1968 Ecuadorian general election
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General elections were held in Ecuador on 2 June 1968.[1] The presidential election was won by José María Velasco Ibarra of the National Velasquista Federation, who received 33% of the vote.[2] He started his fifth and last term in office on 1 September.[3]
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2 June 1968
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 Map of results by provinces. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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President
| Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| José María Velasco Ibarra | Víctor Hugo Sicouret | National Velasquista Federation | 280,370 | 32.85 | |
| Andrés Córdova | Jorge Zavala | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | 264,312 | 30.97 | |
| Camilo Ponce Enríquez | Roberto Nevárez Vásquez | Social Christian Party | 259,833 | 30.44 | |
| Jorge Crespo | Eudoro Cevallos | Ecuadorian Nationalist Revolutionary Action | 31,991 | 3.75 | |
| Elías Gallegos | Gonzalo Villalba | People's Democratic Union | 17,040 | 2.00 | |
| Total | 853,546 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 853,546 | 91.88 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 75,435 | 8.12 | |||
| Total votes | 928,981 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,198,874 | 77.49 | |||
| Source: Nohlen | |||||