List of political parties in Ecuador
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This article lists political parties in Ecuador.
Ecuador has a multi-party system with numerous parties, in which usually no single party has a chance of gaining power alone, so parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Registered parties
Party/Movement | Nº | Founded | Political position |
Ideology | Leader | Assembly members |
Provincial Prefects |
Mayors | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic Center Movement Movimiento Centro Democrático |
CD | 1 | 2012 | Centre | Big tent Social liberalism |
Guillermo Rodríguez | 2 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
17 / 221 | ||
Popular Unity Movement Movimiento Unidad Popular |
UP | 2 | 2014 | Left-wing | Revolutionary socialism Primordialism |
Geovanni Atarihuana | 1 / 137 |
1 / 23 |
13 / 221 | ||
Patriotic Society Party Partido Sociedad Patriótica |
PSP | 3 | 2002 | Right-wing | Populism Personalism |
Lucio Gutiérrez | 1 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
9 / 221 | ||
People, Equality and Democracy Movement Movimiento Pueblo, Igualdad y Democracia |
PID | 4 | 2022 | Centre | Big tent Pluralism |
Arturo Moreno | 14 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
5 / 221 | ||
Citizen Revolution Movement Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana |
RC | 5 | 2016 | Left-wing | Progressivism Post-neoliberalism |
Luisa González | 48 / 137 |
8 / 23 |
50 / 221 | ||
Social Christian Party Partido Social Cristiano |
PSC | 6 | 1951 | Right-wing | Neoliberalism Christian democracy |
Alfredo Serrano | 15 / 137 |
2 / 23 |
28 / 221 | ||
Advance Party Partido Avanza |
AVANZA | 8 | 2012 | Right-wing | Neoliberalism Big tent |
Javier Orti | 2 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
17 / 221 | ||
Democratic Left Party Partido Izquierda Democrática |
ID | 12 | 1970 | Centre-left | Social liberalism Social democracy |
Analía Ledesma | 0 / 137 |
1 / 23 |
10 / 221 | ||
AMIGO Movement Movimiento AMIGO |
AMIGO | 16 | 2020 | Centre | Big tent Pluralism |
Víctor Bravo | 1 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
2 / 221 | ||
Ecuadorian Socialist Party Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano |
PSE | 17 | 1926 | Centre-left | Social democracy Pluralism |
Gustavo Vallejo | 0 / 137 |
1 / 23 |
17 / 221 | ||
Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik |
MUPP | 18 | 1995 | Centre-left to left-wing |
Indigenism Primordialism |
Guillermo Churuchumbi | 5 / 137 |
6 / 23 |
26 / 221 | ||
Democracy Yes Movement Movimiento Democracia Sí |
DSÍ | 20 | 2018 | Centre-right | Big tent Political opportunism |
Gustavo Larrea | 0 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
7 / 221 | ||
CREO Movement Movimiento CREO |
CREO | 21 | 2012 | Right-wing | Neoliberalism Right-wing populism |
Esteban Bernal | 0 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
14 / 221 | ||
SUMA Party Partido SUMA |
SUMA | 23 | 2012 | Right-wing | Neoliberalism Political opportunism |
Guillermo Celi | 4 / 137 |
1 / 23 |
25 / 221 | ||
Build Movement Movimiento Construye |
MC25 | 25 | 2012 | Right-wing | Neoliberalism | Iván González | 20 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
11 / 221 | ||
RETO Movement Movimiento RETO |
RETO | 33 | 2012 | Centre-right | Big tent Political opportunism |
Eduardo Sánchez | 1 / 137 |
0 / 23 |
22 / 221 |
Unregistered parties
Party / Movement | Founded | Political Position | Ideology | Leader | National Affiliation | International Affiliation | |||
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Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista del Ecuador |
PCE | 1926 | Far-left | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Winston Alarcón Elizalde | United Front (2014-2018) | IMCWP World Anti-Imperialist Platform | ||
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Partido Comunista de Ecuador - Sol Rojo |
PCE-SR | 1993 | Far-left | Comrade Joselo | ICL | ||||
Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador |
PCMLE | 1964 | Far-left | Oswaldo Palacios | MPD (1978–2014) UP (since 2014) |
ICMLPO | |||
Workers' Party of Ecuador Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador |
PTE | 1996 | Far-left | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
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Ecuadorian Communist Party | ECP | 2012 | Far-left | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Paúl Almeida | United Front (2014-2018) | São Paulo Forum |
Defunct parties
- Alfarist Radical Front (FRA)
- A New Option (UNO)
- Democratic People's Movement (MPD)
- Christian Democratic Union (Ecuador) (DP)
- Concentration of People's Forces (CFP)
- Conservative Party (Ecuador) (PCE)
- Ecuadorian Popular Revolutionary Union
- Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party (PLRE)
- Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE)
- Freedom Party (Ecuador) (PL)
- Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN)
- Movement Ecuador's Force (MFE)
- PAIS Alliance
- Solidarity Fatherland Movement (MPS)
- Ethics and Democracy Network (RED)
- Velasquist National Federation (FNV)
- Force Ecuador (FE)
- Coalition Movement (MC)