1956 Salvadoran presidential election

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 1956. The result was a victory for José María Lemus of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, who received 95.2% of the vote.

The Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidacies of José Alberto Funes (Democratic Institutional Party), Roberto Edmundo Cannessa (National Action Party) and José Alvaro Díaz (Nationalist Democratic Party). It also forbade Rafael Carranza Anaya (Authentic Constitutional Party) and Enrique Magaña Menéndez (Renovated Action Party) from withdrawing their candidacies; nevertheless, the latter two boycotted the elections.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
José María Lemus López	Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification	677,748	95.20
Rafael Carranza Anaya	Authentic Constitutional Party	22,659	3.18
Enrique Magaña Menéndez	Renovated Action Party	11,524	1.62
Invalid/blank votes			-
Total		711,931	100
Source: Nohlen

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