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.
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