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Presidential elections were held in Ecuador on 10 and 11 January 1940.^[1] The result was a victory for Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party, who received 53% of the vote.^[2]

Results


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río	Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party	43,642	53.16
	José María Velasco Ibarra	Independent	22,061	26.87
	Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño	Conservative Party	16,376	19.95
Other candidates			21	0.03
Total			82,100	100.00

Source: Nohlen

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p379 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
^ Nohlen, p400