Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa won the country’s presidential election on Sunday based on preliminary results, an electoral official said, as his main rival demanded a recount of the vote ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery.

Ecuador’s presidential election will be decided in a runoff on April 13, after conservative incumbent President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González beat out 14 other candidates, both ...

Noboa, the American-born, Harvard-educated son of one of Ecuador’s richest businessmen, became president after a surprise victory in 2023, where he beat González in the second round.

Figures released by Ecuador’s National Electoral Council showed Noboa receiving 55.8% of the vote with more than 92% of ballots counted, while leftist lawyer Luisa González earned 44%.

With more than 97% of the votes counted, electoral officials said Noboa had 52.1%, compared to 47.9% for Luisa González, a leftist lawyer and ally of exiled former President Rafael Correa.

Daniel Noboa, a center-right businessman whose family business includes a globally known banana brand, is facing an establishment leftist, Luisa González, in Sunday’s presidential election.

Ecuador elige a Luisa González, Daniel Noboa para segunda vuelta Candidatos competirán en la segunda ronda el 15 de octubre Transcurre jornada electoral sin reporte de incidente mayor ...

Ecuador's conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González advance to presidential runoff election Associated Press Mon, February 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM UTC ...

QUITO (Reuters) -An April presidential run-off in Ecuador will pit incumbent Daniel Noboa against leftist Luisa Gonzalez, in an unexpectedly tight contest featuring the same two candidates who ...

Leftist Luisa González took the lead in the first round and will face Daniel Noboa in a runoff election in October as neither candidate won over 50% of the vote in the first round.