Ecuadorian general election, 2002

October 20, 2002 (2002-10-20)



Nominee	Lucio Gutiérrez	Álvaro Noboa
Party	PSP	PRIAN
Running mate	Alfredo Palacio	Marcelo Cruz
Popular vote	2,803,243	2,312,854
Percentage	54.79%	45.21%

President before election

Gustavo Noboa
DP

Elected President

Lucio Gutiérrez
PSP

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General elections were held in Ecuador on 20 October 2002, with a second round of the presidential elections on 24 November.^[1] The result was a victory for Lucio Gutiérrez of the PSP–MUPP–NP alliance, who won the run-off with 54.8% of the vote.^[2] The Social Christian Party emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 24 of the 100 seats.^[3]

Results

President

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
Lucio Gutiérrez	PSP–MUPP–NP	943,123	20.6	2,803,243	54.8
Álvaro Noboa	Institutional Renewal Party of National Action	794,614	17.4	2,312,854	45.2
León Roldós Aguilera	Citizen Force Movement	703,593	15.4
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos	Democratic Left	638,142	14.0
Xavier Neira Menéndez	Social Christian Party	553,106	12.1
Jacobo Bucarám Ortíz	Ecuadorian Roldosist Party	544,688	11.9
Jacinto Velazquez	Independent Social Transformation Movement	169,311	3.7
Ivonne Juez	PLRE–Metamorfosis	79,598	1.7
César Alarcon	Freedom Party	54,793	1.2
Osvaldo Hurtado	Solidarity Fatherland Movement	49,043	1.1
Carlos Varas	Independent Amauta Jatari Movement	39,171	0.9
Invalid/blank votes		729,399	–	691,012	–
Total		5,298,581	100	5,807,109	100
Registered voters/turnout		8,154,425	65.0	8,154,425	71.2
Source: Nohlen

National Congress

**Summary of the 20 October 2002 National Congress of Ecuador election results**
Parties and alliances		%	Seats
	Social Christian Party (Ecuador)	.	26
	Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática)	.	16
	Ecuadorian Roldosist Party	.	15
	Pluri-National Pachakutik United Movement - New Country (Movimiento Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik - Nuevo País)	.	11
	Institutional Renewal Party of National Action	.	10
	January 21 Patriotic Society Party	.	6
	People's Democracy-Christian Democratic Union (Democracia Popular-Unión Demócrata Cristiana)	.	4
	Ecuadorian Socialist Party-Broad Front	.	3
	Democratic People's Movement	.	3
	Concentration of People's Forces	.	1
	Freedom Party (Partido Libertad)	.	1
	Movement Civic New Country (Movimiento Ciudadano Nuevo País)	.	1
	Solidary Fatherland Movement (Movimiento Patria Solidaria)	.	1
	Provincial Integration Movement (Movimiento Integración Provincial)	.	1
	Democratic Transformation (Transformación Democrática)		1
Total (turnout 63.5%)			100
Source: La Hora

References

↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p380 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
↑ Nohlen, p404
↑ Elections held in 2002 IPU

Elections and referendums in Ecuador

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