Ecuador - 01/01/2025

Single House:
• Political parties and movements or their alliances may present militants, sympathizers or non-affiliated persons as candidates for popular election, sympathizers or non-affiliated persons as candidates for popular election. The candidates shall be selected by means of primary elections or internal democratic electoral processes, which guarantee the electoral processes, which guarantee equal participation between men and women, applying the principles of parity applying the principles of parity, alternability, sequentiality among the affiliates or sympathizers of the political organizations, as well as the of political organizations; as well as equality in resources and opportunities for male and female candidates. (Electoral Law, article 94)
• The National Electoral Council and the Provincial Electoral Boards cannot deny the registration of lists except in the following cases: lists or candidacies that do not strictly maintain the principles and rules of parity, alternation and sequencing between women and men. (Electoral Law, article 105)
• Representatives to the National Assembly, representatives to the Andean Parliament, regional councilors, district and municipal councilors and members of rural parish councils shall be elected by voting for the candidates on the established lists by means of internal democratic processes or primary elections, which shall strictly maintain equity, parity, alternation and sequentiality between men and women or vice versa. (Electoral Law, article 160)
• The electoral authorities shall proclaim as principal electors those who have been favored with the allocation of seats; and as alternates for each principal candidate elected, those who have been registered as such. In the event of a tie for the last seat between candidates of the same sex, the winner shall be drawn by lot from among the candidates of the same sex. If among the tied candidates there is a woman, she shall have preference in the awarding of the seat, in application of the affirmative action measures and the principles of equity and parity recognized by the Constitution and the law, so that she may occupy said seat. (Electoral Law, article 165)