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	Provincial Prefects	Mayors
		Democratic Center Movement Movimiento Centro Democrático	CD	1	2012	Centre	Big tent Social liberalism	Guillermo Rodríguez	0 / 23	17 / 221
		Popular Unity Movement Movimiento Unidad Popular	UP	2	2014	Left-wing	Revolutionary socialism Primordialism	Geovanni Atarihuana	1 / 23	13 / 221
		Patriotic Society Party Partido Sociedad Patriótica	PSP	3	2002	Right-wing	Populism Personalism	Lucio Gutiérrez	0 / 23	18 / 221
	File:Pid ecuador.png	People, Equality and Democracy Movement Movimiento Pueblo, Igualdad y Democracia	PID	4	2022	Centre	Big tent Pluralism	Arturo Moreno	0 / 23	6 / 221
	File:Movimiento revolucion ciudadana.png	Citizen Revolution Movement Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana	RC	5	2016	Left-wing	Progressivism Post-neoliberalism	Marcela Aguiñaga	9 / 23	50 / 221
		Social Christian Party Partido Social Cristiano	PSC	6	1951	Right-wing	Neoliberalism Christian democracy	Alfredo Serrano	2 / 23	28 / 221
		Advance Party Partido Avanza	AVANZA	8	2012	Right-wing	Neoliberalism Big tent	Javier Orti	0 / 23	18 / 221
		Democratic Left Party Partido Izquierda Democrática	ID	12	1970	Centre-left	Social liberalism Social democracy	Analía Ledesma	1 / 23	10 / 221
		AMIGO Movement Movimiento AMIGO	AMIGO	16	2020	Centre	Big tent Pluralism	Víctor Bravo	0 / 23	10 / 221
	File:PSE nuevo logo.png	Ecuadorian Socialist Party Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano	PSE	17	1926	Centre-left	Social democracy Pluralism	Gustavo Vallejo	1 / 23	17 / 221
		Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik	MUPP	18	1995	Centre-left to left-wing	Indigenism Primordialism	Marlon Santi	6 / 23	26 / 221
		Democracy Yes Movement Movimiento Democracia Sí	DSÍ	20	2018	Centre-right	Big tent Pluralism	Gustavo Larrea	0 / 23	7 / 221
		CREO Movement Movimiento CREO	CREO	21	2012	Right-wing	Neoliberalism Right-wing populism	Esteban Bernal	0 / 23	25 / 221
		SUMA Party Partido SUMA	SUMA	23	2012	Right-wing	Neoliberalism Liberal democracy	Guillermo Celi	1 / 23	25 / 221
		Build Movement Movimiento Construye	MC25	25	2012	Right-wing	Neoliberalism	Iván González	0 / 23	11 / 221
		RETO Movement Movimiento RETO	RETO	33	2012	Centre-right	Personalism Liberal democracy	Eduardo Sánchez	1 / 23	22 / 221
	File:MOVER 35.svg	MOVER Movement Movimiento Verde Ético Revolucionario y Democrático	MOVER	35	2006	Centre-left	Big tent Pluralism	Fátima Campos	0 / 23	4 / 221

Unregistered Parties

• Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE)
• Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun (PCE-SR)
• Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE)
• Workers' Party of Ecuador

Defunct Parties

• Alfarist Radical Front (FRA)
• A New Option (UNO)
• Democratic People's Movement (MPD)
• Democratic Transformation
• 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
• National Liberation
• Solidarity Fatherland Movement
• Ethics and Democracy Network (RED)
• Velasquist National Federation (FNV)
• Force Ecuador
• Coalition Movement (MC)

See also

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