1988 Ecuadorian general election

1988 Ecuadorian general election

Presidential election

31 January 1988 (first round) 8 May 1988 (second round)

Nominee Rodrigo Borja Cevallos Abdalá Bucaram Party ID PRE Running mate Luis Parodi Valverde Hugo Caicedo Popular vote 1,700,648 1,448,498 Percentage 54.0% 46.0%

Second round results by province

President before election León Febres Cordero PSC Elected President Rodrigo Borja Cevallos ID

General elections were held in Ecuador on 31 January 1988, with a second round of the presidential elections on 8 May. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left won the presidential elections, receiving 54% of the vote in the second round, whilst the Democratic Left remained the largest faction in the National Congress, winning 31 of the 72 seats.

Results

President

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Rodrigo Borja Cevallos	Democratic Left	744,409	24.48	1,700,648	54.00
	Abdalá Bucaram	Ecuadorian Roldosist Party	535,482	17.61	1,448,498	46.00
	Sixto Durán Ballén	Social Christian Party–Conservative Party	447,672	14.72
	Frank Vargas Pazzos	APRE–PSE	384,189	12.63
	Jamil Mahuad	Popular Democracy	351,787	11.57
	Ángel Duarte Valverde	Concentration of People's Forces	239,056	7.86
	Jaime Hurtado	FADI–MPD	152,970	5.03
	Carlos Julio Emanuel	Alfarista Radical Front	102,708	3.38
	Miguel Ángel Albornoz	Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party	48,970	1.61
	Guillermo Sotomayor	Republican Party	33,734	1.11
Total			3,040,977	100.00	3,149,146	100.00
Valid votes			3,040,977	83.71	3,149,146	87.17
Invalid/blank votes			591,865	16.29	463,489	12.83
Total votes			3,632,842	100.00	3,612,635	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			4,679,684	77.63	4,649,684	77.70
Source: Nohlen

National Congress

Party		Nationwide			District			Total seats	+/–
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic Left	601,409	21.76	3	635,590	22.70	28	31	+7
	Ecuadorian Roldosist Party	449,653	16.27	2	456,524	16.31	6	8	+5
	Social Christian Party	310,950	11.25	1	347,446	12.41	7	8	–1
	Popular Democracy	294,362	10.65	1	304,294	10.87	7	8	+3
	Concentration of People's Forces	194,723	7.05	1	226,172	8.08	4	5	–2
	Conservative Party	193,533	7.00	1	55,986	2.00	0	1	–1
	Broad Front of the Left	189,983	6.88	1	66,893	2.39	1	2	0
	Alfarista Radical Front	147,071	5.32	1	110,168	3.94	1	2	–4
	Socialist Party	137,853	4.99	1	120,458	4.30	3	4	+3
	Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party	97,405	3.52	0	76,380	2.73	1	1	–3
	Democratic Party	69,763	2.52	0	55,783	1.99	0	0	–3
	People, Change, Democracy	35,210	1.27	0	32,577	1.16	0	0	0
	People's Party	22,788	0.82	0	11,829	0.42	0	0	New
	Republican Party	18,671	0.68	0	15,354	0.55	0	0	New
	Democratic People's Movement				163,562	5.84	2	2	–1
	Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action				120,445	4.30	0	0	0
Total		2,763,374	100.00	12	2,799,461	100.00	60	72	+2
Valid votes		2,763,374	76.72		2,799,461	77.53
Invalid/blank votes		838,598	23.28		811,120	22.47
Total votes		3,601,972	100.00		3,610,581	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,649,684	77.47		4,649,684	77.65
Source: Nohlen, Córdova