Office briefing

PICHINCHA — Prefect

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Ecuador · PICHINCHA / PICHINCHA · regional · PrefectEC-P-17

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1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography: PICHINCHA / PICHINCHA
Next election: 2026-11-29
Linked upcoming event: next-85f808179d216c8c922e23ca
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 POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA28.0%
JUNTOS POR LA GENTE25.6%
VA POR TI15.8%
UIO, UNIDOS INCLUYENTES Y ORGANIZADOS8.5%
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA5.2%
QUITO VUELVE3.8%
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO3.0%
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR2.3%
MOVIMIENTO TODOS2.2%
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO2.0%
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES1.9%
PARTIDO AVANZA1.7%

Results for event-c69dbd0ba3c809e92f80beba
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANA · PAOLA PABON	207ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	416,500	28%	1	Recorded
JUNTOS POR LA GENTE · GUILLERMO CHURUCHUMBI	1091ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	380,859	25.6%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
VA POR TI · EDUARDO DEL POZO	1418ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	234,836	15.8%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
UIO, UNIDOS INCLUYENTES Y ORGANIZADOS · ELSA GUERRA	1397ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	127,080	8.5%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA · ROBERTO ALTAMIRANO MONTALVO	117ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	76,758	5.2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
QUITO VUELVE · DANIELA ZAMBRANO	1319ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	57,350	3.8%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICO · ANDREA HIDALGO	124ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	44,496	3%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULAR · CECILIA JARAMILLO	231ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	33,880	2.3%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO TODOS · GONZALO PEREZ	149ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	33,263	2.2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · ANDRES FELIPE CASTILLO	32ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	30,150	2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADES · JACINTO ESPINOZA CASTILLO	208ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	28,905	1.9%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO AVANZA · KOYA SHUGULI	101ecuador/Sa5c026518f/2023	25,735	1.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded

2019-03-24

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

MOVIMIENTO F. COMPROMISO SOCIAL22.1%
ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA - DEMOCRACIA SÍ - VIVE20.7%
ALIANZA CREO 21 - AHORA 6514.9%
UNION ECUATORIANA10.9%
MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACION7.6%
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO4.3%
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA3.1%
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK2.4%
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL PODEMOS2.4%
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA2.3%
MOVIMIENTO ACCION DEMOCRATICA ECUATORIANA, ADE1.8%
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE1.8%
ALIANZA ECUATORIANO UNIDO-PARTIDO SOCIALISTA1.2%
MOVIMIENTO TODOS1.1%
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP1.0%
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO0.9%
FUERZA.EC0.7%
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO0.7%

Results for event-a41e7ed84851e84a44ad4c72
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO F. COMPROMISO SOCIAL · PAOLA PABON CARANQUI	148ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	311,065	22.1%	1	Recorded
ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA - DEMOCRACIA SÍ - VIVE · JUAN ZAPATA	523ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	291,306	20.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
ALIANZA CREO 21 - AHORA 65 · FEDERICO PEREZ	519ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	209,450	14.9%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
UNION ECUATORIANA · PATRICIO UBIDIA	51ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	153,097	10.9%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACION · ESTEBAN MOSCOSO	18ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	107,239	7.6%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANO · DIEGO SALGADO	1ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	60,850	4.3%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANA · RENE ESPIN	13ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	43,370	3.1%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · PABLO JAIME VELEZ RUEDA	12ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	33,791	2.4%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL PODEMOS · VINICIO BAQUERO ORDOÑEZ	142ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	33,503	2.4%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZA · JAVIER ORTI TORRES	25ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	32,458	2.3%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO ACCION DEMOCRATICA ECUATORIANA, ADE · JOFFRE PINZON MERINO	226ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	25,330	1.8%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTE · MARIO MALDONADO SANCHEZ	158ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	25,050	1.8%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
ALIANZA ECUATORIANO UNIDO-PARTIDO SOCIALISTA · ALONSO MORENO	615ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	17,230	1.2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO TODOS · ANGEL ZAPATA	166ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	15,298	1.1%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEP · MARCELO HALLO	235ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	14,018	1%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · SARA PAREDES	145ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	13,104	0.9%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
FUERZA.EC · LUIS RAMIRO SIMBAÑA VASCONEZ	146ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	10,247	0.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENERO · BLADIMIR BERNYS CHAVEZ	3ecuador/Sed7b513864/2019	9,235	0.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded

2014-02-23

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS61.0%
MOVIMIENTO CREO28.3%
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK4.7%
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"4.2%
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO1.8%

Results for event-0ae33a0fe71c6a95d02c7871
Label / candidate	Party code	Votes	Share	Seats	Status
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS · BAROJA NARVAEZ MILTON GUSTAVO	3ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	887,902	61%	1	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO CREO · GOMEZ DE LA TORRE BONIFAZ RODRIGO ANTONIO	8ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	412,553	28.3%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIK · PASQUEL BELTRAN JUAN FRANCISCO	5ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	68,886	4.7%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO" · MACHUCA ARROBA JUAN CARLOS	4ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	60,591	4.2%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANO · GUZHÑAY QUITO LEON ROBALINO	1ecuador/S09da2a23f3/2014	26,102	1.8%	0 (recorded zero)	Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

74.390–100 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=2.3923152719940504, oldest_gap=32.64683379646354, previous_gap=1.4056932033143568

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

7.79percentage 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=[[2.0237452779276848,1.727399161773432,0,0,0,0,96.24885556029889],[4.328985850583471,0,2.403956629039705,0,0,3.085425083645113,90.18163243673172],[0,0,4.731070840378727,28.334022419806132,0,60.98085621626967,5.954050523545467]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

88.56percentage points

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[2.0237452779276848,1.727399161773432,0,0,0,0,96.24885556029889],[4.328985850583471,0,2.403956629039705,0,0,3.085425083645113,90.18163243673172],[0,0,4.731070840378727,28.334022419806132,0,60.98085621626967,5.954050523545467]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.18percentage points

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PSC","Avanza","Pachakutik","CREO","SUMA","Alianza PAIS","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[2.0237452779276848,1.727399161773432,0,0,0,0,96.24885556029889],[4.328985850583471,0,2.403956629039705,0,0,3.085425083645113,90.18163243673172],[0,0,4.731070840378727,28.334022419806132,0,60.98085621626967,5.954050523545467]]

Source-reported control: Paola Pabón Caranqui; Primary prefect association directory; page undated; retrieved 12 Sep 2026; Current party affiliation unverified; older biography labels are not copied to a successor. Primary prefect association directory; page undated

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.

As of

Electors

Notes

2026-08-11

2,408,731

Dated CNE administrative observation; not historical turnout. July count, difference and spending limit are retained separately.

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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

Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-electorales-2023/?wpdmdl=39834 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019/?wpdmdl=20971 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/download/resultados-a-nivel-parroquial-2014/?wpdmdl=21133 · rights unknown
Ecuador: https://www.cne.gob.ec/distributivos-de-electores-2027/ · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2023.zip · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2023.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_resultados-dignidad-vocales-de-juntas-parroquiales-2019.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2019.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ecuador_2014.sav · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE Ecuador — ec_candidatos-2014.dat · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE 2027 precinct and electorate distribution, cutoff 11 August 2026 · rights unknown
Ecuador: CNE resolution PLE-CNE-1-31-7-2026: ordinary election call for 29 November 2026 · rights unknown

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “PICHINCHA — Prefect.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/EC-P-17. 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.