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

		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 [es] 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 [es] 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

		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 [es]	ECP	2012	Far-left	Communism Marxism–Leninism Bolivarianism	Paúl Almeida	United Front (2014-2018)	São Paulo Forum