Elections in El Salvador gives information on elections and election results in El Salvador.
El Salvador elects its head of state – the President of El Salvador – directly through a fixed-date general election whose winner is decided by absolute majority. If an absolute majority (50% + 1) is not achieved by any candidate in the first round of a presidential election, then a run-off election is conducted 30 days later between the two candidates who obtained the most votes in the first round. The presidential period is five years, and re-election is not permitted. Salvadorans also elect a single-chamber, unicameral national legislature – the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador – composed of 84 members (deputies) elected by closed-list proportional representation for three-year terms, with the possibility of immediate re-election. Twenty of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly are elected on the basis of a single national constituency. The remaining 64 are elected in 14 multi-member constituencies (corresponding to the country's 14 departments) that range from 3-16 seats each according to department population size.
El Salvador has a multi-party system, although two political parties, ARENA and the FMLN have tended to dominate elections, with ARENA candidates having won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009.
[edit] Latest elections
e • d Summary of the 18 January 2009 Salvadoran Legislative Assembly election results
| Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
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Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) |
943,936 |
42.60% |
35 |
+3 |
|
Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) |
854,166 |
38.55% |
32 |
–2 |
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National Conciliation Party (Partido de Conciliación Nacional) |
194,751 |
8.79% |
11 |
+1 |
|
Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano) |
146,904 |
6.63% |
5 |
–1 |
|
Democratic Change (Cambio Democrático) |
46,971 |
2.12% |
1 |
–1 |
|
Revolutionary Democratic Front (Frente Democrático Revolucionario) |
21,154 |
0.95% |
0 |
— |
|
PDC–FDR |
7,707 |
0.35% |
0 |
— |
| Totals |
2,215,589 |
100.00% |
84 |
— |
| Source: Tribunal Supremo Electoral, [1] |
e • d Summary of the 15 March 2009 Salvadoran presidential election results
| Candidate – Party |
Votes |
% |
| Mauricio Funes – Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) |
1,354,000 |
51.32 |
| Rodrigo Ávila – Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) |
1,284,588 |
48.68 |
| Total |
2,638,588 |
100.00 |
| Invalid votes |
20,550 |
| Total votes (turnout 61.9%) |
2,659,138 |
| Registered voters |
4,294,849 |
| Source: TSE 1, TSE 2 |
[edit] Past elections
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