2017 Ecuadorian general election

2017 Ecuadorian general election
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Presidential election
19 February 2017 (first round)
2 April 2017 (second round)
 
Nominee Lenín Moreno Guillermo Lasso
Party PAIS Alliance CREO
Alliance United Front Alliance for Change [es]
Running mate Jorge Glas Andrés Páez
Popular vote 5,062,018 4,833,389
Percentage 51.16% 48.84%
  Lenín Moreno
  Guillermo Lasso
President before election

Rafael Correa
PAIS Alliance

Elected President

Lenin Moreno
PAIS Alliance

General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens.[1] Voters elected a new President and National Assembly. Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served three 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.[2] In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.[3][4]

  1. ^ Referendum on tax havens will be conducted in the elections of 2017 Archived 2016-12-24 at the Wayback Machine Ecuador Times, 22 November 2016
  2. ^ Ecuador will hold run-off poll to choose new president BBC News, 23 February 2017
  3. ^ CNE plenary presented total results of the second round of elections Archived 2017-04-11 at the Wayback Machine CNE, 10 April 2017
  4. ^ El Pleno del CNE proclamó a Lenín Moreno presidente electo de Ecuador El Comercio, 18 April 2017