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2019 Salvadoran presidential election
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3 February 2019
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Opinion polls
Registered
5,268,411
Turnout
51.88% ( 3.44pp)
Nominee
Nayib Bukele
Carlos Calleja
Hugo Martínez
Party
GANA
ARENA
FMLN
Running mate
Félix Ulloa
Carmen Lazo
Karina Sosa
Popular vote
1,434,856
857,084
389,289
Percentage
53.10%
31.72%
14.41%
Results by department
President before election
Salvador Sánchez Cerén
FMLN
Elected President
Nayib Bukele
GANA
Politics of El Salvador
Constitution
Constitutional history
Abortion law
LGBT rights
Executive
President
Nayib Bukele
Claudia Rodríguez de Guevara (acting)
Vice President
Félix Ulloa
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Legislative Assembly
President: Ernesto Castro
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Recent elections
Presidential: 2014
2019
2024
Legislative: 2018
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Minister: Alexandra Hill Tinoco
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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024.
The election resulted in victory for Nayib Bukele of the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), who received 53%, defeating Carlos Calleja of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Hugo Martínez of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and Josué Alvarado of the centrist Vamos party.[1] With his victory, Bukele became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) to not be a member of either ARENA or the FMLN, which had controlled the presidency in a two-party system from 1989 to 2019.
Prior to the elections, Bukele held a lead against Calleja, Martínez and Alvarado in virtually every poll conducted between July 2018 and January 2019. A second round in March was rendered unnecessary as Bukele won an outright majority; Bukele won a plurality in all of the country's fourteen departments, winning an outright majority in eight of them.[2][3] Bukele was inaugurated on 1 June 2019.[4]
^Sweigart, Emilie (30 January 2019). "El Salvador: Meet the Candidates in Latin America's First Election of 2019". Americas Quarterly. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^"Así avanza el conteo de votos en las elecciones presidenciales de El Salvador". elsalvador.com. 3 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
^"El Salvador: anti-corruption candidate Nayib Bukele wins presidential election". The Guardian. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
^Toedte, Blaire (1 June 2019). "Nayib Bukele: El Salvador's Incoming Leader Promises 'New Era'". BBC. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
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