In large part, the massive null vote was due to the campaign of Pérez and Pachakutik, Country Email List who promoted the "ideological null vote" as a sign of rejection of the electoral system and the alleged fraud against his Country Email List candidacy in the first round. The invalid votes came mostly from the provinces Country Email List where Pérez reached the highest number of votes5, and a post-election quantitative analysis confirms that around 60% of Pérez's votes in the first round became invalid in the second6.
To understand this result, it is necessary to return to the interpretive framework. Country Email List The reasonable expectation was to suppose that the votes that went to Pérez in the first round would be distributed, in majority, between Arauz and the null vote in the second round. Saying that is not the same as saying that no Country Email List one who had voted for Pérez was going to vote for Lasso: the conceptual model admitted that a good number of Country Email List Pérez voters would vote for Lasso. It was quite probable, for example, that the voters of Pérez de la Sierra Centro would lean more towards Lasso and the null vote than towards Arauz. That is, in fact, the inertia of those territories in the last decade. It is noteworthy that in the 2013-2017 comparison, that is, between.
Lasso's first and second participation as a presidential candidate, Country Email List where his support grew the most was precisely in those indigenous territories. In 2021, Lasso fell back Country Email List in all those provinces, but not because Correismo regained ground, but because Pérez was an electoral alternative. In the absence of Pérez on the ballot for the ballot, where would a good part of those votes go? The conceptual model Country Email List allowed them to go to Lasso. But –we underline– the general trend assumed was that the votes went to.