2009 Ecuadorian general election
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Early general elections were held in
Among the candidates for President were current President Rafael Correa, supported by his
January 21 Patriotic Society Party
.
Preliminary results suggested that Correa had won reelection in the first round easily,[4] surpassing 50% of the vote, followed by Gutiérrez coming in second with about 28% of the vote. Correa's came short of having an absolute majority in parliament.
In addition Correa became the first sitting president to be reelected since García Moreno since 1875.[5]
The full results of the seat distribution was still known, though it was assumed that PAIS would have 59 seats, PSP 19, PSC/MG 11, PRIAN 7, MPD 5, the Municipalist Movement 5, and others less than 5 seats.
Opinion polls
Date | Pollster | Correa | Gutiérrez | Noboa
|
Roldós | Sagñay | Jácome | Delgado | Gonzáles |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
02/08/08 | S.P.Investigaciones | 38% | 6% | 6% | – | – | – | – | – |
23/01/09 | Informe Confidencial | 54% | 8% | – | 5% | – | – | – | – |
21/02/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 54% | 11% | 13% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
28/02/09 | Perfiles de Opinión | 48% | 9.5% | 11.5% | 4% | – | – | – | – |
28/02/09 | Informe Confidencial | 47.5% | 5.5% | 12.5% | 6% | – | – | – | – |
01/03/09 | CMS | 47.41% | 5.82% | 4.81% | 1.84% | – | – | – | – |
08/03/09 | Informe Confidencial | 48% | 9% | 10% | – | – | – | – | – |
10/03/09 | Informe Confidencial | 47.5% | – | 12.5% | – | – | – | – | – |
09/03/09 | S.P.Investigaciones[permanent dead link] | 50% | 13% | 11% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
15/03/09 | Perfiles de Opinión | 47% | 10% | 13% | 8% | – | – | – | – |
15/03/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 54% | 11% | 13% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
15/03/09 | CEDATOS | 46% | 11% | 14% | 4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% |
16/03/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 53% | 13% | 11% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
21/03/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 52% | 12% | 11% | 8% | – | – | – | – |
22/03/09 | Informe Confidencial | 48% | 7.5% | 15% | – | – | – | – | – |
23/03/09 | Perfiles de Opinión | 47.5% | 7% | 16% | 10% | – | – | – | – |
25/03/09 | CMS[permanent dead link] | 55% | – | 13% | – | – | – | – | – |
27/03/09 | CEDATOS | 48.5% | 14.6% | 12.9% | 7.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% |
28/03/09 | CMS | 52% | 9% | 8% | – | – | – | – | – |
28/03/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 53% | 12% | 12% | 6% | – | – | – | – |
30/03/09 | Informe Confidencial | 48% | 9% | 10% | 5% | – | – | – | – |
03/04/09 | CEDATOS | 49.2% | 15.3% | 13.2% | 7.2% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.5% |
03/04/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 53.7% | 12.4% | 10.1% | 6.5% | – | – | – | – |
06/04/09 | Market | 57.5% | 12.7% | 13.5% | 6% | – | – | – | – |
06/04/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 51% | 13% | 12% | 9% | – | – | – | – |
06/04/09 | CMS | 47.6% | 15% | 8.6% | 6.4% | – | – | – | – |
06/04/09 | CEDATOS | 50.5% | 17.7% | 15.3% | 8.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.6% |
26/04/09 | CEDATOS | 55.2% | 27.7% | 10.2% | 3.4% | – | – | – | – |
26/04/09 | S.P.Investigaciones | 56% | 29% | 8% | 4% | – | – | – | – |
26/04/09 | CMS | 54.92% | 23.74% | 7.74% | 6% | – | – | – | – |
Results
President
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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PAIS Alliance | 3,586,439 | 51.99 | ||
Lucio Gutiérrez | January 21 Patriotic Society Party | 1,947,830 | 28.24 | |
Álvaro Noboa | Institutional Renewal Party of National Action | 786,718 | 11.41 | |
Martha Roldós | Ethics and Democracy Network | 298,765 | 4.33 | |
Carlos Sagñay | Thousandfold Victory | 108,079 | 1.57 | |
Melba Jácome | Fertile Earth Movement | 93,146 | 1.35 | |
Diego Delgado Jara | Social Integration and Transformation | 43,221 | 0.63 | |
Carlos Gonzáles | Independent Just and Solidary Movement | 33,714 | 0.49 | |
Total | 6,897,912 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 6,897,912 | 87.00 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,030,836 | 13.00 | ||
Total votes | 7,928,748 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 10,532,234 | 75.28 | ||
Source: CNE |
National Assembly
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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National | Provincial | Overseas | Total | +/– | ||||
Social Christian Party | 8,559,831 | 13.28 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 | +6 | |
Institutional Renewal Party of National Action | 3,875,395 | 6.01 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | –1 | |
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 2,872,465 | 4.46 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +2 | |
Democratic People's Movement | 2,766,276 | 4.29 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 | |
Ethics and Democracy Network | 1,350,937 | 2.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –3 | |
National Democratic Coalition | 1,341,635 | 2.08 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | |
Municipalist Movement for National Integrity | 1,246,643 | 1.93 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | New | |
Democratic Left | 1,108,744 | 1.72 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country | 948,638 | 1.47 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
Christian Democratic Union | 732,287 | 1.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fertile Earth Movement | 619,766 | 0.96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |
National Agreement | 482,598 | 0.75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Social Integration and Transformation | 288,698 | 0.45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Thousandfold Victory | 283,124 | 0.44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent Just and Solidary Movement | 256,805 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
National Movement for Social Reconciliation | 198,630 | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Independents and regionalists | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 7 | |||
Total | 64,463,992 | 100.00 | 15 | 103 | 6 | 124 | –6 | |
Source: CNE |
References
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- ^ http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={770AB960-1BD0-4417-8B3F-364526BF6886})&language=EN Archived March 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "International news - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - English". Archived from the original on 3 May 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ http://www.vistazo.com/ea/columnas/imprimir.php?Vistazo.com&id=2391[permanent dead link]