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These documents accompany my book Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008).
Electoral Participation in Ecuador (1830-1960)
|
Year |
Population |
Electorate |
% |
|
1830 |
800700 |
2825 |
0.4% |
|
1865 |
950569 |
30925 |
3.3% |
|
1869 |
1000000 |
14154 |
1.4% |
|
1875 |
1000000 |
45056 |
4.5% |
|
1888 |
1004651 |
30636 |
3.0% |
|
1892 |
1004791 |
62878 |
6.3% |
|
1894 |
1073329 |
35508 |
3.3% |
|
1899 |
1062506 |
17709 |
1.7% |
|
1931 |
2010029 |
62117 |
3.1% |
|
1933 |
2109787 |
64664 |
3.1% |
|
1940 |
2481166 |
82802 |
3.3% |
|
1948 |
3031394 |
288941 |
9.5% |
|
1952 |
3407807 |
361073 |
10.6% |
|
1956 |
3868258 |
631218 |
16.3% |
|
1960 |
4397649 |
764622 |
17.4% |
Source: Rafael Quintero and Erika Silva, Ecuador: una nación en ciernes, 3 volumes, Colección Estudios No. 1 (Quito: FLACSO/Abya-Yala, 1991), t. 1, 100; t 2, 148.
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