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 V Josué Alvarado 0 NT Juan Valiente 0 NI–GANA – 0 ARENA–DS – 0 ARENA–PCN – 0 PCN–DS – 0
Map template of the election.
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	Conservatism	Andrés Rovira	11.45%	10 / 84
	PCN	National Coalition	Nationalism	Manuel Rodriguez	10.87%	9 / 84
	PDC	Christian Democratic	Christian democracy	Rodolfo Parker	5.11%	3 / 84
	CD	Democratic Change	Social democracy	Douglas Avilés	0.94%	1 / 84

Non-parliamentary parties

Name			Ideology	Leader
	V	Let's go	Centrism	Josué Alvarado
	N	New Ideas	Conservatism	Nayib Bukele
	NT	Our Time	Humanism	John Tennant Wright Sol
	DS	Salvadoran Democracy	Humanism	Adolfo Salume Artiñano

Retiring MPs

Ten incumbents did not run for re-election in 2021. Those incumbents are:

Party		Retirements	Department	Term
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Norman Quijano	San Salvador	May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2021
		Milena Mayorga
		Patricia Valdivieso		May 1, 2015 – April 30, 2021
		Alejandrina Castro		May 1, 2012 – April 30, 2021
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Karina Sosa
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	Gustavo Escalante	La Libertad
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	Manuel Flores
		Audelia López	Chalatenango
		Margarita López	Santa Ana
		Rodolfo Martínez	San Miguel

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.

Graphical summary

Graph of opinion polls conducted.

  NI

  ARENA

  FMLN

  GANA

Voting intention estimates

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size										Lead
CEC-UFG	13–17 Jan 2021	–	64.7	7.1	2.2	3.1	1.3	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.4	57.6
CID-Gallup	16 Dec 2020	–	70 60	6 10	5 2	9 6	3	1	2	0	0	61
CEOP-FUNDAUNGO	17 Nov–5 Dec 2020	2,159	60.3	4.9	2.7	4.5	0.6	0.3	–	0.3	0.5	55.4
IUDOP	10-24 Nov 2020	911	69.7 58	4.9 5	6.5 4	3.3 2	0.3 1	–	–	0.3 1	0.3 1	44.8
CIPSECA	20–25 Oct 2020	–	59	14.0	7.0	13.0	4.0	2.4	–	0.2	0.2	45.0
UFG	14 Sep 2020	–	48	4.3	3.3	6.1	1.1	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.2	41.9
TResearch	23–27 Jul 2020	1,000	70.4	5	4.4	3.1	–	–	–	1.7	0.8	65.4
CID-Gallup	16 Jan 2020	–	37	10	3	3	–	–	–	–	–	27
CEC-UFG	7–11 Jan 2020	1,292	48.2	5.9	2.6	3.6	0.3	0.4	–	0.2	0.1	42.3
IUDOP-UCA	22 Nov–3 Dec 2019	1,265	42.4	6.9	5.2	3.7	–	–	–	–	–	35.5
CID-Gallup	19 Sep 2019	1,206	35	8	6	5	1	–	–	–	–	27
UFG Datos	1–5 Sep 2019	1,500	38.7	9	3.9	4.1	0.9	0.4	–	0.2	0.4	29.7
LPG Datos	21–26 Aug 2019	1,520	32.4	9.3	5.1	3.1	0.7	0.3	0.5	–	–	23.1
2019 presidential election	3 Feb 2019	2,733,178	–	31.7	14.4	53.1	–	–	–	0.7	–	21.4
CID-Gallup	29 Sep 2018	–	–	22	13	39	4	3	–	–	–	17
IUDOP-UCA	22 May 2018	1,263	38.5	30	8.9	1	–	–	–	–	–	8.5
2018 legislative election	4 Mar 2018	2,318,754	–	41.7	24.5	11.4	10.8	5.1	0.9	–	–	17.2

Conduct

Controversial discussion between Olivo and Bukele

The Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Julio Olivo Granadino, has declared himself an opponent of the Government of the President, Nayib Bukele.[3] For this new magistracy in the TSE, Olivo was the first candidate of the preselection proposed by the FMLN. His appointment to said institution faced a lawsuit of unconstitutionality, presented by the constitutional lawyer Salvador Enrique Anaya.

New Ideas candidates refused registration

Through its social networks, the New Ideas political party denounced that the Electoral Board (JED), of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), in Cabañas refused to register its candidates so that they could participate in the elections.[4]

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
3. "TSE Magistrate, Julio Olivo declares himself a political opponent of the Government of Nayib Bukele". diariolahuella.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
4. "They denounce that the Departmental Electoral Board of the TSE in Cabañas does not want to register candidates from New Ideas". diariolahuella.com. Retrieved 17 November 2020.

External links

• Tribunal Supremo Electoral (in Spanish)