El Salvador
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Description of Electoral System
(Courtesy of IFES election guide)
The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term. In the Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa), 84 members are elected by direct popular vote to serve 3-year terms.
Electoral Systems Snapshot
(Courtesy of Interntional IDEA)
| Electoral System for National Legislature | List PR |
| Type | PR |
| Tiers | 2 |
| Legislature Size (Directly elected, voting members) | 84, 84 |
| Electoral System for President | TRS |
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Elections 2009
El Salvador has 4.226,479 million citizens, 53.64% of which cast their vote on January 18th, 2009 to choose:
- 262 municipal councils
- 84 seats of the Legislative Assembly
- 20 seats of the Centroamerican Parliament
For that purpose, 9,533 polling sites, along the 262 municipalities in which the country is divided, were installed.
Then, on March 15th the presidential election followed. 62.43% of the 4.226,479 million Salvadorians went to vote. Mauricio Funes, in representation of Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), won by achieving 51.32% of the valid votes cast.
The six political parties of El Salvador are:
Elections in El Salvador
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
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.
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