2021 Salvadoran legislative election

Legislative elections will be held in El Salvador in 2021 to elect the 84 members of the Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors.[1]

2021 Salvadoran legislative election
28 February 2021
All 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly
43 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats
ARENA Erick Salguero 37
FMLN Óscar Ortiz 23
GANA Andrés Rovira 10
PCN Manuel Rodriguez 9
PDC Rodolfo Parker 3
CD Douglas Avilés 1
NI Xavier Zablah Bukele 0
Incumbent President of the Legislative Assembly
Mario Ponce
PCN

Electoral system

The 84 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation from 14 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method.[2]

Parties

Parliamentary parties
Name Ideology Leader 2018 result
Votes (%) Seats
ARENA Nationalist Republican National conservatism Erick Salguero 41.72%
37 / 84
FMLN Farabundo Martí Socialism Óscar Ortiz 24.54%
23 / 84
GANA Grand Alliance Social conservatism Andrés Rovira 11.45%
10 / 84
PCN National Coalition Nationalism Manuel Rodriguez 10.87%
9 / 84
PDC Christian Democratic Christian democracy Rodolfo Parker 3.11%
3 / 84

Opinion polls

The following table lists estimates of intention to vote nationwide. Refusals are generally excluded from those of the party's vote, while the wording of the questions and the treatment of the answers "I don't know" and those that do not intend to vote may vary among the voting organizations. When available, seating projections are shown below the percentages in a smaller source.

Pollster Date Sample NI ARENA FMLN GANA PCN PDC CD Lead
LPG Datos 21–26 August 2019 1,520 32.4
 9.3
 5.1
 3.1
 0.7
 0.3
 0.5
 23.1
2019 presidential election 3 February 2019 2,733,178 —
 31.7
 14.4
 53.1
 —
 —
 —
 21.4
2018 legislative election 4 March 2018 2,318,754 — 41.7 24.5 11.4 10.8 5.1 0.94 17.2

References
  1. Big Victory Comes With Big Expectations for El Salvador’s Young New President World Politics Review, 11 February 2019
  2. El Salvador Election Passport


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