Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served two terms.
In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote.
Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off.
The runoff pits the socialist president's designated heir, Lenin Moreno, against conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso
Ecuador votes on Sunday April 02,2017 in a presidential runoff to turn the page on a decade under radical economist Rafael Correa and decide whether the country will follow Latin America's recent shift to the right
The election could also decide the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up at the country's London embassy since 2012
The election is also a barometer of the political climate in Latin America, where more than a decade of leftist dominance has been waning.
Argentina, Brazil and Peru have all shifted to the right in recent months, as the region has sunk into recession and leftist leaders have been tarnished by a string of corruption scandals.
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