16 July 1978 (first round)
29 April 1979 (second round) 1984 → 68.49% 31.51% | 1,025,148 471,657 | |
General elections were held in Ecuador in 1978 and 1979. The first round of the presidential election was held on 16 July 1978, with a second round held alongside parliamentary elections on 29 April 1979. The presidential election was won by Jaime Roldós Aguilera of the Concentration of People's Forces (CPF), who received 68.5% of the vote in the run-off, becoming the country's first freely-elected president. The CPF emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 29 of the 69 seats.
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Ecuadorian general election, 1978–1979 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA