2013 Ecuadorian general election
17 February 2013
Presidential election
 
Nominee Rafael Correa Guillermo Lasso Lucio Gutiérrez
Party PAIS Alliance CREO PSP
Running mate Jorge Glas Juan Carlos Solines Pearl Boyes Fuller
Popular vote 4,918,482 1,951,102 578,875
Percentage 57.17% 22.68% 6.73%
Results by province.
President before election

Rafael Correa
PAIS Alliance

 Elected President

Rafael Correa
PAIS Alliance

General elections were held in Ecuador on 17 February 2013 to elect the President, the National Assembly, Provincial Assemblies and members of the Andean Parliament.[1] The incumbent President Rafael Correa was re-elected by a wide margin.[2] Correa's closest electoral rival, Guillermo Lasso, conceded the election shortly after it concluded.

The vote had been set for January 2013, but was put back a month to allow a full year to elapse after the reform of election rules.[3]

This was the first election since 1996 held after the natural expiration of a four-year presidential term. This was due to a decade of political and economical instability that Ecuador experienced after Abdalá Bucaram was impeached by the former Congress, in late 1997, and that lasted until Correa's inauguration in early 2007.[4]

Background

The call for general elections happened on 18 October 2012. The election campaigns were officially launched on 4 January and ended on 14 February, as announced by CNE member Juan Pablo Pozo.[5]

Voters chose the president and vice president of the Republic, as well as national and provincial assembly members, members of the Andean Parliament, mayors, prefects, and other sectional officials.[6]

The seated President Correa, a two-term incumbent, is credited with bringing stability and prosperity to Ecuador's nearly 15 million people. A staunch friend of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, he is usually described as "leftist" and "socialist." He is committed to poverty reduction through not just economic growth, but redistribution of wealth as well. As he told the CELAC Summit in 2015: "For the first time in the history of humanity this poverty is no longer due to a lack of resources, but rather is the fruit of inequality, and this, in turn, the product of perverse relations of power, where few have it all and many have nothing at all.”[7] This approach has generated fervent support as well as hostility from wealthy sectors in Ecuador; for example, his land reform policies for giving unproductive land to poor peasants has worried agribusiness, particularly the large flower and banana producers. He has vastly expanded the number of workers on the public sector and made health and education free for all Ecuadorians. Some have argued that Correa has clamped down on dissent in the country's news media, although journalists in Ecuador are not risking their lives as they are in other countries of the region.[8][9] His government has run record-high deficits. In 2009, Correa became the first president of Ecuador to win re-election in nearly a half-century.[10]

Democracy Code

In late 2012, Ecuador's Constitutional Court (CC) ruled on the adoption of the Democracy Code by a 6 to 3 vote in favor. The new resolution made the D'Hondt method of voting constitutional; therefore it was applied in the 2013 elections. The resolution also states that legal restrictions on the work of journalists during elections are unconstitutional.[11]

Presidential elections

Candidates

Eight presidential candidates were registered in the National Electoral Council.[12] The candidates were: Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance movement, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities movement, Lucio Gutiérrez of the PSP party, Alberto Acosta Espinoza, candidate of the Coordinating Committee of the Left, Norman Wray, of the Ruptura 25 movement, Nelson Zavala, of the Roldosist Party, Mauricio Rodas, of the SUMA movement, and Álvaro Noboa, of PRIAN.[13]

Restrictions of the candidate's qualifications

The National Electoral Council (Spanish-language initials, CNE) approved the regulations for the registration and qualification of candidates running for President, Vice President, Assembly and the Andean Parliament for the election. The regulations established that candidates who have contracts with the State or have received final judgments for offenses penalized with imprisonment such as bribery, illicit enrichment and embezzlement, would not be allowed to participate.[14]

Parliamentary elections

Ecuadorians not only voted on February 17 for their president and vice-president, but as well as for 137 members of the national assembly; drawn from provinces, a national list, and six migrant spots, and for their five Andean Parliament representatives.[15]

Opinion polls

Surveys generally attributed between 50% and 60% of the votes to President Correa. The seven other candidates lagged far behind; Correa's nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso, was credited with 10—20% of the vote.[16]

Date Institute Correa Lasso Gutiérrez Acosta Noboa Rodas Wray Zavala
03/08/10 CEDATOS 38% – 19% – 2.9% – – –
22/10/11 CEDATOS 40% 2.6% 5% – 3.1% – – –
13/11/11 Perfiles de Opinión 48.9% – 3.5% 6.9% 3.6% – – –
16/03/12 CMS 48.56% 4.60% 8.09% – 6.98% 0.52% – –
14/04/12 Opinión Pública 39% – 6% – 3% – – –
29/04/12 Perfiles de Opinión 50% 1% 4% 4% 3% – – –
31/05/12 Perfiles de Opinión 52% 6% 3% 2% 4% 1% – –
15/07/12 Informe Confidencial 50% 17% 8% 3% 4% 1% – –
04/08/12 Opinión Pública 43% 7% 5% 2% 4% – – –
05/08/12 Perfiles de Opinión 53.4% 14.4% 3.3% 4.9% 6.7% – – –
16/08/12 CMS 41.75% 15.82% 8.22% 6.55% 5.72% – – –
18/08/12 Opinión Pública 44% 8% 4% 2% 3% – – –
27/08/12 CEDATOS 38% 11% 6% 4% 3% – – –
08/09/12 Opinión Pública 44% 9% 5% 2% 2% 0% – –
16/09/12 Informe Confidencial 48% 18% 8% 5% 4% – – –
18/09/12 CMS 48% 10% 6% – 2% – – –
26/09/12 Perfiles de Opinión 55.5% 11.4% 6.5% 3.8% 2.7% 0.2% – –
30/09/12 Perfiles de Opinión 61.7% 12.6% 3.6% 2.6% 1.8% – – –
07/10/12 CEDATOS 44% 18% 6.9% 6.5% 2.3% – – –
09/10/12 CMS 47.08% 11.03% 3.43% 4.54% 2.57% – – –
15/10/12 CIEES 51% 13% 8% 7% 5% 1% – –
22/10/12 Market 38% 24% 11% 3% 4% – – –
27/10/12 Opinión Pública 54% 16% 5% 4% – – – –
30/10/12 Market 40.20% 23.19% 15.02% 6.40% 4.31% – – –
31/10/12 CEDATOS 46% 19% 8% 7% 2% – – –
10/11/12 Opinión Pública 50.5% 15.2% 4.6% 3.2% 2.4% 0.3% 0.1% –
14/11/12 Market 39% 25% 13% 6% 2% – – –
19/11/12 Perfiles de Opinión 56% 15% 7% 4% 3% – – –
28/11/12 Opinión Pública 51.2% 14.9% 5.4% 3.7% 1.8% 0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
29/11/12 CEDATOS 53% 22% 10% 8% 2% 1% 2% 2%
01/12/12 Opinión Pública 51.2% 13.8% 3.1% 4.7% 2.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4%
14/12/12 Perfiles de Opinión 62.8% 10.7% 4.1% 2.8% 2.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
15/12/12 Opinión Pública 51.2% 14.7% 6% 3.5% 3.6% 0.7% 0.9% 0.2%
21/12/12 Perfiles de Opinión 60.6% 11.2% 4.5% 3.5% 1.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%
06/01/13 CIEES 53.3% 14.95% 8.85% 2.4% 8.45% 0.55% 0.2% 0.35%
10/01/13 Opinión Pública 56.7% 12.1% 4.4% 3.4% 2% 0.5% 0.3% 0.6%
13/01/13 CMS 47.65% 7.98% 1.44% 1.57% 0.80% 0.42% 0.40% 0.34%
18/01/13 Market 49% 18% 12% 6% 4% 1% 2% 2%
23/01/13 Perfiles de Opinión 63% 9% 4% 2% 2% 1% 1% 1%
26/01/13 Opinión Pública 55.9% 12.9% 5.2% 4.4% 2.3% 1.9% 1.3% 0.6%
02/02/13 CIEES 53.1% 19.5% 6.9% 5.2% 4.3% 2.1% 2.7% 3%
05/02/13 El Comercio ARCOP 37.5% 29.5% 6.5% 4.5% 2% 1.5% 0% 1%
06/02/13 CMS 48.18% 9.98% 2.05% 1.87% 0.85% 1.36% 0.53% 0.36%
07/02/13 Perfiles de Opinión 61.5% 9.2% 3.8% 2.5% 1.6% 1.3% 0.6% 0.6%
16/02/13 Market 64.1% 16.4% 7.3% 4.5% 3.6% 2.5% 0.8% 0.9%
17/02/13 CEDATOS 61.5% 20.9% 6.0% 2.9% 3.5% 3.1% 1.0% 1.1%
17/02/13 CIEES 58.8% 23.1% 5.5% 3.0% 3.6% 3.3% 1.4% 1.3%

Results

President

CandidateRunning matePartyVotes%
Rafael CorreaJorge GlasPAIS Alliance4,918,48257.17
Guillermo LassoJuan Carlos SolinesCreating Opportunities1,951,10222.68
Lucio GutiérrezPearl Boyes FullerPatriotic Society Party578,8756.73
Mauricio RodasInés ManzanoSUMA335,5323.90
Álvaro NoboaAnabella AzínInstitutional Renewal Party of National Action319,9563.72
Alberto AcostaMarcia CaicedoPlurinational Unity of the Lefts280,5393.26
Norman WrayÁngela MendozaRuptura 25112,5251.31
Nelson ZavalaDenny CevallosEcuadorian Roldosist Party105,5921.23
Total8,602,603100.00
Valid votes8,602,60390.88
Invalid/blank votes863,2579.12
Total votes9,465,860100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,675,44181.07
Source: CNE

National Assembly

PartyVotes%Seats
NationalProvincialOverseasTotal+/–
PAIS Alliance45,955,99552.308866100+41
Creating Opportunities10,032,80411.4229011New
Social Christian Party7,901,3158.991506–5
January 21 Patriotic Society Party4,955,3205.641405–14
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts4,151,0004.721405–4
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party3,960,1884.511001–2
SUMA2,829,0343.221001New
Institutional Renewal Party of National Action2,640,1813.000000–7
Advance2,568,1562.920505New
Ruptura 252,179,3832.480000New
Socialist Party – Broad Front of Ecuador698,8290.800000–1
Independents and regionalists–303–
Total87,872,205100.001511661370
Valid votes7,359,92177.93
Invalid/blank votes2,083,79522.07
Total votes9,443,716100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,675,44180.89
Source: CNE

Andean Parliament

PartyVotes%Seats
PAIS Alliance15,806,82152.974
Creating Opportunities4,350,96914.581
Social Christian Party2,271,7547.610
Patriotic Society Party1,886,9326.320
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts1,496,1655.010
Institutional Renewal Party of National Action1,241,5034.160
Advance1,096,0883.670
Ecuadorian Roldosist Party937,8783.140
Ruptura 25754,0412.530
Total29,842,151100.005
Valid votes7,159,45775.63
Invalid/blank votes2,306,37424.37
Total votes9,465,831100.00
Registered voters/turnout11,675,44181.07
Source: CNE

Reactions

Banker Guillermo Lasso, the runner-up in the vote, conceded his defeat in broad terms, by stating: “I recognise the triumph of President Correa.”[10] Thousands of Correa's backers celebrated in Quito's main square just after the polls closed. Speaking from the balcony of the Presidential Palace, Correa thanked them for their "immense trust.” [17]

References

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  15. ↑ Ecuador: Correa launches re-election campaign, socialists give critical support | Green Left Weekly
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