2024 Salvadoran legislative election
4 February and 3 March 2024
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All 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly 31 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 52.02% ( 1.77pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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 for all 44 of the country's municipalities and all 20 of El Salvador's deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN).
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.