Ecuador's Correa won assembly vote- official count

QUITO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa's party won by a wide margin a weekend vote for a national assembly to rewrite the constitution, according to the official tally of more than half of the votes on Thursday.

Correa, a left-wing ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has claimed an overwhelming majority in the 130-member assembly he says should dissolve Congress, call early elections and curtail the unstable Andean country's political old guard.

With 54.25 percent of the votes tallied, Correa has won about 70.74 percent of the votes for the 24 national seats in the assembly. Votes for the 100 provincially assigned seats and six delegates chosen by citizens living abroad were also not complete, but showed a similar trend.

A full tally for seating in the assembly could take weeks due to the complex proportional representation system.

Correa's party has already claimed it has more than the 66-seat majority it needs to control the assembly without forming alliances with smaller parties.

Second to Correa's Alianza Pais party was the PSP party of toppled President Lucio Gutierrez, which won 8.04 percent of the votes for the nationally assigned seats, according to the count. Banana mogul Alvaro Noboa's right-wing Prian party received around 5.59 percent of those votes.