÑAFIEL VARGAS1336ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023480.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • 6-MADERA DE GUERRERO26.8%
  • CENTRO DEMOCRATICO21.6%
  • UNIDAD POPULAR12.4%
  • FUERZA.EC10.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES9.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO JUSTICIA SOCIAL8.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO SALUD Y TRABAJO4.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ2.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO PATRIA ALTIVA Y SOBERANA - MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO2.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP0.5%
  • UNION ECUATORIANA0.4%
  • PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE0.3%
Results for event-4dd290a676d1a3ab77e86d3c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
6-MADERA DE GUERRERO · ELVIS ESPINOZA ESPINOZA534ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193,07726.8%1Recorded
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · ISIDRO MORAN ESPINOZA145ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192,47821.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIDAD POPULAR · MARCOS JESUS ZAMBRANO143ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,42012.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FUERZA.EC · JUAN FRANCISCO RONQUILLO SALAS146ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,23510.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO, CREANDO OPORTUNIDADES · MAGALY ESPINOZA ROMERO22ecuador/Sed7b513864/20191,1059.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO JUSTICIA SOCIAL · MARTHA DECKER MORA170ecuador/Sed7b513864/20199678.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO SALUD Y TRABAJO · LUPE MORAN24ecuador/Sed7b513864/20194764.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA SÍ · DAVID MORAN198ecuador/Sed7b513864/20193142.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO PATRIA ALTIVA Y SOBERANA - MOVIMIENTO ECUATORIANO UNIDO · CHRISTIAN GOMEZ LOZANO671ecuador/Sed7b513864/20192862.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP · JOSE LUIS MURILLO235ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019540.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNION ECUATORIANA · SONIA CASTRO FRANCO51ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019450.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE · EROL MONCADA158ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019310.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • ALIANZA PAIS Y MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO33.2%
  • PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO22.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO CREO15.6%
  • PARTIDO AVANZA13.2%
  • ALIANZA PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA LISTA 3, PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO LISTA 6 Y EL MOVIMIENTO MADERA DE GUERRERO LISTA 759.0%
  • PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO4.0%
  • PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO2.6%
Results for event-a1b63545d23552994b608f1f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
ALIANZA PAIS Y MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · NAVARRETE BUENO SEGUNDO ARTURO9017ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142,78733.2%1Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA FRENTE AMPLIO · ESPINOZA ORTIZ VOLTAIRE10ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,88422.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO · ESPINOZA ROMERO MAGALY BARTOLA8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,31315.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · MORAN ESPINOZA ISIDRO6ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20141,11113.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALIANZA PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA LISTA 3, PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO LISTA 6 Y EL MOVIMIENTO MADERA DE GUERRERO LISTA 75 · HUNGRIA GONZALEZ ANDRES9018ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20147559%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO · PEÑAFIEL PEÑAFIEL GABRIEL OMAR1ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20143364%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO MOVIMIENTO POPULAR DEMOCRATICO · GONZALEZ VELASCO MARIA BREINYS2ecuador/S09da2a23f3/20142172.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

85.650–100 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=0.3868160206301887, oldest_gap=10.746162084969654, previous_gap=5.214136490250695

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

19.28percentage 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=[[0,0,0,28.89838020791361,0,0,71.1016197920864],[0,0,0,9.618732590529248,0,0,90.38126740947075],[0,13.221468523146495,0,15.625371890991312,0,0,71.1531595858622]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

19.23percentage 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=[[0,0,0,28.89838020791361,0,0,71.1016197920864],[0,0,0,9.618732590529248,0,0,90.38126740947075],[0,13.221468523146495,0,15.625371890991312,0,0,71.1531595858622]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

19.25percentage 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=[[0,0,0,28.89838020791361,0,0,71.1016197920864],[0,0,0,9.618732590529248,0,0,90.38126740947075],[0,13.221468523146495,0,15.625371890991312,0,0,71.1531595858622]]

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
2026-08-1117,137
Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.
{
  "call_source_id": "SA40-EC-CALL",
  "cne_canton": 920,
  "cne_parish": null,
  "cne_province": 9,
  "election_date": "2026-11-29",
  "electors_august": 17137,
  "jurisdiction_id": "EC-M-9-920",
  "name": "LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO / GUAYAS",
  "office": "Mayor",
  "precinct_rows": [
    1465,
    1466,
    1864
  ],
  "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. “LOMAS DE SARGENTILLO / GUAYAS — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-M-9-920. 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.