1988 Ecuadorian general election

1988 Ecuadorian general election

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Presidential election
31 January 1988 (first round)
8 May 1988 (second round)
 
Nominee Rodrigo Borja Cevallos Abdalá Bucaram
Party ID PRE
Running mate Luis Parodi Valverde Hugo Caicedo [es]
Popular vote 1,700,648 1,448,498
Percentage 54.0% 46.0%

Second round results by province

President before election

León Febres Cordero
PSC

Elected President

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
ID

General elections were held in Ecuador on 31 January 1988, with a second round of the presidential elections on 8 May.[1] Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left won the presidential elections, receiving 54% of the vote in the second round,[2] whilst the Democratic Left remained the largest faction in the National Congress, winning 31 of the 72 seats.[3]

Results

President

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Rodrigo Borja CevallosDemocratic Left744,40924.481,700,64854.00
Abdalá BucaramEcuadorian Roldosist Party535,48217.611,448,49846.00
Sixto Durán BallénSocial Christian PartyConservative Party447,67214.72
Frank Vargas PazzosAPRE [es]PSE384,18912.63
Jamil MahuadPopular Democracy351,78711.57
Ángel Duarte ValverdeConcentration of People's Forces239,0567.86
Jaime HurtadoFADIMPD152,9705.03
Carlos Julio EmanuelAlfarista Radical Front102,7083.38
Miguel Ángel AlbornozEcuadorian Radical Liberal Party48,9701.61
Guillermo SotomayorRepublican Party [es]33,7341.11
Total3,040,977100.003,149,146100.00
Valid votes3,040,97783.713,149,14687.17
Invalid/blank votes591,86516.29463,48912.83
Total votes3,632,842100.003,612,635100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,679,68477.634,649,68477.70
Source: Nohlen

National Congress

PartyNationwideDistrictTotal
seats
+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Democratic Left601,40921.763635,59022.702831+7
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party449,65316.272456,52416.3168+5
Social Christian Party310,95011.251347,44612.4178–1
Popular Democracy294,36210.651304,29410.8778+3
Concentration of People's Forces194,7237.051226,1728.0845–2
Conservative Party193,5337.00155,9862.0001–1
Broad Front of the Left189,9836.88166,8932.39120
Alfarista Radical Front147,0715.321110,1683.9412–4
Socialist Party137,8534.991120,4584.3034+3
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party97,4053.52076,3802.7311–3
Democratic Party [es]69,7632.52055,7831.9900–3
People, Change, Democracy [es]35,2101.27032,5771.16000
People's Party22,7880.82011,8290.4200New
Republican Party [es]18,6710.68015,3540.5500New
Democratic People's Movement163,5625.8422–1
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action [es]120,4454.30000
Total2,763,374100.00122,799,461100.006072+2
Valid votes2,763,37476.722,799,46177.53
Invalid/blank votes838,59823.28811,12022.47
Total votes3,601,972100.003,610,581100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,649,68477.474,649,68477.65
Source: Nohlen, Córdova

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p379 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ^ Nohlen, p402
  3. ^ Nohlen, p395