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Christian Social Party Partido Social Cristiano
Abbreviation	PSC
Leader	Jaime Nebot
President	Alfredo Serrano Valladares
Founders	Camilo Ponce Enríquez Sixto Durán Ballén
Founded	13 November 1951; 74 years ago (1951-11-13)
Headquarters	Quito, Ecuador
Youth wing	La Cantera de la 6
Membership(2022)	161,669[1]
Ideology	Christian humanism Christian democracy Social conservatism
Political position	Centre-right[2]
Regional affiliation	Union of Latin American Parties[3]
Colors	Gold   Red
Seats in the National Assembly	4 / 151
Provincial Prefects	2 / 23
Mayors	73 / 221
Website
http://la6.org/
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TheChristian Social Party (Spanish:Partido Social Cristiano,PSC) is acentre-rightpolitical party inEcuador.^[2][4]

The party was founded in 1951 under the name of Christian Social Movement (Movimiento Social Cristiano) byCamilo Ponce Enríquez, who was Ecuador's president from 1956 to 1960, andSixto Durán Ballén. It was initially focused onQuito. Since the 1980s, however, the party's popularity is more present on the coastal areas, particularly around Ecuador's economic center and most populous city,Guayaquil, and in coastal provinces, such asGuayas,El Oro,Los Rios, andManabi, which constitute about half of the country's population. However, as a sign of deep regional divide on politics, the party has little power in theAndean region. Thus, while holding all major positions in Guayas and Guayaquil, the PSC has not held the presidential office since the presidency ofLeón Febres Cordero (1984–88).

In 1978, the party's centrist and leftist wing split-off to form the centrePopular Democracy party underOsvaldo Hurtado, who was the country's president from 1981 to 1984. After Febres Cordero's faction inside the PSC succeeded in appointingJaime Nebot as the party's presidential candidate,Sixto Durán Ballén and his supporters left the party to form the more right-wingRepublican Union.^[5] Eventually, Durán was elected president for the period 1992–1996. Nebot was the party's presidential candidate again in 1996. He won first place in the first round with 28% of the vote, but lost in the runoff with 46% of the vote toAbdalá Bucaram.

The PSC candidate,Xavier Neira, won 12.2 percent of the vote in the2002 presidential election. Its candidate in the2006 presidential election wasCynthia Viteri. She garnered 9.91 percent of the overall votes cast and failed to enter into the second round of runoff voting. Neira and Viteri both came in 5th place. At the 2006 legislative elections, the party won 13 of the 100 seats, much less than last period.

After León Febres Cordero's death, Jaime Nebot took over the leadership of the party, and split it into a coalition with his provincial brother party called "Madera de Guerrero", an allusion to a song of the folklore ofGuayaquil with the same name. This coalition is the third force in the National Assembly (parliament). For the2021 general elections, the party teamed up withCreating Opportunities withGuillermo Lasso and Lasso was ultimately elected in the run-off againstAndrés Arauz.

For the2023 Ecuadorian general election, the PSC supported the candidacy ofJan Topić.^[6] For the second round, the party announced they will support the candidacy ofDaniel Noboa, because the party "has never supported Correism".^[7] The party obtained less than 1% of the vote in the2025 presidential elections.^[8] This failure is due to the electoral competition ofDaniel Noboa and corruption cases.^[8]

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1979	Sixto Durán-Ballén	123,411	8.58	3 / 69	New
1984		361,755	17.85	9 / 70	6
1988	León Febres Cordero	310,950	11.25	8 / 72	1
1992		753,452	23.39	21 / 77	13
1996		1,069,977	30.40	27 / 82	6
1998		839,567	23.80	28 / 121	1
2002		823,442	21.49	24 / 100	4
2006		477,804	15.29	13 / 100	11
2009	Jaime Nebot	8,559,831	13.28	11 / 124	2
2013		7,901,315	8.99	6 / 137	5
2017		1,295,768	15.90	15 / 137	9
2021		780,541	9.73	18 / 137	3
2023		996,206	11.90	14 / 137	4
2025		288,545	3.17	4 / 151	10

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