List of political parties in Ecuador

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
		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 São Paulo Forum
		Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Partido Comunista de Ecuador - Sol Rojo	PCE-SR	1993	Far-left	Communism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Gonzalo Thought Anti-revisionism Revolutionary socialism	Comrade Joselo		ICL
		Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador	PCMLE	1964	Far-left	Communism Marxism–Leninism Stalinism Hoxhaism Anti-revisionism	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
		Ecuadorian Communist Party	ECP	2012	Far-left	Communism Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	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)

See also

• List of political parties by country
• Liberalism and radicalism in Ecuador