Quito, Ecuador ? A banana tycoon who waged an old-fashioned populist campaign and a leftist admirer of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will head to a runoff vote after neither scored an outright victory in Sunday’s tight presidential election.

The runoff between Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s wealthiest man, and Rafael Correa will be Nov. 26 .

Correa, 43, had surged ahead in recent polls by pledging a “citizens’ revolution” against the discredited political system. That has resonated with Ecuadoreans, who forced the last three elected presidents from power.

A victory by him would further push Latin America to the left, with Ecuador joining left-leaning governments in Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

Noboa, 55, says he will use his business skills to bring Ecuador’s poor into the middle class.