2019 Salvadoran presidential election

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with voters electing a President and Vice President for a five-year term.[3][4]

2019 Salvadoran presidential election

3 February 2019
Turnout	51.88%
Candidate Nayib Bukele Carlos Calleja Hugo Martínez Party GANA ARENA FMLN Alliance Nuevas Ideas APNP — Home state San Salvador San Salvador La Unión Running mate Félix Ulloa Carmen Aída Lazo Karina Sosa Popular vote 1,434,856 857,084 389,289 Percentage 53.10%[1] 31.72% 14.41%
President before election Salvador Sánchez Cerén FMLN Elected President Nayib Bukele GANA

With 90% of the votes counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared former San Salvador mayor Nayib Bukele of the Grand Alliance for National Unity the winner with over 53% of the total vote, avoiding the need for the second round, which had provisionally been scheduled for March.[5][6] Upon his ascension to the presidency, Bukele will be the first President to not be from one of the two major parties (ARENA or the FMLN) since José Napoleón Duarte left office in 1989.

Candidates

Party		Presidential nominee	Running mate
	ARENA, PCN, PDC, DS	Carlos Calleja	Carmen Aída Lazo
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Hugo Martínez	Karina Sosa
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	Nayib Bukele	Félix Ulloa
	Vamos	Josué Alvarado	Roberto Rivera

Opinion polls

Date	Polling firm	Sample size					Undecided	None/abstaining	Lead
			Calleja (Alianza Por un Nuevo País)	Martínez (FMLN)	Alvarado (VAMOS)	Bukele (GANA)
30 July 2018	CID-Gallup[7]	806	24	5	0	38	33	–	14
31 July 2018	TResearchMx[8]	3,600	31.7	9.7	2.8	55.8	–	–	24.1
19 August 2018	TResearchMx[9]	3,600	30.2	9.7	1.1	55.9	–	3.1	25.7
28 August 2018	UFG[10]	1,295	23.0	10.0	2.3	37.7	26.0	1.0	14.7
31 August 2018	LPG Datos[11]	1,520	17.6	8.6	0.3	21.9	37.5	14.1	4.3
26 September 2018	CID-Gallup[12]	1,205	20	7	1	45	27		25
1 October 2018	TResearchMx[13]	1,000	32.4	10.9	1.1	54.6		1.0	22.2
8 October 2018	CONARES[14]	1,400	21.0	11.0	1.0	45.0	11.0	11.0	24.0
9 October 2018	CIOPS/UTEC[15]	2,133	21.0	10.5	1.0	48.0	19.5		27.0
15 October 2018	TResearchMx[16]	1,000	31.8	9.4	1.0	56.1		1.7	24.3
23 October 2018	ICP[17]	1,400	31.7	13.6	0.6	33.3		20.8	1.6
24 October 2018	TResearchMx[18]	1,000	32.1	9.3	1.1	56.5		1.0	24.4
29 October 2018	TResearchMx[19]	1,000	32.2	9.0	0.9	56.6		1.3	24.4
1 November 2018	CID-Gallup[20]	1,000	28	16	1	44		1.0	16
19 November 2018	UFG[21]	1,538	21.4	6.4	1.5	40.7	21.2	8.7	19.3
20 November 2018	Fundaungo[22]	1,068	14.2	10.2	1.9	35.1	10.0	28.6	20.9
25 November 2018	TResearchMx[23]	1,000	31.9	10.8	1.4	55.9	–	–	24
29 November 2018	LPG Datos[24]	2,000	16.8	6.9	0.5	28.9	5.7	41.2	12.1
5 December 2018	CIOPS/UTEC[25]	2,133	24.5	10.4	0.9	40.5	12.8	10.9	16.0
5 December 2018	TResearchMx[26]	1,000	31.3	10.4	1.3	57.0			25.7
7 December 2018	Fundaungo[27]	1,985	21.4	11.3	0.6	42.0	15.0	9.7	20.6
10 December 2018	UES[28]	1,557	17.34	8.73	0.26	48.43	25.24		31.09
11 December 2018	TResearchMx[29]	1,000	31.0	10.3	1.3	57.4			26.4
13 December 2018	IUDOP/UCA[30]	1,806	19.7	10.6	0.8	44.1	22.3	2.5	24.4
8 January 2019	Mitofsky	1 000	31.0	11.0	1.0	57.0			26.0
11 January 2019	CID-Gallup	1 000	23.0	8.0	1.0	42.0	26.0		19.0
15 January 2019	UFG	1 536	21.8	8.1	1.0	42.6	18.4	8.1	20.8
16 January 2019	CIOPS/UTEC	2 113	24.0	8.1	0.6	40.4	26.1		16.4
17 January 2019	CONARES	2 012	19.0	13.0	1.0	61.0	3.0	3.0	42.0
17 January 2019	CDOP	1 300	27.3	10.5	1.0	36.1	9.6	15.5	8.8

Results

Chart of popular vote

  GANA (53.10%)

  ARENA (31.72%)

  FMLN (14.41%)

  Vamos (0.77%)

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nayib Bukele	Grand Alliance for National Unity	1,434,856	53.10
	Carlos Calleja	Nationalist Republican Alliance	857,084	31.72
	Hugo Martínez	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	389,289	14.41
	Josué Alvarado	Vamos	20,763	0.77
Invalid or blank votes			31,186	–
Total			2,733,178	100
Registered voters/turnout			5,268,411	51.88
Source: TSE

By department

Department	GANA %	ARENA %	FMLN %	VAM %
Ahuachapán	43.05	36.10	20.38	0.47
Cabañas	47.17	39.61	12.92	0.30
Chalatenango	44.92	32.40	22.34	0.34
Cuscatlán	50.09	33.89	15.50	0.52
La Libertad	51.80	37.25	9.85	1.10
La Paz	57.59	29.41	12.53	0.47
La Unión	54.47	31.82	13.39	0.32
Morazán	39.10	32.13	28.54	0.23
San Miguel	54.34	24.36	20.80	0.50
San Salvador	58.32	29.99	10.53	1.16
Santa Ana	54.25	34.09	10.86	0.80
San Vicente	46.42	31.33	21.89	0.36
Sonsonate	52.94	31.62	14.87	0.57
Usulután	48.30	26.47	24.93	0.30
Total	53.10	31.72	14.41	0.77
Source: TSE

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