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2024 Salvadoran legislative election
El Salvador
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All 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly
31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
52.02% (Increase 1.77pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
NI Xavier Zablah Bukele 70.56 54 −2
ARENA Carlos García Saade 7.29 2 −12
PCN Manuel Rodríguez 3.26 2 0
PDC Reinaldo Carballo 2.99 1 0
Vamos Cesia Rivas 2.94 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by department
President of the Legislative Assembly before President of the Legislative Assembly after
Ernesto Castro
NI		 Ernesto Castro
NI

Legislative elections were held in El Salvador in February and March 2024. In the first round on 4 February, voters elected all 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly. In the second round on 3 March, voters elected mayors and municipal councils[a] for all 44 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).[b]

The Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) allowed 13 political parties to participate in the election. Of those, ten parties participated in the Legislative Assembly election, eleven in the municipal elections, and nine in the PARLACEN election. Opinion polling indicated significant leads for Nuevas Ideas, the political party of President Nayib Bukele (who was seeking re-election in the concurrent presidential election), in the legislative and municipal elections. In December 2022, Bukele suggested reducing the number of municipalities and, in June 2023, the Legislative Assembly approved his proposals to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. The reductions were criticized by lawyers, economists, and opposition politicians as gerrymandering, undemocratic, and an attempt to consolidate the government's power.

Nuevas Ideas won 54 seats. Its allies—the Christian Democratic Party and the National Coalition Party—won an additional 3 seats, while the opposition, consisting of the Nationalist Republican Alliance and Vamos won the last 3 seats. Nuevas Ideas won 28 municipalities, its allies won an additional 15 municipalities, and the opposition won 1 municipality. The elected deputies, mayors, and municipal councils assumed office on 1 May.

Background

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Reduction of municipalities and legislative seats

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A map showing the borders of El Salvador's 262 municipalities before being reduced to 44
A map showing the borders of El Salvador's 44 municipalities after being reduced from 262
Maps of the country's municipalities before (top) and after (bottom) the reductions

On 30 December 2022, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele tweeted that he believed the country's 262 municipalities should be reduced to only 50, claiming that it was "absurd that 21,000 km2 are divided into 262 municipalities" ("absurdo que 21,000 kms2 estén divididos en 262 alcaldías").[c][3] Various economists, lawyers, and politicians argued that the proposed reduction was an attempt to consolidate power through gerrymandering,[4] would grant Nuevas Ideas an electoral advantage,[5] and would lead to data manipulation to favor the government.[6]

In February 2023, Ernesto Castro, the president of the Legislative Assembly, confirmed that Nuevas Ideas was considering reducing the number of deputies in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 64 and the number of municipalities from 252 to 50.[7] Claudia Ortiz, a deputy from Vamos, criticized the announcement and remarked that the proposed reforms could help Nuevas Ideas form a one-party state. She also argued that the time to make electoral reforms had passed and that the changes would violate Article 291-A of the electoral code that prohibits electoral reforms up to one year before an election.[7][8] On 15 March, the Legislative Assembly voted to repeal Article 291-A.[9]

On 1 June 2023, Bukele formally proposed legislation to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60.[10] Regarding the municipal reduction, he stated that the present municipalities would be transformed into districts.[11][12] Regarding the legislative reduction, he stated that the number of seats would return to the number that were present before the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords that ended the Salvadoran Civil War.[13] The Legislative Assembly approved the legislative reduction on 7 June[14][15] and the municipal reduction on 13 June.[16] Both reductions would go into effect on 1 May 2024.[17] ARENA stated that the reductions were a "tactic to swing the electoral field in [Nuevas Ideas'] favor" ("táctica para inclinar la cancha electoral a su favor").[18] Óscar Ortiz, the secretary-general of the FMLN, described the proposals as "institutional fraud" for occurring during the lead up to the 2024 election.[19]

Results of the reductions by department
Department Legislative Assembly[20] Municipalities[17]
2021 2024 +/– 2021 2024 +/–
Ahuachapán 4 3 –1 12 3 –9
Cabañas 3 2 –1 9 2 –7
Chalatenango 3 2 –1 33 3 –30
Cuscatlán 3 2 –1 16 2 –14
La Libertad 10 7 –3 22 6 –16
La Paz 4 3 –1 22 3 –19
La Unión 3 2 –1 18 2 –16
Morazán 3 2 –1 26 2 –24
San Miguel 6 5 –1 20 3 –17
San Salvador 24 16 –8 19 5 –14
San Vicente 3 2 –1 13 2 –11
Santa Ana 7 5 –2 13 4 –9
Sonsonate 6 5 –1 16 4 –12
Usulután 5 4 –1 23 3 –20
Total 84 60 –24 262 44 –218

Electoral system

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Election procedure

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A website banner displaying the TSE's logo and the text "2024 Elections" in Spanish
The TSE's 2024 election website banner

Legislative and municipal elections were scheduled to be held in El Salvador three years after the 2021 legislative election.[21][22] All 60 Legislative Assembly deputies, 44 mayors and municipal councils of the country's municipalities (second-level subdivisions), and 20 Central American Parliament deputies were elected through a popular vote. El Salvador's constitution mandated that the election would be "free, direct, equal and secret".[23] The Legislative Assembly election was held on 4 February 2024, concurrent with the presidential election. The elections for the 44 municipalities and the Central American Parliament were held on 3 March 2024.[24]

Voting was held from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST.[25] A total of 1,595 voting centers were available across the country.[26] Voting was not compulsory.[27] Electronic voting for Salvadoran expatriates began at midnight on 6 January 2024.[28][d] Expatriates were able to vote at 81 voting centers in 60 of the country's embassies and consulates in 30 countries.[31][32] For the legislative election, votes cast from outside of the country were counted towards selecting deputies in the department of San Salvador.[33] Guillermo Wellman, a magistrate of the TSE, stated that individuals arrested during the country's gang crackdown were ineligible to vote.[34] There were a total of 6,214,399 registered voters.[35]

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly were elected by the D'Hondt method, which was changed in June 2023 from the hare quota largest remainders method used in previous elections.[36] Mayors, municipal council members, and Central American Parliament deputies were elected by open list proportional representation. The 60 deputies of the Legislative Assembly were elected in 14 constituencies for the country's 14 departments (first-level subdivisions), the 44 mayors and municipal councils were elected for each constituency, and the 20 Central American Parliament deputies were elected from one nationwide constituency.[23][37]

Legislative candidates had to be at least 25 years old while municipal candidates had to be at least 21 years old. All candidates had to have been Salvadoran citizens by birth.[38] Per article 38 of the Law of Political Parties, at least 30 percent of a party's total candidates for the legislative, municipal, and PARLACEN elections must be women.[39] In addition to the 60 deputies elected to the Legislative Assembly and the 20 deputies elected to PARLACEN (referred to as proprietary deputies), an additional 60 substitute deputies were elected to the Legislative Assembly and 20 substitute deputies were elected to PARLACEN. Voters in each of the 44 municipalities elected 1 mayor and a varying number of members to the municipal council. Each municipal council consisted of 1 trustee, 4 proprietary aldermen, and 4 substitute alderman, however, two municipalities elected 8 proprietary alderman and two more elected 10 proprietary alderman due to those municipalities' larger size. In total, 624 people were elected to hold public office in the 2024 elections, a decrease from 3,206 in 2021.[1][40]

Political parties

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Political parties must be registered with the TSE to be able to participate in elections. The following table shows the thirteen political parties that were eligible to participate in the 2024 election.

Party[41] Leader[41] 2021 results
Legislative[42] Municipal[43] PARLACEN[44]
PDC Christian Democratic Party
Partido Demócrata Cristiano 		Reinaldo Carballo
1 / 84
3 / 262
0 / 20
CD Democratic Change
Cambio Democrático 		Javier Milián
0 / 84
0 / 262
0 / 20
FMLN Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional 		Óscar Ortiz
4 / 84
30 / 262
1 / 20
GANA Grand Alliance for National Unity
Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional 		Nelson Guardado
5 / 84
27 / 262
1 / 20
V Let's Go
Vamos 		Cesia Rivas
1 / 84
1 / 262
 Did not run
PCN National Coalition Party
Partido de Concertación Nacional 		Manuel Rodríguez
2 / 84
14 / 262
1 / 20
ARENA Nationalist Republican Alliance
Alianza Republicana Nacionalista 		Carlos García Saade
14 / 84
35 / 262
3 / 20
NI New Ideas
Nuevas Ideas 		Xavier Zablah Bukele
56 / 84
152 / 262
14 / 20
NT Our Time
Nuestro Tiempo 		Andy Failer
1 / 84
0 / 262
 Did not run
DS Salvadoran Democracy
Democracia Salvadoreña 		Adolfo Salume Artiñano
0 / 84
 Did not run
PAIS Salvadoran Independent Party
Partido Independiente Salvadoreño 		Roy García New party
FPS Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity
Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña 		Óscar Morales Lemus Did not run
FS Solidary Force
Fuerza Solidaria 		Rigoberto Soto New party

Legislative candidates

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Nuevas Ideas held a majority in the 13th Legislative Assembly; GANA, the PDC, and the PCN supported Nuevas Ideas' government. The opposition consisted of ARENA, the FMLN, Nuestro Tiempo, and Vamos.[45] Within the Central American Parliament, the fifteen deputies from Nuevas Ideas and GANA belong to the Center-Democratic Integration Group, the four deputies from ARENA and the PCN belong to the Integrationist Democratic Unity, and the sole FMLN deputy belongs to the Parliamentary Group of the Left.[46]

In the years following the 2021 legislative election, three deputies and twenty-two mayors from ARENA left the party and become independents, as had eleven mayors from the FMLN, and one deputy and two mayors from GANA.[47]

Retiring deputies

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Eighteen deputies elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2021 did not run for re-election in 2024 because they chose to run for another office, were eliminated during their party's primary elections, were suspended by their party prior to the election, or they chose not to seek public office in 2024.

Party Retiring deputy Department Serving since Ref.
Nationalist Republican Alliance Alberto Armando Romero Rodríguez Cuscatlán 1 May 2006 [48]
Rodrigo Ávila Avilés La Libertad 1 May 2015 [49]
Ana María Margarita Escobar López San Salvador 1 May 2009 [48]
René Alfredo Portillo Cuadra 1 May 2015 [50]
José Javier Palomo Nieto Santa Ana [48]
Nuevas Ideas Rodil Amílcar Ayala Nerio Cabañas 1 May 2021 [51]
José Ilofio García Torres [52]
Erick Alfredo García Salguero La Libertad [53]
Rebeca Aracely Santos de González
Marcela Balbina Pineda Erazo La Paz [52]
Edwin Antonio Serpas Ibarra La Unión
Carlos Hermann Bruch Cornejo San Salvador
Iris Ivonne Hernández González
Aronnette Rebeca Mencía Díaz
José Asunción Urbina Alvarenga
Gerardo Balmore Aguilar Soriano San Vicente
Jorge Alberto Castro Valle Santa Ana
Nuestro Tiempo John Tennant Wright Sol San Salvador [54]

Election campaign

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Nuevas Ideas

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According to Ernesto Castro, the majority of Nuevas Ideas' deputies were seeking re-election.[55] During the primaries, 60 legislative candidates,[52] 44 municipal candidates,[56] and 20 PARLACEN candidates were also confirmed.[57] Nuevas Ideas formed one municipal coalition with GANA for San Miguel Centro and two municipal coalitions with Democratic Change for Sonsonate Oeste and Santa Ana Norte.[58]

Nationalist Republican Alliance

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On 16 July 2023, the Nationalist Republican Alliance elected 42 municipal candidates and 60 candidates to the Legislative Assembly.[59] According to Citizen Action, ARENA stated that it would not disclose its entire list of candidates due to alleged threats made against its candidates for participating in the elections.[60]

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

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In July 2023, Ángel Monge, a member of the FMLN's political commission, stated that the FMLN would not form coalitions for the Legislative Assembly but would still consider forming coalitions for the municipal elections.[61] The party elected 44 municipal candidates and 60 candidates for the Legislative Assembly from all 14 departments on 16 July 2023.[62] According to Citizen Action, the FMLN stated that it would not disclose its entire list of candidates due to alleged threats made against its candidates for participating in the elections.[60]

Grand Alliance for National Unity

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The Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) formed one municipal coalition with Nuevas Ideas for San Miguel Centro and one municipal coalition with the PCN for Chalatenango Centro.[58] Unlike in the 2021 election, GANA did not form coalitions with Nuevas Ideas for the Legislative Assembly elections.[63]

National Coalition Party

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The PCN formed a coalition with the Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, or PDC) to jointly contest both legislative seats of Morazán.[64] It also formed a coalition with the Citizen Power civil movement for legislative seats and municipalities in San Salvador. The coalition is unofficial as Citizen Power is not a registered political party.[65] The PCN formed one municipal coalition with GANA for Chalatenango Centro and two municipal coalitions with the PDC for the Morazán Norte and Morazán Sur.[58]

Christian Democratic Party

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The PDC formed a coalition with the PCN to jointly contest both of Morazán's legislative,[64] as well as the seats for both the Morazán Norte and Morazán Sur municipalities.[58] The PDC disclosed its full list of 20 legislative, 23 municipal, and 2 PARLACEN candidates on 24 September.[66]

Vamos

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Sofía Vaquerano, legal secretary of Vamos, stated that the party would not form coalitions with individuals who had been accused of being corrupt.[67] Initially, Claudia Ortiz stated that the party was open to forming a coalition with other parties,[68] but later stated that the party would not seek any political coalition.[69]

Other parties

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The Salvadoran Independent Party (PAIS) legislative, municipal, and PARLACEN candidates to the TSE, however, Roy García (the party's leader) stated on Facebook that this announcement was not legitimate and that all of the party's candidates were invalid. He added that the party should wait and reorganize for the 2027 legislative election.[70] On 4 October, the TSE passed a resolution to deregister the party and bar it from participating in the 2024 election.[71]

Solidary Force formed a municipal coalition with Democratic Change for Usulután Oeste.[58] The Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity (FPS) did not register any legislative candidates.[72] but it did register 20 PARLACEN candidates.[73] Democratic Change formed two municipal coalitions with Nuevas Ideas for Sonsonate Oeste and Santa Ana Norte and one municipal coalition with Solidary Force for Usulután Oeste.[58] Salvadoran Democracy did not participate in the 2024 election.[74]

Registration for independent candidates began on 5 May 2023[75] and ended on 5 September.[76] Manuel Meléndez was the only independent to begin registration with the TSE, however, he abandoned the registration process on 16 August.[77]

Opinion polls

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Main article: Opinion polling for the 2024 Salvadoran general election

Various groups such as CIESCA, Fundaungo, La Prensa Gráfica, TResearch, and UFG conducted opinion polling prior to the 2024 presidential election; virtually every poll indicated significant leads for Bukele.[78]

Local regression of polls conducted for the 2024 Salvadoran legislative election

Results

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Legislative Assembly results

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A parliament diagram chart depicting the results of the 2024 Salvadoran legislative election totaling 60 seats
A parliament diagram chart depicting the hypothetical results of the 2024 Salvadoran legislative election had electoral reforms not occurred totaling 84 seats
Composition of the Legislative Assembly after the 2024 election (top) and its composition had the electoral reforms of June 2023 not occurred (bottom)[79]

The TSE published the legislative election's final results on 18 February; Nuevas Ideas won 54 out of 60 seats, a supermajority. ARENA and the PCN both won two seats while Vamos and the PDC each won one seat.[80] The FMLN, GANA, and Nuestro Tiempo lost all of their seats in the Legislative Assembly, while the Democratic Change and Solidary Force parties failed to win any seats.[80][81] Additionally, Nuestro Tiempo and Democratic Change failed to receive more than 50,000 votes and could possibly lose registration with the TSE per article 47, section C of the Law of Political Parties, which mandates the dissolution of such parties.[82]

On 25 February 2024, Citizen Action published its findings regarding what the results of the legislative election would have been had the Hare quota (largest remainder method remained) in place, the Legislative Assembly had not been reduced from 84 to 60 seats, and the votes from expatriates had not been considered—the manner in which previous legislative elections were conducted prior to the June 2023 electoral reforms. According to the group's findings, the composition of the Legislative Assembly would have been: Nuevas Ideas with 60 seats, ARENA with 7, the FMLN with 6, GANA and Vamos with 3 each, the PCN and PDC with 2 each, and Nuestro Tiempo with 1. According to Citizen Action, the electoral reforms only benefited Nuevas Ideas. It also concluded that, even without the results, the party and its allies would have retained a two-thirds majority.[79]

A parliament diagram chart depicting the results of the 2024 Salvadoran legislative election totaling 60 seats
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nuevas Ideas2,200,33270.5654–2
Nationalist Republican Alliance227,3577.292–12
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front195,9206.280–4
National Coalition Party101,6413.262+1
Grand Alliance for National Unity99,3443.190–5
Christian Democratic Party93,1082.9910
Vamos91,6752.9410
Solidary Force51,0211.640New
Nuestro Tiempo41,0601.320–1
Democratic Change12,1650.3900
PDC–PCN4,9130.160–
Total3,118,536100.0060–24
Valid votes3,118,53696.46
Invalid votes74,1462.29
Blank votes40,2081.24
Total votes3,232,890100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,214,39952.02
Source: TSE at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 March 2024)

Results by department

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See also: List of members of the XIV Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

The following table displays the number of votes and seats each political party received from each of the country's 14 departments. The vote total for San Salvador includes votes cast from the exterior. The party with the most votes in a department is highlighted in its party color and the party with the second most votes and seats in a department is in gray.

Department NI ARENA FMLN GANA PCN PDC[e] NT V CD FS Blank/invalid Total
V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V % S V V
Ahuachapán 102,131 61.70 2 12,276 7.42 0 6,713 4.06 0 997 0.60 0 34,824 21.04 1 — 0 916 0.55 0 — 0 — 0 7,676 4.64 0 7,080 173,087
Cabañas 40,038 63.50 2 5,106 8.10 0 4,446 7.05 0 9,688 15.37 0 2,186 3.47 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 1,585 2.51 0 — 0 2,980 66,029
Chalatenango 44,111 48.13 1 6,168 6.73 0 10,930 11.93 0 502 0.55 0 29,564 32.26 1 — 0 — 0 — 0 367 0.40 0 — 0 4,443 96,083
Cuscatlán 83,427 67.38 2 11,866 9.58 0 11,460 9.25 0 10,149 8.20 0 5,883 4.75 0 — 0 — 0 — 0 1,039 0.84 0 — 0 4,188 128,012
La Libertad 259,669 69.16 6 38,913 10.36 1 17,409 4.64 0 7,709 2.05 0 5,817 1.55 0 8,785 2.34 0 14,280 3.80 0 16,679 4.44 0 1,927 0.51 0 4,301 1.15 0 13,714 389,204
La Paz 99,653 67.54 3 20,088 13.62 0 8,067 5.47 0 5,067 3.43 0 925 0.63 0 1,433 0.97 0 745 0.50 0 2,143 1.45 0 886 0.60 0 8,537 5.79 0 5,409 152,952
La Unión 78,921 78.11 2 6,805 6.74 0 5,812 5.75 0 5,690 5.63 0 1,579 1.56 0 1,334 1.32 0 — 0 — 0 897 0.89 0 — 0 4,586 105,621
Morazán 50,737 63.43 2 4,977 6.22 0 12,930 16.17 0 5,481 6.85 0 — 0 5,397 6.75 0 — 0 — 0 464 0.58 0 — 0 3,583 83,569
San Miguel 113,455 59.71 4 6,674 3.51 0 15,385 8.10 0 7,072 3.72 0 3,521 1.85 0 40,308 21.21 1 — 0 — 0 771 0.41 0 2,813 1.48 0 9,661 199,659
San Salvador 828,219 76.70 14 63,044 5.84 1 50,309 4.66 0 23,229 2.15 0 7,070 0.65 0 11,398 1.06 0 21,579 2.00 0 67,235 6.23 1 — 0 7,684 0.71 0 29,773 1,109,540
San Vicente 47,132 65.77 2 6,638 9.26 0 8,623 12.03 0 4,961 6.92 0 1,023 1.43 0 810 1.13 0 — 0 — 0 553 0.77 0 1,920 2.68 0 2,948 74,607
Santa Ana 195,265 74.87 5 15,715 6.03 0 10,376 3.98 0 13,029 5.00 0 3,204 1.23 0 7,336 2.81 0 2,949 1.13 0 4,808 1.84 0 1,104 0.42 0 7,020 2.69 0 11,222 272,027
Sonsonate 156,282 69.57 5 22,048 9.82 0 12,874 5.73 0 3,076 1.37 0 5,041 2.24 0 19,611 8.73 0 — 0 — 0 1,530 0.68 0 4,176 1.86 0 9,166 233,804
Usulután 101,295 74.56 4 7,040 5.18 0 20,587 9.48 0 2,695 1.98 0 881 0.65 0 2,543 1.87 0 591 0.44 0 — 0 1,044 0.77 0 6,894 5.07 0 5,069 148,640
Total 2,200,332 70.56 54 227,357 7.29 2 195,920 6.28 0 99,344 3.19 0 101,641 3.26 2 98,021 3.15 1 41,060 1.32 0 91,675 2.94 1 12,165 0.39 0 51,021 1.64 0 114,354 3,232,890
Source: TSE at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 March 2024)

Municipal results

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A parliament diagram chart depicting the results of the 2024 Salvadoran municipal elections totaling 44 municipalities
A parliament diagram chart depicting the hypothetical results of the 2024 Salvadoran municipal elections had electoral reforms not occurred totaling 262 municipalities
Composition of the municipalities after the 2024 election (top) and its composition had the electoral reforms of June 2023 not occurred (bottom)[84]

All 44 municipalities had winners declared.[85] Nuevas Ideas, GANA, the PDC, the PCN, Solidary Force, and ARENA all won at least one mayorship, while the FMLN, Vamos, Nuestro Tiempo, Democratic Change, and the Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity did not win any.[86] Turnout for the municipal election was the lowest since the end of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992.[87] In total, the opposition won 1 mayorship, 1 trustee, 24 proprietary aldermen, and 23 substitute aldermen in 16 of the 44 municipal councils; this accounts for around 10 percent of all municipal council positions. Nuevas Ideas and its allies won the remaining 90 percent of municipal council positions.[88]

According to La Prensa Gráfica, had the reduction of municipalities not occurred, Nuevas Ideas would have still won the most municipalities, but it would not have won more than half of the municipalities, instead winning only 122 compared to 152 in 2021. Additionally, the FMLN and Democratic Change, parties which failed to win any municipalities, would have won 21 and 1 municipalities, respectively.[84]

A parliament diagram chart depicting the results of the 2024 Salvadoran municipal election totaling 44 seats
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nuevas Ideas592,08436.6326–124
Grand Alliance for National Unity216,66413.416–21
Christian Democratic Party180,37711.164+3
Nationalist Republican Alliance158,0899.781–34
National Coalition Party120,2677.443–10
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front125,7337.780–30
Solidary Force70,4554.361New
Democratic Change52,3563.2400
NI–CD24,1691.502–
PCN–PDC22,4461.391–
NI–GANA15,9920.990–
Nuestro Tiempo15,2020.9400
Vamos8,9940.560–1
Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity7,4400.460New
PCN–GANA5,9480.370–
Total1,616,216100.0044–218
Valid votes1,616,21698.11
Invalid votes27,2781.66
Blank votes3,8650.23
Total votes1,647,359100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,517,75429.86
Source: TSE

PARLACEN results

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Turnout for the PARLACEN election was the lowest in 25 years and reached just 29.88%.[89] La Prensa Gráfica attributed the low turnout and almost 10 percent of the vote being blank or invalid to PARLACEN's general unpopularity in El Salvador, with many invalid ballots containing messages questioning PARLACEN's functions or relevance.[90]

A parliament diagram chart depicting the results of the 2024 Salvadoran PARLACEN election totaling 20 seats
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Nuevas Ideas799,43353.7513–1
Nationalist Republican Alliance163,43310.992–1
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front122,9268.262+1
Grand Alliance for National Unity116,5497.842+1
Christian Democratic Party114,3707.691+1
National Coalition Party91,4746.150–1
Solidary Force48,8563.280New
Democratic Change30,2842.040New
Total1,487,325100.00200
Valid votes1,487,32590.22
Invalid votes86,8245.27
Blank votes74,3454.51
Total votes1,648,494100.00
Registered voters/turnout5,517,75429.88
Source: TSE

Aftermath

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After the results of the legislative election were published, Lourdes Argueta, a member of the FMLN's political commission, stated that the party "did not need a seat to [...] defend the people's interests".[91] Regarding Claudia Ortiz winning re-election to the Legislative Assembly with Vamos, Mauricio Funes stated that she "has fought the battle and I am sure that she will continue to fight".[92] The Resistance and Popular Rebellion Bloc called for Salvadorans to "reject this electoral farce".[93] When asked about Nuevas Ideas' 500,000-vote difference between the presidential and legislative elections, Castro stated that "there is no comparison" and that such comparisons were "apples to oranges" ("peras a manzanas") as Bukele was a "phenomenon at the global level".[94] After GANA lost all its seats in the Legislative Assembly, Gallegos, who himself lost his seat, stated that he would continue to support Bukele regardless of his political situation.[95]

After polling stations closed for the municipal and PARLACEN elections, Bukele posted on X that Nuevas Ideas and its allies had won 43 of the 44 municipalities, claiming that the only municipality the opposition won was La Libertad Este.[96] He acknowledged that some of Nuevas Ideas' municipal candidates lost as voters were unsatisfied with their current tenures.[97] Bukele's announcement came before any official announcement from the TSE.[96] Milagro Navas, ARENA's sole elected mayor, celebrated her victory against Minister of Housing Michelle Sol and stated that she would cooperate with Bukele's government.[98] After the FMLN failed to win any mayorships, the party leadership stated that the FMLN would undergo a "total reorganization",[99] adding that "this is not the end, it is the closing of a chapter".[100]

Accusations of irregularities

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The TSE released the first preliminary results late on 4 February 2024, but stalled until the morning of 5 February, with its website crashing shortly before midnight local time. The TSE attributed the delay to "multiple actions that have hampered the development of the transmission activities of preliminary results" and shortages of paper to print out vote tallies. It advised electoral boards at polling stations to resort to contingency measures such as tallying votes by hand and taking photographs or scans of manual tallies before sending them to the TSE.[101] Deputies from ARENA, the FMLN, Vamos, and Nuestro Tiempo criticized the TSE's counting delay.[102] Nuestro Tiempo claimed that there were inconsistencies between preliminary vote totals published by the TSE in published statements and on its website.[103]

ARENA, the FMLN, Vamos, and Nuestro Tiempo all called for the TSE to launch a recount.[104] On 5 February 2024, the TSE stated that it would conduct a manually count the legislative ballots "vote by vote" at the José Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium,[105] and that the results would be finalized within 15 days.[106] The recount for legislative ballots began on 11 February[107] and ended on 18 February.[108] A similar recount occurred for the concurrent presidential election.[109] During the recount process, opposition politicians accused the TSE of manipulating the recount to benefit Nuevas Ideas by including unfolded ballots that were marked in black pen; according to the TSE's election procedures, only folded ballots filled out in black crayon were considered valid.[110][111][112]

Several people standing at a podium holding up pieces of paper
Opposition leaders with a proposal to nullify the results of the legislative election

On 6 February 2024, García Saade stated that ARENA would ask the TSE to nullify the Legislative Assembly election results as well as the concurrent presidential election results "not because of what has happened, but because of what will happen afterwards",[113] while the FMLN and Nuestro Tiempo stated they would ask the TSE to nullify the legislative election results due to irregularities.[114] On 10 February, ARENA stated that it would petition the TSE to postpone the municipal and PARLACEN elections by 15 days and to not use the same electoral system that was used during the presidential and legislative elections.[115] On 13 February, the TSE announced that it would not postpone the municipal or PARLACEN elections.[116] On 19 February, leaders from ARENA, Vamos, and Nuestro Tiempo jointly announced they had submitted a petition to the TSE to nullify the legislative elections due to irregularities and allegations of fraud.[117] Later that day, the FMLN stated it would do the same.[118] On 21 February, the TSE denied the joint petition, declaring it unfounded;[119] the TSE did the same for the FMLN's petition the following day.[120] In response to the TSE's declaration, Failer stated that the TSE was "ignoring the structural fraud that corrupted this election".[121]

Legislative transition

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A photograph of people inside the National Theater of El Salvador
Members of the 14th Legislative Assembly in 2025

The TSE ratified the results of the Legislative Assembly election on 18 March[122] and the municipal and PARLACEN elections on 11 April.[123][124] The TSE granted the elected deputies their legislative credentials on 20 March,[125] the elected mayors and council members their municipal credentials in late April 2024,[126] and the elected PARLACEN deputies on 25 April.[127] The elected legislative deputies, mayors, and municipal council members assumed office on 1 May 2024. That same day, the reductions of legislative seats and municipalities went into effect.[128][129] The 20 PARLACEN deputies are scheduled to assume office on 28 October 2026.[127]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The number of members on the municipal councils vary per department. Of the 44 municipalities, 2 have 15 members, 2 have 13 members, and 40 have 9 members. The councils themselves consist of 1 trustee, 4 (or 8 or 10) proprietary aldermen, and 4 substitute aldermen.[1]
  2. ^ Of the 120 seats in the Central American Parliament, El Salvador is allotted 20 seats. The remaining 100 seats were divided among the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.[2]
  3. ^ 21,000 km2 is approximately 8,100 sq mi.
  4. ^ On 18 October 2022, the Legislative Assembly passed the a law that allowed Salvadorans living outside of the country to vote electronically in the Legislative Assembly election and the concurrent presidential election, but not the municipal or PARLACEN elections.[29][30]
  5. ^ The PDC's vote total includes the votes for the coalition between the PDC and the PCN in the department of Morazán: 360 for the PDC, 125 for the PCN, and 4,913 for PDC–PCN.[83]

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  97. ^ "Bukele Reconoce Voto de Castigo a Algunos Alcaldes pero Celebra que la Oposición solo Logró Una Alcaldía" [Bukele Recognizes Punishing Votes to Some Mayors but Celebrates that Opposition Only Earned One Mayorship]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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  102. ^ Reyes, Magdalena (5 February 2024). "Partidos de Oposición se Quejan de la Tardanza de Resultados del Escrutinio Final" [Opposition Parties Complain of the Delay of the Final Scrutiny Results]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  103. ^ Crespín, Verónica (5 February 2024). "Nuestro Tiempo Señala Inconsistencias en Resultados Preliminares Divulgados por el TSE" [Nuestro Tiempo Signals Inconsistencies in Preliminary Results Published by the TSE]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  104. ^ Martínez, Verónica (5 February 2024). "Oposición Pide Recuento "Voto por Voto" ante Irregularidades en el Sistema de Transmisión de Datos" [Opposition Asks for Recount "Vote by Vote" after Irregularities in the Data Transmission System]. La Noticia SV (in Spanish). San Salvador, El Salvador. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
  105. ^ Magaña, Yolanda (6 February 2024). "TSE Contará Voto por Voto para Definir Diputados, por Fallas en la Transmisión" [TSE Will Count Vote by Vote to Define Deputies, due to Faults in the Transmission]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  106. ^ García, Jessica (6 February 2024). "TSE Tendría Resultados Oficiales Dentro de Dos Semanas, Dice Magistrado" [TSE Will Have Official Results Within Two Weeks, Says Magistrate]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  107. ^ Villeda, Jaqueline (12 February 2024). "TSE Inicia Escrutinio de Votos Legislativos, ARENA se Retira" [TSE Initiates Scrutiny for Legislative Votes, ARENA Resigns]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  108. ^ Jordán, Laura; Hernández, Alejandra (18 February 2024). "TSE Anuncia que Terminó de Escrutar los Votos para Diputados" [TSE Announces it Completed Counting the Votes for Deputy]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  109. ^ Magaña, Yolanda (7 February 2024). "TSE Inicia Proceso de Eccrutinio Final y Alista Recuento de Votos 2024" [TSE Begins Process of Final Results and Begins Recount of Votes]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  110. ^ Alemán, Marcos; Janetsky, Megan (19 February 2024). "El Salvador's Bukele Wins Supermajority in Congress after Painstaking Vote Count". Associated Press. San Salvador and Mexico City. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  111. ^ Alfaro, Xiomara (13 February 2024). "Papeletas Marcadas con Plumón y Votos Nulos Reconocidos como Válidos, Entre Irregularidades Denunciadas en Escrutinio" [Ballots Marked with Pen and Null Votes Recognized as Valid, Among Irregularities Denounced in the Scrutiny]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  112. ^ Villarroel, Gabriela; Urbina, Javier; Portillo, Denni (13 February 2024). "Denuncian Actas con Votos de Más, Papeletas Sin Doblez y Marcadas con Plumón" [They Denounce Acts with Extra Votes, Unfolded Ballots and Marked with Pen]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  113. ^ Erazo, Ronald (6 February 2024). "ARENA Pedirá Anular las Elecciones Presidenciales y Legislativas, Confirma el Presidente del Partido" [ARENA Will Ask to Annul the Presidential and Legislative Elections, Confirms the President of the Party]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  114. ^ Peñate, Susana (7 February 2024). "FMLN y Nuestro Tiempo Analizan Pedir Nulidad de la Elección Legislativa" [FMLN and Nuestro Tiempo Analyze Asking to Nullify the Legislative Election]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  115. ^ Maldonado, Javier (10 February 2024). "ARENA Solicitará a TSE Posponga 15 Días las Elecciones de Alcaldes y PARLACEN" [ARENA Will Ask the TSE to Postpone the Mayoral and PARLACEN Elections by 15 Days]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  116. ^ Magaña, Yolanda; Crespín, Verónica (14 February 2024). "TSE no Aplazaría Elecciones del 3 de Marzo y Prepara Papeletas" [TSE Will Not Postpone the 3 March Elections and Prepares Ballots]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  117. ^ Magaña, Yolanda (19 February 2024). "Vamos, NT y ARENA Piden al TSE Nulidad de Elecciones Legislativas Porque "se Falseó Voluntad Popular"" [Vamos, NT, and ARENA Ask the TSE to Nullify the Legislative Elections Because "the Popular Will was Falsified"]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  118. ^ Peñate, Susana (19 February 2024). "FMLN También Pide la Nulidad de las Elecciones Legislativas" [FMLN Also Asks to Nullify the Legislative Elections]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  119. ^ Villarroel, Gabriela (22 February 2024). "TSE Declara Improcedentes Peticiones de Nulidad de Elecciones Legislativas" [TSE Declares the Petition to Nullify the Legislative Elections as Unfounded] (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 February 2024.
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  122. ^ García, Jessica (18 March 2024). "TSE Ratifica Resultados de Elecciones Legislativas" [TSE Ratifies the Results of the Legislative Elections]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  123. ^ Quintanilla, Mariela (11 April 2024). "Acta del TSE Reconfirma 28 Alcaldías Cian" [TSE's Act Reaffirms 28 Cyan Mayorships]. Diario El Salvador (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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  129. ^ Calderón, Beatriz (1 May 2024). "El Salvador se Reduce a 44 Nuevos Municipios ¿Cómo se Llama el Suyo, Qué Distritos Incluye y Quién lo Gobernará?" [El Salvador Is Reduced to 44 New Municipalities. What Is Yours Called, What Districts Are Included, and Who Will Govern Them?]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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