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    "date": "2029-04-30",
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          "by": "2029-05-24T04:59:59Z",
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          "basis": "The CNE proclaims the definitive result and adjudicates the office once no appeal is pending (Código arts. 137, 141); there is no subjective electoral appeal against the adjudication of a single-office or ticket election (art. 137). 2025 precedent: the CNE plenary proclaimed the definitive runoff result on Sat 10 May 2025, day 27, after the Tribunal Contencioso Electoral certified that no appeals were pending (expreso.ec, 10 May 2025). ESTIMATE, erring late: from day 7 after the window's first day to the end of 23 May 2029 (local), the day before the President is sworn in on 24 May (Código art. 91). The Tribunal Contencioso Electoral rules only on appeals, so there is no separate court stage."
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            "by": "2029-05-02T04:59:59Z",
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            "citation": "EXPECTED, not a day. Const. art. 143: if no ticket wins an absolute majority of valid votes, 'se realizará una segunda vuelta electoral dentro de los siguientes cuarenta y cinco días'; Código art. 89 repeats the rule. In practice the 45 days have run from the proclamation of the first-round result: 2025 - proclaimed 12 Mar, runoff Sun 13 Apr 2025 (primicias.ec, 12 Mar 2025); 2021 - first round 7 Feb, results proclaimed 21 Feb, runoff Sun 11 Apr 2021 (baenegocios.com, 21 Feb 2021; expreso.ec, 18 Apr 2021). Both runoffs came 63 days after the first round. The first round itself is expected in Feb 2029 (see ecuador-general-2029), and the President is sworn in on 24 May (Código art. 91). Window 15 Mar-30 Apr 2029: ESTIMATE, from six weeks after the first round's earliest expected day (a quick proclamation allows an earlier runoff) to the end of April, the month of both precedents and late enough that the 2025 pace from runoff to proclamation (27 days) still ends before 24 May. Polling 07:00-17:00 in the national territory (Código arts. 115, 118): 17:00 on the mainland (UTC-5, no summer time) is 22:00 UTC; Galápagos (UTC-6) closes at 23:00 UTC; abroad polls close at 19:00 local. The CNE publishes provisional results from the first data (Código art. 127). ESTIMATE: from the mainland close on the window's first day to the end of the day after its last day, local. Provisional, not the official result.",
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            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "Provincial and abroad scrutinies within ten days (Código art. 132); the CNE's national scrutiny hearing opens between day 3 and day 7 (art. 141) and approves the numerical results, which then open to appeal (art. 137). Precedents: 2025 - the CNE closed the national hearing for the 13 Apr runoff on Thu 24 Apr 2025, day 11 (vistazo.com, 24 Apr 2025); 2021 - the CNE approved the final report and proclaimed the numerical results of the 11 Apr runoff on 18 Apr 2021, day 7, after which appeals to the Tribunal Contencioso Electoral could be filed (expreso.ec, 18 Apr 2021). ESTIMATE: from day 3 after the window's first day to 14 days after its last day, local. Still open to appeal, not the final result.",
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            "citation": "The CNE proclaims the definitive result and adjudicates the office once no appeal is pending (Código arts. 137, 141); there is no subjective electoral appeal against the adjudication of a single-office or ticket election (art. 137). 2025 precedent: the CNE plenary proclaimed the definitive runoff result on Sat 10 May 2025, day 27, after the Tribunal Contencioso Electoral certified that no appeals were pending (expreso.ec, 10 May 2025). ESTIMATE, erring late: from day 7 after the window's first day to the end of 23 May 2029 (local), the day before the President is sworn in on 24 May (Código art. 91). The Tribunal Contencioso Electoral rules only on appeals, so there is no separate court stage.",
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            "note": "CNE 'Resultados Electorales' section, linked from the main menu of www.cne.gob.ec (read 3 Oct 2026 through a text proxy; the section itself returned HTTP 403 to every fetcher tried, so its contents were not read). An index of past results, not a page for this election: no 2029 results page exists yet. The CNE's live count on election night is provisional (Código art. 127: 'resultados electorales provisionales'); the official result is the CNE's proclamation after any appeals are settled (arts. 137, 141).",
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            "note": "Código de la Democracia (Ley Orgánica Electoral y de Organizaciones Políticas), LEXIS consolidated text hosted on the CNE's voto-en-el-exterior site, last reform 24 Jul 2025 (RO-S 88). Art. 85 (convocation at least 120 days before polling day, with the electoral calendar); art. 89 ('Las elecciones se realizarán cada cuatro años para elegir en el mismo día' President and Vice-President, the National Assembly and the Andean Parliament representatives; runoff rule); art. 91 (President sworn in on 24 May; Assembly installs ten days earlier); arts. 115 and 118 (polling 07:00-17:00 in the national territory, 09:00-19:00 abroad); art. 127 (provisional results published from the first data); art. 132 (provincial scrutiny within 10 days, extendable); art. 137 (proclamation once appeals are settled); art. 141 (national scrutiny hearing between day 3 and day 7; CNE proclaims the definitive results).",
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            "note": "Constitución de la República del Ecuador (RO 449 of 20 Oct 2008), Asamblea Nacional pocket edition including the 2011 referendum amendments: art. 118 (Assembly, four-year term; 15 national members, two per province plus one per 200,000 inhabitants or fraction over 150,000 by the last census, plus members abroad as the law determines); art. 143 (absolute majority; runoff 'dentro de los siguientes cuarenta y cinco días'; no runoff with 40% and a lead of more than ten points); arts. 130 and 148 (removal of the President or dissolution of the Assembly, once, in the first three years, bringing early elections for both for the rest of the terms). Later amendments were not checked against this edition.",
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            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "The previous election. On 2 Oct 2026 en.wikipedia's '2029 Ecuadorian general election' was only a redirect to 'Elections in Ecuador'.",
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            "url": "https://www.cne.gob.ec/",
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