1984 Salvadoran presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 25 March 1984, with a second round on 6 May.[1] A new president was elected, together with a vice president, for a five-year term. The result was a victory for José Napoleón Duarte of the Christian Democratic Party.
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The elections were held under military rule amidst high levels of repression and violence, and candidates to the left of Duarte's brand of Christian Democrats were excluded from participating.[2]
Nevertheless, the election was considered the first fair and just in El Salvador after the 1931 election.[citation needed]
Results
edit| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| José Napoleón Duarte | Christian Democratic Party | 549,727 | 43.41 | 752,625 | 53.59 | |
| Roberto D'Aubuisson | Nationalist Republican Alliance | 376,917 | 29.77 | 651,741 | 46.41 | |
| Francisco José Guerrero | National Conciliation Party | 244,556 | 19.31 | |||
| René Fortin Magaña | Democratic Action | 43,939 | 3.47 | |||
| Francisco Quiñones Ávila | Salvadoran Popular Party | 24,395 | 1.93 | |||
| Roberto García Escobar | Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party | 15,430 | 1.22 | |||
| Juan Ramón Rosales | Centrist Republican Stable Movement | 6,645 | 0.52 | |||
| Gilberto Trujillo | Popular Orientation Party | 4,677 | 0.37 | |||
| Total | 1,266,286 | 100.00 | 1,404,366 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 1,266,286 | 89.21 | 1,404,366 | 92.15 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 153,217 | 10.79 | 119,713 | 7.85 | ||
| Total votes | 1,419,503 | 100.00 | 1,524,079 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: Nohlen | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ^ Chitnis, Pratap C. (1984). "Observing El Salvador: The 1984 Elections". Third World Quarterly. 6 (4): 963–980. doi:10.1080/01436598408419809. ISSN 0143-6597. JSTOR 3991805.
