Ecuadorian elections (referendum, 21 April 2024)

[Mike88]

Polling was a disaster, Jesus! In the Wikipedia page, the results table shows that in the referendums, around 2,3 million ballots were either blank or invalid. That's a huge amount of ballots, more than a quarter of all ballots. Is that normal in referendums in Ecuador or is it just a protest vote in this case?

[Mike88]

Voting is currently under way.

At 10am, around 20% of voters had cast a ballot. Polls close at 5pm local time (11pm London time, 6pm NY time)

[Mike88]

30 minutes untill polls close. At 3pm, 60.7% of voters had already cast a ballot.

* Cedatos has announced it will not conduct an exit poll as originally planned, arguing of the security situation which could put the lives of its pollster team members in jeopardy.

Polls will be closed at 5:00 PM (Quito time) with the exit polls being released shortly thereafter and the first official results being published at 7:00.

Will there be exit polls by other polling companies, or did all cancelled the idea because of security issues?

[Mike88]

With each new update, so far, Noboa has been closing the gap with González. The question is if the trend will continue.

[Mike88]

With each new update, so far, Noboa has been closing the gap with González. The question is if the trend will continue.

Things have stabilized and a González vs Noboa runoff is basically certain. González is polling between 32-33% and Noboa at 24-25%.