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2021 Salvadoran legislative election
	All 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly; 43 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	50.25 ( 4.5 pp)
Reporting	100%as of 12:57, 12 March 2021 GMT–6
	Results of the election.
Mario Ponce; PCN	TBD; NI

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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 28 February 2021 to elect the 84 members of the Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors.^[1]

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]

Parties

Parliamentary parties

Name			Ideology	Leader	2018 result
Name			Ideology	Leader	Votes (%)	Seats
	ARENA	Nationalist Republican	National conservatism	Erick Salguero	41.72%	37 / 84
	FMLN	Farabundo Martí	Socialism	Óscar Ortiz	24.54%	23 / 84
	GANA	Grand Alliance	Conservatism	Andrés Rovira	11.45%	10 / 84
	PCN	National Coalition	Nationalism	Manuel Rodriguez	10.87%	9 / 84
	PDC	Christian Democratic	Christian democracy	Rodolfo Parker	5.11%	3 / 84
	CD	Democratic Change	Social democracy	Douglas Avilés	0.94%	1 / 84

Non-parliamentary parties

		Ideology	Leader
V	Let's go	Centrism	Josué Alvarado
N	New Ideas	Populism	Xavier Zablah Bukele
NT	Our Time	Humanism	John Tennant Wright Sol
DS	Salvadoran Democracy	Humanism	Adolfo Salume Artiñano

Retiring MAs

Fourteen incumbents did not run for re-election in 2021. Those incumbents are:

Party		Retirements	Department	Term
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Democratic Change (El Salvador)/meta/color"\|	Democratic Change	Juan José Martel	San Salvador	May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Norman Quijano
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|		Milena Mayorga
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|		David Reyes		May 1, 2009 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|		Patricia Valdivieso		May 1, 2015 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|		Alejandrina Castro		May 1, 2012 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color"\|	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Karina Sosa
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Gustavo Escalante	La Libertad
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color"\|	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Manuel Flores	La Libertad
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color"\|		Audelia López	Chalatenango
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color"\|		Rodolfo Martínez	San Miguel
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color"\|		Margarita López	Santa Ana
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Josué Godoy	Santa Ana	May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2021
	Independent	Felissa Cristales	La Libertad	May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color"\|	Grand Alliance for National Unity	Francis Zablah	La Libertad	May 1, 2009 – April 30, 2021
width="1" bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Arturo Simeón Magaña	Ahuachapán	May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2021

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	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color;"\|	style="background:Template:National Coalition Party (El Salvador)/meta/color ;"\|					Lead
CIPSECA	28 Jan–1 Feb 2021	–	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|68	7	2	6	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.5	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|61
CEC-UFG	13–17 Jan 2021	–	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|64.7	7.1	2.2	3.1	1.3	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.4	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|57.6
CID-Gallup	16 Dec 2020	–	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|70 60	6 10	5 2	9 6	3	1	2	0	0	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|61
CEOP-FUNDAUNGO	17 Nov–5 Dec 2020	2,159	style="background:Template:Nuevas Ideas/meta/color"\|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
2019 presidential election	3 Feb 2019	2,733,178	–	31.7	14.4	style="background:Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color"\| 53.1	–	–	–	0.7	–	style="background:Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color"\|21.4
CID-Gallup	29 Sep 2018	–	–	22	13	style="background:Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color"\| 39	4	3	–	–	–	style="background:Template:Grand Alliance for National Unity/meta/color"\|17
IUDOP-UCA	22 May 2018	1,263	38.5	30	8.9	1	–	–	–	–	–	8.5

2018 legislative election	4 Mar 2018	2,318,754	–	style="background:Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|41.7	24.5	11.4	10.8	5.1	0.9	–	–	style="background:Template:Nationalist Republican Alliance/meta/color"\|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.^[3] 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.^[4]

Results

Legislative Assembly



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Nuevas Ideas	1,451,284	57.77	56	New
	N–GANA	224,188	8.92	5	New
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	200,334	7.97	14	−21
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	175,076	6.97	4	−14
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	134,436	5.35	2	−8
	ARENA–PCN–DS	95,346	3.80	–	–
	National Coalition Party	83,938	3.34	0	−9
	Christian Democratic Party	43,305	1.72	1	−1
	Our Time	42,200	1.68	1	New
	Let's Go	25,111	1.00	1	New
	PCN–DS	20,244	0.81	–	–
	Democratic Change	14,225	0.57	0	−1
	Independents	2,694	0.11	0	−1
Total		2,512,381	100.00	84	0

Registered voters/turnout		5,389,017	–
Source: TSE (96.43% counted)

References

^ Big Victory Comes With Big Expectations for El Salvador’s Young New President World Politics Review, 11 February 2019
^ El Salvador Election Passport
^ "TSE Magistrate, Julio Olivo declares himself a political opponent of the Government of Nayib Bukele". diariolahuella.com. 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. 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] "TSE Magistrate, Julio Olivo declares himself a political opponent of the Government of Nayib Bukele". diariolahuella.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

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

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