Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador Asamblea Legislativa de la República de El Salvador
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	1824[1]
Leadership
President	Ernesto Castro (Nuevas Ideas) since 1 May 2021
Structure
Seats	84 Deputies
Political groups	Government: (64)   Nuevas Ideas (56)   GANA (5)   PCN (2)   PDC (1) Opposition: (20)   ARENA (13)   FMLN (4)   Nuestro Tiempo (1)   Vamos (1)   (1)
Elections
Last election	28 February 2021
Next election
Meeting place
San Salvador
Website
www.asamblea.gob.sv

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The Legislative Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Legislativa) is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador.

Structure[]

Blue Room of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.

The Salvadoran legislature is a unicameral body. It is made up of 84 deputies, all of whom are elected by direct popular vote according to open-list proportional representation to serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate re-election. Of these, 64 are elected in 14 multi-seat constituencies, corresponding to the country's 14 departments, which return between 3 and 16 deputies each. The remaining 20 deputies are selected on the basis of a single national constituency.

To be eligible for election to the Assembly, candidates must be (Art. 126, Constitution):

• Older than 25.
• Salvadoran citizens by birth, born of either a Salvadoran father or a Salvadoran mother.
• Of recognised honesty and education.
• Not have had the enjoyment of their rights as citizens cancelled in the previous five years.

Current Standing by Party[]

XIII legislative composition[]

Election results[]

Results[]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Nuevas Ideas	1,430,578	54.67	46	New
	Nuevas Ideas–GANA	311,723	11.91	10	–
	Nationalist Republican Alliance	206,328	7.88	9	−26
	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front	180,808	6.91	4	−14
	Grand Alliance for National Unity	135,223	5.17	5	−5
	ARENA–DS	99,003	3.78	4	–
	National Coalition Party	85,548	3.27	1	−8
	Nuestro Tiempo	44,401	1.70	1	New
	Christian Democratic Party	44,379	1.70	1	−1
	Vamos	26,492	1.01	1	New
	PCN–DS	21,211	0.81	1	–
	Democratic Change	14,768	0.56	0	−1
	ARENA–National Coalition Party	13,503	0.52	1	–1
	Independents	2,783	0.11	0	−1
Total		2,616,748	100.00	84	0
Registered voters/turnout		5,389,017	–
Source: TSE

Other parliamentary bodies[]

El Salvador also returns 20 deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament, also elected according to closed-list proportional representation from a single national constituency.

See also[]

• Politics of El Salvador
• List of legislatures by country
• List of presidents of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Spanish)

Coordinates: 13°42′22″N 89°11′58″W / 13.70611°N 89.19944°W / 13.70611; -89.19944