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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 the National Congress, winning 29 of the 69 seats.[3]
The incumbent military dictatorship barred Assad Bucaram, the popular leader of the CFP from being a candidate in the election.[4]
The incumbent military dictatorship made attempts to prevent the transfer of power prior to the second round of the elections.[4]
Results
President
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round |
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| Votes | % | Votes | % |
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| Jaime Roldós Aguilera | Concentration of People's Forces | 381,215 | 27.70 | 1,025,148 | 68.49 |
| Sixto Durán Ballén | Social Christian Party | 328,461 | 23.86 | 471,657 | 31.51 |
| Raúl Clemente Huerta | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | 311,983 | 22.67 | |
| Rodrigo Borja Cevallos | Democratic Left | 165,258 | 12.01 | |
| Abdón Calderón | Alfarista Radical Front | 124,347 | 9.03 | |
| René Maugé | Broad Front of the Left | 65,187 | 4.74 | |
| Total | 1,376,451 | 100.00 | 1,496,805 | 100.00 |
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| Valid votes | 1,376,451 | 87.32 | 1,496,805 | 89.03 |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 199,915 | 12.68 | 184,481 | 10.97 |
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| Total votes | 1,576,366 | 100.00 | 1,681,286 | 100.00 |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 2,088,874 | 75.46 | 2,088,874 | 80.49 |
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| Source: Nohlen |
National Congress
| Party | Nationwide | District | Total
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats |
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| Concentration of People's Forces | 445,229 | 30.94 | 4 | 454,910 | 31.73 | 25 | 29 |
| Democratic Left | 265,068 | 18.42 | 2 | 212,091 | 14.80 | 13 | 15 |
| Social Christian Party | 123,411 | 8.58 | 1 | 91,384 | 6.37 | 2 | 3 |
| Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | 115,110 | 8.00 | 1 | 138,456 | 9.66 | 3 | 4 |
| Conservative Party | 112,909 | 7.85 | 1 | 126,942 | 8.86 | 9 | 10 |
| Revolutionary Nationalist Party | 108,437 | 7.54 | 1 | 65,150 | 4.54 | 1 | 2 |
| Democratic Institutionalist Coalition | 90,277 | 6.27 | 1 | 85,835 | 5.99 | 2 | 3 |
| Democratic People's Movement | 68,982 | 4.79 | 1 | 70,590 | 4.92 | 0 | 1 |
| People's Democratic Union | 44,810 | 3.11 | 0 | 64,249 | 4.48 | 1 | 1 |
| National Velasquista Federation | 37,740 | 2.62 | 0 | 42,840 | 2.99 | 1 | 1 |
| Socialist Party of Revolutionary People's Action | 26,849 | 1.87 | 0 | 37,596 | 2.62 | 0 | 0 |
| Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action | | 43,483 | 3.03 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1,438,822 | 100.00 | 12 | 1,433,526 | 100.00 | 57 | 69 |
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| Valid votes | 1,438,822 | 85.89 | | 1,433,526 | 85.38 | | |
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| Invalid/blank votes | 236,373 | 14.11 | | 245,398 | 14.62 | | |
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| Total votes | 1,675,195 | 100.00 | | 1,678,924 | 100.00 | | |
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| Registered voters/turnout | 2,088,874 | 80.20 | | 2,088,874 | 80.37 | | |
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| Source: Nohlen, IPU |
List of elected representatives
References
- ^ a b Dieter Nohlen (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
- ^ a b Mora, Enrique Ayala (1991), Bethell, Leslie (ed.), "Ecuador since 1930", The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America, vol. 8, Cambridge University Press, pp. 687–726, doi:10.1017/chol9780521266529.013, ISBN 978-0-521-26652-9
- ^ Almanaque Ecuador Total 1996, Publimprent S.A.
