2017 Ecuadorian general election

2017 general elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens.

2017 Ecuadorian general election

19 February 2017 (first round) 2 April 2017 (second round)

Presidential election

Nominee Lenín Moreno Guillermo Lasso Party PAIS Alliance CREO Alliance United Front Alliance for Change Running mate Jorge Glas Andrés Páez Popular vote 5,062,018 4,833,389 Percentage 51.16% 48.84%

Lenín Moreno   Guillermo Lasso

President before election Rafael Correa PAIS Alliance Elected President Lenin Moreno PAIS Alliance

Background

Voters elected a new President and National Assembly.

Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served two terms. In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote. Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off.

As a result, a second round was held on 2 April. In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.

Results

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Lenín Moreno	PAIS Alliance	3,716,343	39.36	5,062,018	51.16
	Guillermo Lasso	Creating Opportunities	2,652,403	28.09	4,833,389	48.84
	Cynthia Viteri	Social Christian Party	1,540,903	16.32
	Paco Moncayo	National Agreement for Change	634,033	6.71
	Abdalá Bucaram, Jr.	Fuerza Ecuador	455,187	4.82
	Iván Espinel Molina	Fuerza Compromiso Social	299,840	3.18
	Patricio Zuquilanda Duque	Patriotic Society Party	72,679	0.77
	Washington Pesántez	Movimiento Unión Ecuatoriana	71,107	0.75
Invalid/blank votes			1,022,812	–	740,167	–
Total			10,470,174	100	10,635,574	100
Registered voters/turnout			12,816,698	81.63	12,816,698	82.98
Source: CNE Archived 2018-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, CNE Archived 2017-08-12 at the Wayback Machine