Evaluación del proceso de delimitación de circunscripciones electorales en la provincia de Pichincha, para el proceso de elecciones generales 2013

Abstract

A constituency is a territorial unit in which the votes submitted by voters constitute the basis of the allocation of seats for Political Organizations. Furthermore is the basis of any electoral system. A constituency delimitation, such as the shape thereof may influence the number of seats to be distributed and so does the allocation of seats among the candidates, positively or negatively favoring certain political organization, hence the importance on defining constituencies as neutral as possible. As management mechanism process, a SWOT analysis matrix was applied in order to determine the most accurate strategies when it comes to process improvement; also a qualitative evaluation to the critical factors of incidence such as: compactness, population equality territorial division, complete sectors, continuity, contiguity and common interests; in which was determined its level of compliance but still the same subjective position; whose score on a scale from 1 to 10 was 6. As a result of part of the strategy analysis staff turnover must be avoided, especially the ones who have the knowledge of electoral issues and also about creation of constituencies, as this will improve National Electoral Council’s credibility. Additionally, surveys were used towards electoral experts in order determine improvement opportunities for the constituency delimitation process. Within the achieved overcomes, the most relevant were: 50% considered that the model executed wasn’t properly socialized, 80% considered that technical parameters were properly applied, among others.