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Did you know... that several 19th-century presidential elections in El Salvador had candidates that ran virtually unopposed?

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Voting	176	6,079	0	654
Voting systems	970	4,941	108	552
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Municipal elections	747	747	98	98
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This article is missing the 2009 election, but I don't know how to include this. The comment at the end about ARENA wining the last four Presidential elections should be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.231.113 (talk) 19:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lacks Information on the Method of Voting

Something should be said about El Salvador's domestic and overseas voting systems DrWJK (talk) 19:22, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 08:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Nominator: PizzaKing13 (talk · contribs) 13:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: TheNuggeteer (talk · contribs) 01:39, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will review this sometime this week. Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 05:35, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

I suggest adding more about the development of these elections.
- What do you mean?
  - Add some of the history about the development of the elections in the lead.

Voting

I suggest adding a separate section for the system.
- Not done yet.
Ref 2 does not state about "Until 2024".
- Ref 2 is from 2005 and the constitutional reforms happened 2 weeks ago, so naturally, it will not mention this.
  - Y
"14 multi-member constituencies" I don't see it in the source page.
- Added source 6
  - Y
What are trustees and aiderman? Add a note or link explaining this.
- Linked
  - Y
By "thee-year", do you mean "three-year"?
- fixed
  - Y
What do you mean by "re-elected indefinitely"? They can be elected again and again?
- Specified there's no term limit
  - Y
Please add the year 2024 to the "El Salvador elected 20 deputies..." sentence.
- Why? These elections happened for decades.
  - I specified that elections were held from 1991 to 2024. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 07:03, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    - Y

History

"German political scientist Michael Krennerich" add "according to" before the sentence.
- Added, idk why it wasn/t there
  - Y
Was the German politicial scientist one of the authors of the book? I can't find a mention of him.
- He authored the El Salvador chapter
  - Y
In the second paragraph, there is another "later that year" which is repetitive.
- removed the second one
  - Y
"1931 and 1979" add comma after.
- Added
  - Y

Election schedule

Please add sources to this. It doesn't seem to be mentioned (by whole) in the article.
- I don't think this is necessary since all the elections that happened + the elections in 2027 are linked and have several sources verifying they happened. Plus, it is impossible to source the 2030 and 2033 elections because of how far out they are. The article already says that legislative and municipal elections are every three years and that presidential terms starting in 2027 are 6 years. Otherwise, I'll just axe the section.
  - I think it is okay already. Y

Notes

Is there an archived version of the "Ching" authored book? I currently can't access this.
- I got it through ProQuest. I dont know of any other free source.
I'm inexperienced with this reference system, so I might misunderstand some things.

This article is pretty nice overall, but there are still some problems. Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 05:35, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@PizzaKing13: pinging. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 05:45, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TheNuggeteer: responses and edits made. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 06:29, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great job! Here are the things undone:

Add development and history of the elections on lead.
A separate section for the system.

This is all the missing stuff. Thank you for your efforts! Thanks, 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 08:27, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TheNuggeteer: Done. Thanks for the review! PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 08:47, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Passing. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 08:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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The result was: promoted by Earth605 talk 04:58, 19 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that several 19th-century presidential elections in El Salvador had candidates that ran virtually unopposed?

Source: Ching, Erik K. (1997). From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and Authoritarianism in El Salvador, 1840–1940. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara. pp. 180–181. OCLC 39326756. ProQuest 304330235. Retrieved 26 April 2025.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carlos Fernández Bácula

Improved to Good Article status by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 09:29, 10 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Article is now rated a good article. No issues. Ready for DYK.Yinglong999 (talk) 07:48, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]