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Indians and Leftists 

This is an Electronic Appendix of documents to 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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