1960 Salvadoran legislative election

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1960 Salvadoran legislative election
← 1958 24 April 1960 1961 →
All 54 seats in the Legislative Assembly
  Majority party
 
Party PRUD
Last election 54
Seats won 54
Seat change Steady
Popular vote 368,545
Percentage 87.7%
Swing Decrease 12.3%
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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 24 April 1960.[1] The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 54 seats after the Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidates of the in seven of fourteen constituencies.[2]

Results[]

Salvadoran legislative election, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1960.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification368,54587.73540
51,55712.270New
Total420,102100.00540
Source: Nohlen

References[]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ^ Nohlen, p282

Bibliography[]

  • Political Handbook of the world, 1960. New York, 1961.
  • Benítez Manaut, Raúl. 1990. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990).
  • Eguizábal, Cristina. 1984. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984).
  • Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems.
  • Kantor, Harry. 1969. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company.
  • Ruddle, Kenneth. 1972. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA.
  • Webre, Stephen. 1979. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. 1997. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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