With 9% of the votes counted, Noboa has obtained 47.21% of the valid votes, compared to 40.88% for the presidential candidate of Correísmo, Luisa González.

The first results of the official count of the presidential elections held this Sunday in Ecuador make it unlikely that the current president, Daniel Noboa, will be re-elected in the first round, despite the difference achieved with respect to the Correísno candidate, Luisa González.

With 9% of the votes counted, Noboa has obtained 47.21% of the valid votes, compared to 40.88% for the presidential candidate of Correísmo, Luisa González (Citizen Revolution), whom the current president already defeated in the second round of the extraordinary elections of 2023.

An exit poll released after the polls closed gave 50.12% of valid votes for Noboa and 42.21% for González, with a sample of more than 28,000 cases nationwide, and a margin of error of 2.98%.

To win in the first round, you need to obtain half plus one of the valid votes, or achieve at least 40% and an advantage of at least ten percentage points over the second candidate.

If not, there will be a second round between the two candidates with the most votes next Sunday, April 13, who will presumably be Daniel Noboa and Luisa González, the same ones who faced each other in the second round of 2023, in elections brought forward by the resignation of the then president, Guillermo Lasso.

In third place in the vote count is the candidate of the indigenous movement Leonidas Iza (Pachakutik), with 5.26%, followed by environmental activist Andrea González Náder (Sociedad Patriótica), with 2.92%. The remaining twelve presidential candidates do not even reach 1%.

More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians were called to the polls this Sunday to elect their national authorities for the period 2025-2029, including those who will hold the Presidency and Vice Presidency, the 151 members of the National Assembly (Parliament) and five representatives for the Andean Parliament.