The 2011 Popular Consultation in Ecuador was a referendum held on May 7, 2011. President of the Republic of Ecuador Rafael Correa decreed that the 10 questions were approved based on an exit poll on Saturday, May 7. The final results were known on Thursday May 19, 2011: all the proposed changes were approved.
The ten proposals put to the vote of the Ecuadorian people were all accepted. These proposals included, amongst others:
|-!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" width=500 rowspan="2"|Question!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Yes!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="2"|No!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Blank!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Invalid|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Percent! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Percent! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Percent! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" |Percent|-!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="9"|Referendum|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 1| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,357,105| style="vertical-align:top;" |56.49| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,356,545| style="vertical-align:top;" |43.51| style="vertical-align:top;" |462,867| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |457,859| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 2| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,167,893| style="vertical-align:top;" |54.17| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,525,832| style="vertical-align:top;" |45.83| style="vertical-align:top;" |449,296| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |491,355| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 3| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,074,307| style="vertical-align:top;" |52.98| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,616,589| style="vertical-align:top;" |47,02| style="vertical-align:top;" |451,226| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |492,254| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 4| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,984,723| style="vertical-align:top;" |52.02| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,674,727| style="vertical-align:top;" |47.98| style="vertical-align:top;" |478,597| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |496,329| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 5| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,029,458| style="vertical-align:top;" |52.66| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,622,646| style="vertical-align:top;" |47.34| style="vertical-align:top;" |505,490| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |476,782| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-!style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan="9"|Popular consultation|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 6| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,023,533| style="vertical-align:top;" |53.43| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,507,168| style="vertical-align:top;" |46.57| style="vertical-align:top;" |672,650| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |431,025| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 7| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,951,787| style="vertical-align:top;" |52.34| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,599,093| style="vertical-align:top;" |47.66| style="vertical-align:top;" |613,088| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |470,408| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 8| style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;" colspan="8" |only cantonal results relevant|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 9| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,882,379| style="vertical-align:top;" |51.68| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,630,263| style="vertical-align:top;" |48.32| style="vertical-align:top;" |667,397| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |454,337| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-| style="text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Question 10| style="vertical-align:top;" |4,146,640| style="vertical-align:top;" |55.03| style="vertical-align:top;" |3,388,807| style="vertical-align:top;" |44.97| style="vertical-align:top;" |648,855| style="vertical-align:top;" |-| style="vertical-align:top;" |450,074| style="vertical-align:top;" |-|-|Total||8,634,376||100|-|Registered voters/turnout||11,158,419||77.38|-|colspan=11|Source: National Electoral CouncilIn reaction Correa said "The Ecuadorean people have triumphed. [This was a victory] of this dream that is called citizen's revolution." Of the controversial media ownership amendment he said the approval was "a historic deed. We are going to diffuse the power in this country."
The chief of the Organisation of American States observer team, Enrique Correa of Chile, said that there was no evidence of fraud and that the voting appeared to go smoothly.[1]