2017 Ecuadorian general election facts for kids
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2017 general elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens.
Background
Voters elected a new President and National Assembly.
Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served two terms. In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote. Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off.
As a result, a second round was held on 2 April. In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.
Results
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| Lenín Moreno | PAIS Alliance | 3,716,343 | 39.36 | 5,062,018 | 51.16 | ||
| Guillermo Lasso | Creating Opportunities | 2,652,403 | 28.09 | 4,833,389 | 48.84 | ||
| Cynthia Viteri | Social Christian Party | 1,540,903 | 16.32 | ||||
| Paco Moncayo | National Agreement for Change | 634,033 | 6.71 | ||||
| Abdalá Bucaram, Jr. | Fuerza Ecuador | 455,187 | 4.82 | ||||
| Iván Espinel Molina | Fuerza Compromiso Social | 299,840 | 3.18 | ||||
| Patricio Zuquilanda Duque | Patriotic Society Party | 72,679 | 0.77 | ||||
| Washington Pesántez | Movimiento Unión Ecuatoriana | 71,107 | 0.75 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,022,812 | – | 740,167 | – | |||
| Total | 10,470,174 | 100 | 10,635,574 | 100 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 12,816,698 | 81.63 | 12,816,698 | 82.98 | |||
| Source: CNE , CNE | |||||||
See also
In Spanish: Elecciones presidenciales de Ecuador de 2017 para niños
