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PICHINCHA — Prefect
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Ecuador · PICHINCHA

PICHINCHA — Prefect

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: 74.4/100. 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 7.8 points; earlier interval 88.6 points; two-interval mean 48.2 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: 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. Current officeholder source. Primary prefect association directory; page undated 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: 17.

The precinct distribution dated 11 August 2026 assigns 2,408,731 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
MOVIMIENTO POLÍTICO REVOLUCIÓN CIUDADANAPAOLA PABON416,50027.96%1
JUNTOS POR LA GENTEGUILLERMO CHURUCHUMBI380,85925.56%0
VA POR TIEDUARDO DEL POZO234,83615.76%0
UIO, UNIDOS INCLUYENTES Y ORGANIZADOSELSA GUERRA127,0808.53%0
PARTIDO IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICAROBERTO ALTAMIRANO MONTALVO76,7585.15%0
QUITO VUELVEDANIELA ZAMBRANO57,3503.85%0
MOVIMIENTO CENTRO DEMOCRÁTICOANDREA HIDALGO44,4962.99%0
PARTIDO UNIDAD POPULARCECILIA JARAMILLO33,8802.27%0
MOVIMIENTO TODOSGONZALO PEREZ33,2632.23%0
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANOANDRES FELIPE CASTILLO30,1502.02%0
MOVIMIENTO AMIGO, ACCIÓN MOVILIZADORA INDEPENDIENTE GENERANDO OPORTUNIDADESJACINTO ESPINOZA CASTILLO28,9051.94%0
PARTIDO AVANZAKOYA SHUGULI25,7351.73%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
MOVIMIENTO F. COMPROMISO SOCIALPAOLA PABON CARANQUI311,06522.13%1
ALIANZA IZQUIERDA DEMOCRÁTICA - DEMOCRACIA SÍ - VIVEJUAN ZAPATA291,30620.72%0
ALIANZA CREO 21 - AHORA 65FEDERICO PEREZ209,45014.90%0
UNION ECUATORIANAPATRICIO UBIDIA153,09710.89%0
MOVIMIENTO CONCERTACIONESTEBAN MOSCOSO107,2397.63%0
PARTIDO SOCIAL CRISTIANODIEGO SALGADO60,8504.33%0
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA PAIS, PATRIA ALTIVA I SOBERANARENE ESPIN43,3703.09%0
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIKPABLO JAIME VELEZ RUEDA33,7912.40%0
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL PODEMOSVINICIO BAQUERO ORDOÑEZ33,5032.38%0
PARTIDO POLÍTICO AVANZAJAVIER ORTI TORRES32,4582.31%0
MOVIMIENTO ACCION DEMOCRATICA ECUATORIANA, ADEJOFFRE PINZON MERINO25,3301.80%0
PARTIDO ADELANTE ECUATORIANO ADELANTEMARIO MALDONADO SANCHEZ25,0501.78%0
ALIANZA ECUATORIANO UNIDO-PARTIDO SOCIALISTAALONSO MORENO17,2301.23%0
MOVIMIENTO TODOSANGEL ZAPATA15,2981.09%0
MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD ES PUEBLO, LEPMARCELO HALLO14,0181.00%0
CENTRO DEMOCRATICOSARA PAREDES13,1040.93%0
FUERZA.ECLUIS RAMIRO SIMBAÑA VASCONEZ10,2470.73%0
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIOTICA 21 DE ENEROBLADIMIR BERNYS CHAVEZ9,2350.66%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 PAISBAROJA NARVAEZ MILTON GUSTAVO887,90260.98%1
MOVIMIENTO CREOGOMEZ DE LA TORRE BONIFAZ RODRIGO ANTONIO412,55328.33%0
MOVIMIENTO DE UNIDAD PLURINACIONAL PACHAKUTIKPASQUEL BELTRAN JUAN FRANCISCO68,8864.73%0
PARTIDO SOCIEDAD PATRIÓTICA "21 DE ENERO"MACHUCA ARROBA JUAN CARLOS60,5914.16%0
PARTIDO ROLDOSISTA ECUATORIANOGUZHÑAY QUITO LEON ROBALINO26,1021.79%0

Result source · Seat source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record EC-P-17.