Comportamiento del electorado en el Ecuador en las elecciones generales de febrero de 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know what were the sociological and subjective factors about Ecuadorian political behavior. For this purpose, some elements of political behavior theories were recovered, namely, sociological, psychosocial, emotional vote theory, etc. The information obtained, through a mixed methodological design, sheds light on the electoral political behavior of Ecuadorians, both at the national and regional levels, with their corresponding particularities. Throughout the results of this research, it is exposed that Ecuador is a country with particularities in terms of electoral motivation and that at regional level there are differences that allow us to approach a better explanation of why the results of the first round of the 2021 presidential elections were given, where, in the Coast Region we see a greater influence of the em otional factor, in the Sierra Region the influence of the candidate's reputation and emotions, intertwined by a reflective factor and, finally, in the Amazon Region of the electoral campaigns. It was found that the sociological factor with the greatest influence is the social environment, while the subjective factor with the greatest influence is emotions, followed by electoral campaigns. Therefore, the determinants of electoral political behavior in the case of February 2021 are emotions, social environment and electoral campaigns. There are variations in the regions of the country, however, those factors exposed are ultimately the ones that help to understand political behavior.