Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly election, 2007
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On 30 September 2007 an election for a Constituent Assembly was held in Ecuador following the referendum on this issue successfully held on 15 April 2007. 130 delegates were elected: 24 members from national lists, 100 representing the provinces and six for emigrants living outside Ecuador.[1]
Due to the extraordinarly large number of candidates and lists (26 national lists, 428 provincial lists, 44 emigrant lists) the election was the most complex in Ecuador's history.[1] Although polls indicated that Correa's PAIS Alliance would win a plurality in the election, but not a majority,[2] PAIS won a landslide victory, winning at least 72 of the 130 seats, giving the party the power to dismiss Congress and make the substantial constitutional reforms for which Correa has been calling.[3] PAIS won all six foreign seats.[4]
The Constituent Assembly was to be be set up on 31 October 2007, and from then it will have six months (with a possible extension of two months) to draft a new constitution, which will then have to be ratified in a referendum.[2] However, the installation of the Assembly was delayed to 29 November 2007[3] due to delays in the official proclamation of the final result.
Note that some of the provincial seats were won by coalitions of parties running separately on the national slate; due to different distributions of these joint Assembly members, reports on the number of seats won by each party may vary from source to source.
| Parties | Votes (national) |
% | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | Provincial | Abroad | TOTAL | |||
| PAIS Alliance (Alianza PAIS) | 2,806,004 | 69.47 | 15 | 59 | 6 | 80 |
| January 21 Patriotic Society Party (Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero) | 294,240 | 7.28 | 2 | 17 | — | 19 |
| Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (Partido Renovador Institucional de Acción Nacional) | 267,605 | 6.62 | 2 | 6 | — | 8 |
| Social Christian Party (Partido Social Cristiano) | 156,840 | 3.88 | 1 | 4 | — | 5 |
| Ethics and Democracy Network (Red Ética y Democracia) | 80,927 | 2.00 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 |
| Democratic People's Movement (Movimiento Popular Democrático) | 68,060 | 1.68 | 1 | 3 | — | 4 |
| A New Option (Una Nueva Opción) | 45,127 | 1.12 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
| Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) | 32,332 | 0.80 | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| PS-FA–MUPP-NP Alliance (Alianza PS-FA–MUPP-NP) | 28,635 | 0.71 | — | 4 | — | 4 |
| Movement for National Honesty (Movimiento Honradez Nacional) | 28,198 | 0.70 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| National Agreement (Acuerdo Nacional) | 26,358 | 0.65 | — | — | — | — |
| ID–MPC Alliance (Alianza ID/MPC) | 21,759 | 0.54 | — | 2 | — | 2 |
| Freedom Party (Partido Libertad) | 19,036 | 0.47 | — | — | — | — |
| Ecuadorian White Movement for the Vindication of the Poor (Movimient Blanco Ecuatoriano por la Reivindicación de los Pobres) | 17,813 | 0.44 | — | — | — | — |
| Christian Democratic Union (Unión Demócrata Cristiana) | 17,450 | 0.43 | — | — | — | — |
| Independent Movement of Committed Seculars (Movimiento Independiente Laicos Comprometidos) | 17,264 | 0.43 | — | — | — | — |
| Movement Ecuador's Force (Movimiento Fuerza Ecuador) | 16,445 | 0.41 | — | — | — | — |
| Christian Civic Compromise with the Community C4 (Compromiso Cívico Cristiano con la Comunidad C4) | 15,594 | 0.39 | — | — | — | — |
| MCSXXI/MAE/MTF Alliance (Alianza MCSXXI/MAE/MTF) | 15,279 | 0.38 | — | — | — | — |
| National Democratic Coalition (Concertación Nacional Democrática) | 13,285 | 0.33 | — | — | — | — |
| Independent Movement Democratic Pole (Movimiento Independiente Polo Democrático) | 13,037 | 0.32 | — | — | — | — |
| National Reconciliation (Conciliación Nacional) | 11,663 | 0.29 | — | — | — | — |
| Independent Just and Solidary Movement (Movimiento Independiente Justo y Solidario) | 7,883 | 0.20 | — | — | — | — |
| National Movement for Social Reconciliation (Movimiento Nacional por la Conciliación Social) | 7,026 | 0.17 | — | — | — | — |
| Thousandfold Victory (Triunfo Mil) | 6,815 | 0.17 | — | — | — | — |
| Social Integration and Transformation (Integración y Transformación Social) | 4,718 | 0.12 | — | — | — | — |
| Citizens' Independent Movement Future Already (Movimiento Ciudadano Independiente Futuro Ya; only contested provincial elections) | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Valid (turnout 73.2%) | 4,039,393 | 100.00 | 24 | 100 | 6 | 130 |
| Invalid | 665,776 | |||||
| Blank | 429,120 | |||||
| Total | 5,134,289 | |||||
| Source: TSE | ||||||
[edit] References
- ^ "Ecuador to Hold Most Complex Elections in History", Prensa Latina, September 17, 2007.
- ^ "Ecuadorans vote for Constituent Assembly", Xinhua (People's Daily Online), October 1, 2007.
- ^ Correa’s Approval Soars After Vote in Ecuador: Angus Reid Global Monitor
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