List of political parties in Ecuador

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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
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Democratic Center Movement Movimiento Centro Democrático	CD	1	2012	Centre	Big tent Template:Nowrap	Galo Almeida	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Popular Unity Movement Movimiento Unidad Popular	UP	2	2014	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Primordialism	Geovanni Atarihuana	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Patriotic Society Party Partido Sociedad Patriótica	PSP	3	2002	Template:Nowrap	Populism Personalism	Lucio Gutiérrez	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	People, Equality and Democracy Movement Movimiento Pueblo, Igualdad y Democracia	PID	4	2022	Centre	Template:Nowrap Pluralism	Arturo Moreno	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Citizen Revolution Movement Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana	RC	5	2016	Template:Nowrap	Progressivism Template:Nowrap	Rafael Correa	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Social Christian Party Partido Social Cristiano	PSC	6	1951	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Template:Nowrap	Jaime Nebot	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	National Democratic Action Acción Democrática Nacional	ADN	7	2021	Template:Nowrap	Neoliberalism Personalism	Daniel Noboa	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Advance Party Partido Avanza	AVANZA	8	2012	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Template:Nowrap	Javier Orti	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Democratic Left Party Partido Izquierda Democrática	ID	12	1970	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Template:Nowrap	Analía Ledesma	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	AMIGO Movement Movimiento AMIGO	AMIGO	16	2020	Centre	Template:Nowrap Pluralism	Juan Carlos Yar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Ecuadorian Socialist Party Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano	PSE	17	1926	Centre-left	Social democracy Pluralism	Gustavo Vallejo	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik	MUPP	18	1995	Centre-left to Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Primordialism	Leonidas Iza	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	Template:Ill Movimiento Democracia Sí	DSÍ	20	2018	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Political opportunism	Gustavo Larrea	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	CREO Movement Movimiento CREO	CREO	21	2012	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Template:Nowrap	Guillermo Lasso	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	SUMA Party Partido SUMA	SUMA	23	2012	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Template:Nowrap	Mauricio Rodas	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	Template:Ill Movimiento Construye	MC25	25	2004	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap	María Paula Romo	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
	RETO Movement Movimiento RETO	RETO	33	2012	Template:Nowrap	Template:Nowrap Political opportunism	Aquiles Alvarez	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar

Unregistered parties

Party / Movement				Founded	Political Position	Ideology	Leader	National Affiliation	International Affiliation
style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|		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	Template:Ubl	Comrade Joselo		ICL
		Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador	PCMLE	1964	Far-left	Template:Ubl	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
	File:Partido comunista ecuatoriano.png	Template:Interlanguage link	PCE	2012	Far-left	Communism Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Paúl Almeida	United Front (2014-2018)	São Paulo Forum