Ecuadorian general election, 1978–1979

Ecuadorian general election, 1984
Ecuador
16 July 1978 and 29 April 1979 (16 July 1978 and 29 April 1979)

 
Nominee Jaime Roldós Sixto Durán Ballén
Party CFP PSC
Running mate Osvaldo Hurtado José Icaza
Popular vote 1,025,148 471,657
Percentage 68.49% 31.51%

President before election

Alfredo Poveda
Nonpartisan

Elected President

Jaime Roldós
CFP

This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Ecuador

Politics portal

General elections were held in Ecuador in 1978 and 1979.[1] The first round of the presidential election was held on 16 July 1978, with a second round held alongside parliamentary elections on 29 April 1979.[1] The presidential election was won by Jaime Roldós Aguilera of the Concentration of People's Forces (CPF), who received 68.5% of the vote in the run-off, becoming the country's first freely-elected president.[2] The CPF emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 29 of the 69 seats.[3]

Results

President

Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Jaime Roldós AguileraConcentration of People's Forces381,21527.71,025,14868.5
Sixto Durán BallénSocial Christian Party328,46123.9471,65731.5
Raúl Clemente HuertaEcuadorian Radical Liberal Party311,98322.7
Rodrigo Borja CevallosDemocratic Left165,25812.0
Abdón CalderónAlfarista Radical Front124,3479.0
René MaugeBroad Front of the Left65,1874.7
Invalid/blank votes199,915184,481
Total1,576,3661001,681,286100
Registered voters/turnout2,088,87475.462,088,87480.5
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

Party Nationwide District Total
seats
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Concentration of People's Forces445,22930.94454,91031.72529
Democratic Left265,06818.42212,09114.81315
Social Christian Party123,4118.6191,3846.423
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party115,1108.01138,4569.734
Conservative Party112,9097.81126,9428.9910
Revolutionary Nationalist Party108,4377.4165,1504.512
Democratic Institutionalist Coalition90,2776.3185,8356.023
Democratic People's Movement68,8924.8170,5904.901
People's Democratic Union44,8103.1064,2494.511
Velasquista National Federation37,7402.6042,8403.011
Socialist Party of Revolutionary People's Action26,8491.9037,5962.600
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action43,4833.000
Invalid/blank votes236,373245,398
Total1,675,195100121,678,9241005769
Registered voters/turnout2,088,87480.22,088,87480.4
Source: Nohlen, IPU

References

  1. 1 2 Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p379 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. Enciclopedia Electoral Latinoamericana y del Caribe, p300
  3. Nohlen, p395
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, May 11, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.