2021 Salvadoran legislative election

2021 Salvadoran legislative election
	All 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly; 43 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	50.25 ( 4.5 pp)
	Results of the election.
Mario Ponce; PCN	Ernesto Castro; NI

Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 28 February 2021 to elect the 84 members of the Legislative Assembly, 20 members of the Central American Parliament and 262 mayors.^[1] The result was a landslide victory for Nuevas Ideas with pro-Bukele parties winning a supermajority of seats.

Electoral system

The 84 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation from 14 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method.^[2]

The 20 members of the Central American Parliament are elected by open list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method.^[3]

Parties

Parliamentary parties

2018 Salvadoran legislative election
Party		Legislative Assembly		Central American Parliament		Municipalities
Party		Votes (%)	Seats	Votes (%)	Seats	Votes (%)	Seats
	Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA)	43.41	37 / 84	?	8 / 20	41.80	140 / 262
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)	26.78	23 / 84	?	8 / 20	29.18	64 / 262
	Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA)	11.45	10 / 84	?	2 / 20	12.58	26 / 262
	National Coalition Party (PCN)	10.87	9 / 84	?	1 / 20	10.50	25 / 262
	Christian Democratic Party (PDC)	3.11	3 / 84	?	1 / 20	4.13	5 / 262
	Democratic Change (CD)	0.94	1 / 84	?	0 / 20	0	0 / 262
	Independents	0.68	1 / 84	?	0 / 20	?	0 / 262
	Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity (FPS)	0.94	0 / 84	?	0 / 20	0.16	1 / 262
Sources: TSE TSE

Non-parliamentary parties

	Ideology	Leader
Vamos (V)	Centrism	Josué Alvarado
Nuevas Ideas (NI)	Populism	Xavier Zablah Bukele
Nuestro Tiempo (NT)	Humanism	John Tennant Wright Sol
Salvadoran Democracy (DS)	Humanism	Adolfo Salume Artiñano

Retiring deputies

Sixteen incumbent deputies did not run for re-election in 2021. Those incumbents were:

	Retirements	Department	Serving since
Democratic Change	Juan José Martel	San Salvador	1 May 2018
Nationalist Republican Alliance	Norman Quijano
	Milena Mayorga
	David Reyes		1 May 2008
	Patricia Valdivieso		1 May 2015
	Alejandrina Castro		1 May 2012
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Karina Sosa
Nationalist Republican Alliance	Gustavo Escalante	La Libertad
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Manuel Flores	La Libertad
	Audelia López	Chalatenango
	Rodolfo Martínez	San Miguel
	Margarita López	Santa Ana
Nationalist Republican Alliance	Josué Godoy	Santa Ana	1 May 2018
Independent	Felissa Cristales	La Libertad	1 May 2018
Grand Alliance for National Unity	Francis Zablah	La Libertad	1 May 2009
Nationalist Republican Alliance	Arturo Simeón Magaña	Ahuachapán	1 May 2018

Opinion polls

The following table lists estimates of intention to vote nationwide. Refusals are generally excluded from those of the party's vote, while the wording of the questions and the treatment of the answers "I don't know" and those that do not intend to vote may vary among the voting organizations. When available, seating projections are shown below the percentages in a smaller source.

Nationwide polling

Graphical summary

Voting intention estimates

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size					PCN					Lead
Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size										Lead

2021 legislative election	28 Feb 2021	N/A	66.46 56	12.18 14	6.91 4	5.29 5	4.08 2	1.70 1	0.56 0	1.01 1	1.70 1	54.28

CIPSECA	28 Jan–1 Feb 2021	–	68	7	2	6	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.5	61
CEC-UFG	13–17 Jan 2021	–	64.7	7.1	2.2	3.1	1.3	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.4	57.6
CID-Gallup	16 Dec 2020	–	70 60	6 10	5 2	9 6	3	1	2	0	0	61
CEOP-FUNDAUNGO	17 Nov–5 Dec 2020	2,159	60.3	4.9	2.7	4.5	0.6	0.3	–	0.3	0.5	55.4
IUDOP	10-24 Nov 2020	911	69.7 58	4.9 5	6.5 4	3.3 2	0.3 1	–	–	0.3 1	0.3 1	44.8
CIPSECA	20–25 Oct 2020	–	59	14.0	7.0	13.0	4.0	2.4	–	0.2	0.2	45.0
UFG	14 Sep 2020	–	48	4.3	3.3	6.1	1.1	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.2	41.9
TResearch	23–27 Jul 2020	1,000	70.4	5	4.4	3.1	–	–	–	1.7	0.8	65.4
CID-Gallup	16 Jan 2020	–	37	10	3	3	–	–	–	–	–	27
CEC-UFG	7–11 Jan 2020	1,292	48.2	5.9	2.6	3.6	0.3	0.4	–	0.2	0.1	42.3
IUDOP-UCA	22 Nov–3 Dec 2019	1,265	42.4	6.9	5.2	3.7	–	–	–	–	–	35.5
CID-Gallup	19 Sep 2019	1,206	35	8	6	5	1	–	–	–	–	27
UFG Datos	1–5 Sep 2019	1,500	38.7	9	3.9	4.1	0.9	0.4	–	0.2	0.4	29.7
LPG Datos	21–26 Aug 2019	1,520	32.4	9.3	5.1	3.1	0.7	0.3	0.5	–	–	23.1
CID-Gallup	29 Sep 2018	–	–	22	13	39	4	3	–	–	–	17
IUDOP-UCA	22 May 2018	1,263	38.5	30	8.9	1	–	–	–	–	–	8.5

2018 legislative election	4 Mar 2018	N/A	–	41.7	24.5	11.4	10.8	5.1	0.9	–	–	17.2

Conduct

Controversial discussion between Olivo and Bukele

The Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Julio Olivo Granadino, has declared himself an opponent of the Government of the President, Nayib Bukele.^[4] For this new magistracy in the TSE, Olivo was the first candidate of the preselection proposed by the FMLN. His appointment to said institution faced a lawsuit of unconstitutionality, presented by the constitutional lawyer Salvador Enrique Anaya.

New Ideas candidates refused registration

Through its social networks, the New Ideas political party denounced that the Electoral Board (JED) of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in Cabañas refused to register its candidates so that they could participate in the elections.^[5]

Results

Legislative Assembly



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Nuevas Ideas	1,430,578	54.67	46	New
	Nuevas Ideas–GANA	311,723	11.91	10	–
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	206,328	7.88	9	−26
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	180,808	6.91	4	−14
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	135,223	5.17	5	−5
	ARENA–DS	99,003	3.78	4	–
	National Coalition Party	85,548	3.27	1	−8
	Nuestro Tiempo	44,401	1.70	1	New
	Christian Democratic Party	44,379	1.70	1	−1
	Vamos	26,492	1.01	1	New
	PCN–DS	21,211	0.81	1	–
	Democratic Change	14,768	0.56	0	−1
	ARENA–National Coalition Party	13,503	0.52	1	–1
	Independents	2,783	0.11	0	−1
Total		2,616,748	100.00	84	0

Registered voters/turnout		5,389,017	–
Source: TSE

Municipalities



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Nuevas Ideas	1,342,968	50.78	152	New
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	502,784	19.01	35	–104
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	295,091	11.16	27	–
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	287,321	10.86	30	–34
	National Coalition Party	130,346	4.93	14	–11
	Christian Democratic Party	45,705	1.73	3	–2
	Vamos	10,413	0.39	1	New
	Democratic Change	18,301	0.69	0	–
	Nuestro Tiempo	11,974	0.45	0	New
Total		2,644,903	100.00	262	0

Registered voters/turnout		5,389,017	–
Source: TSE

Central American Parliament



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Nuevas Ideas–Democratic Change	1,693,550	68.11	14	New
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	329,039	13.23	3	–5
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	181,475	7.30	1	−7
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	164,427	6.61	1	–1
	National Coalition Party	78,492	3.16	1	0
	Christian Democratic Party	39,360	1.58	0	–1
Total		2,486,343	100.00	20	0

Registered voters/turnout		5,389,017	–
Source: TSE

References

^ "Big Victory Comes With Big Expectations for El Salvador's Young New President". World Politics Review. 11 February 2019.
^ "El Salvador Election Passport".
^ "Electoral Legislation – 2021 Elections" (PDF).
^ "TSE Magistrate, Julio Olivo declares himself a political opponent of the Government of Nayib Bukele". diariolahuella.com. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
^ "They denounce that the Departmental Electoral Board of the TSE in Cabañas does not want to register candidates from New Ideas". diariolahuella.com. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

External links

Tribunal Supremo Electoral (in Spanish)

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[1] "Big Victory Comes With Big Expectations for El Salvador's Young New President". World Politics Review. 11 February 2019.

[2] "El Salvador Election Passport".

[3] "Electoral Legislation – 2021 Elections" (PDF).

[4] "TSE Magistrate, Julio Olivo declares himself a political opponent of the Government of Nayib Bukele". diariolahuella.com. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

[5] "They denounce that the Departmental Electoral Board of the TSE in Cabañas does not want to register candidates from New Ideas". diariolahuella.com. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

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