1984 Salvadoran presidential election

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 25 March 1984, with a second round on 6 May.^[1] The Salvadoran people elected a new president, together with a vice-president, for a five-year term. The result was a victory for José Napoleón Duarte of the Christian Democratic Party.

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 one after the 1931 election.

Results[]


Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	José Napoleón Duarte	Rodolfo Antonio Castillo Claramount	Christian Democratic Party	549,727	43.41	752,625	53.59
	Roberto D'Aubuisson	Hugo Barrera Guerrero	Nationalist Republican Alliance	376,917	29.77	651,741	46.41
	Francisco José Guerrero	Pío Arnulfo Ayala	National Conciliation Party	244,556	19.31
	René Fortin Magaña	Luis Nelson Segovia		43,939	3.47
	Francisco Quiñones Ávila	Ana Cecilia Campos de Tobar		24,395	1.93
	Roberto García Escobar	José Armando Mejía Romero		15,430	1.22
	Juan Ramón Rosales	Ignacio Luis Orlando López		6,645	0.52
	Gilberto Trujillo	Rafael Rivera		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[]

^ 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.

[N1-1] Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

[2] 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.

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