Ecuadorian general election, 1978–1979

Ecuadorian general election, 1984

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

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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
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
Jaime Roldós Aguilera	Concentration of People's Forces	381,215	27.7	1,025,148	68.5
Sixto Durán Ballén	Social Christian Party	328,461	23.9	471,657	31.5
Raúl Clemente Huerta	Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party	311,983	22.7
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos	Democratic Left	165,258	12.0
Abdón Calderón	Alfarista Radical Front	124,347	9.0
René Maugé	Broad Front of the Left	65,187	4.7
Invalid/blank votes		199,915	–	184,481	–
Total		1,576,366	100	1,681,286	100
Registered voters/turnout		2,088,874	75.46	2,088,874	80.5
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

Party	Nationwide			District			Total seats
Party	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
Concentration of People's Forces	445,229	30.9	4	454,910	31.7	25	29
Democratic Left	265,068	18.4	2	212,091	14.8	13	15
Social Christian Party	123,411	8.6	1	91,384	6.4	2	3
Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party	115,110	8.0	1	138,456	9.7	3	4
Conservative Party	112,909	7.8	1	126,942	8.9	9	10
Revolutionary Nationalist Party	108,437	7.4	1	65,150	4.5	1	2
Democratic Institutionalist Coalition	90,277	6.3	1	85,835	6.0	2	3
Democratic People's Movement	68,892	4.8	1	70,590	4.9	0	1
People's Democratic Union	44,810	3.1	0	64,249	4.5	1	1
Velasquista National Federation	37,740	2.6	0	42,840	3.0	1	1
Socialist Party of Revolutionary People's Action	26,849	1.9	0	37,596	2.6	0	0
Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action	–	–	–	43,483	3.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	236,373	–	–	245,398	–	–	–
Total	1,675,195	100	12	1,678,924	100	57	69
Registered voters/turnout	2,088,874	80.2	–	2,088,874	80.4	–	–
Source: Nohlen, IPU

References

1 2 Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p379 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
↑ Enciclopedia Electoral Latinoamericana y del Caribe, p300
↑ Nohlen, p395

Elections and referendums in Ecuador

Presidential elections	1856 1865 1868 1875 October 1875 1888 1892 1901 1905 1911 1912 1916 1920 1924 1931 1932 1933 1940 1948 1952 1956 1960 1968 1978–79 1984 1988 1992 1996 1998 2002 2006 2009 2013 2017

Parliamentary elections	1906 1929 1931 1932 1938 1939 1945 1946 1947 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1966 1968 1970 1979 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1997 1998 2002 2006 2007 2009 2013 2017

Referendums	1869 1978 1986 1994 1995 1997 2006 2007 2008 2011

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