# 1988 Ecuadorian general election

General elections were held in Ecuador on 31 January 1988, with a second round of the presidential elections on 8 May. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left won the presidential elections, receiving 54% of the vote in the second round, whilst the Democratic Left remained the largest faction in the National Congress, winning 31 of the 72 seats.

## Results
### President

| Candidate | Candidate | Party | First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Votes | % |
| | Rodrigo Borja Cevallos | Democratic Left | 744,409 | 24.48 | 1,700,648 | 54.00 |
| | Abdalá Bucaram | Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 535,482 | 17.61 | 1,448,498 | 46.00 |
| | Sixto Durán Ballén | Social Christian Party–Conservative Party | 447,672 | 14.72 | | |
| | Frank Vargas Pazzos | APRE [es]–PSE | 384,189 | 12.63 | | |
| | Jamil Mahuad | Popular Democracy | 351,787 | 11.57 | | |
| | Ángel Duarte Valverde | Concentration of People's Forces | 239,056 | 7.86 | | |
| | Jaime Hurtado | FADI–MPD | 152,970 | 5.03 | | |
| | Carlos Julio Emanuel | Alfarista Radical Front | 102,708 | 3.38 | | |
| | Miguel Ángel Albornoz | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | 48,970 | 1.61 | | |
| | Guillermo Sotomayor | Republican Party [es] | 33,734 | 1.11 | | |
| Total | Total | Total | 3,040,977 | 100.00 | 3,149,146 | 100.00 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 3,040,977 | 83.71 | 3,149,146 | 87.17 |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 591,865 | 16.29 | 463,489 | 12.83 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 3,632,842 | 100.00 | 3,612,635 | 100.00 |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 4,679,684 | 77.63 | 4,649,684 | 77.70 |
| Source: Nohlen |||||||

### National Congress

| Party | Party | Nationwide | Nationwide | Nationwide | District | District | District | Total seats | +/– |
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Total seats | +/– |
| | Democratic Left | 601,409 | 21.76 | 3 | 635,590 | 22.70 | 28 | 31 | +7 |
| | Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 449,653 | 16.27 | 2 | 456,524 | 16.31 | 6 | 8 | +5 |
| | Social Christian Party | 310,950 | 11.25 | 1 | 347,446 | 12.41 | 7 | 8 | –1 |
| | Popular Democracy | 294,362 | 10.65 | 1 | 304,294 | 10.87 | 7 | 8 | +3 |
| | Concentration of People's Forces | 194,723 | 7.05 | 1 | 226,172 | 8.08 | 4 | 5 | –2 |
| | Conservative Party | 193,533 | 7.00 | 1 | 55,986 | 2.00 | 0 | 1 | –1 |
| | Broad Front of the Left | 189,983 | 6.88 | 1 | 66,893 | 2.39 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| | Alfarista Radical Front | 147,071 | 5.32 | 1 | 110,168 | 3.94 | 1 | 2 | –4 |
| | Socialist Party | 137,853 | 4.99 | 1 | 120,458 | 4.30 | 3 | 4 | +3 |
| | Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party | 97,405 | 3.52 | 0 | 76,380 | 2.73 | 1 | 1 | –3 |
| | Democratic Party [es] | 69,763 | 2.52 | 0 | 55,783 | 1.99 | 0 | 0 | –3 |
| | People, Change, Democracy [es] | 35,210 | 1.27 | 0 | 32,577 | 1.16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | People's Party | 22,788 | 0.82 | 0 | 11,829 | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | New |
| | Republican Party [es] | 18,671 | 0.68 | 0 | 15,354 | 0.55 | 0 | 0 | New |
| | Democratic People's Movement | | | | 163,562 | 5.84 | 2 | 2 | –1 |
| | Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action [es] | | | | 120,445 | 4.30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 2,763,374 | 100.00 | 12 | 2,799,461 | 100.00 | 60 | 72 | +2 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 2,763,374 | 76.72 | | 2,799,461 | 77.53 | | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 838,598 | 23.28 | | 811,120 | 22.47 | | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 3,601,972 | 100.00 | | 3,610,581 | 100.00 | | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 4,649,684 | 77.47 | | 4,649,684 | 77.65 | | | |
| Source: Nohlen, Córdova ||||||||||