REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS OF 4 MARCH 2018 ============================================================================== Sources: Supreme Electoral Tribunal Website, Spanish Wikipedia Parties ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Arena - Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Nationalist Republican Alliance) * CD - Cambio Democrático (Democratic Change) * FMLN - Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion (Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation) * FPS - Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña (Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity) * GANA - Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional (Grand Alliance for National Unity) * PCN – Partido de Concertación Nacional (National Coalition Party) * PDC - Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Christian Democratic Party) * PSD - Partido Social Demócrata (Social Democratic Party) NATIONAL SUMMARY ============================================================================== Registered Voters: 5,186,042 Total Votes: 2,371,324 44.7 Invalid Votes: 246,803 10.4 Valid Votes: 2,124,521 89.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Party Votes % Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) 886,365 41.7 +02.8 35 +3 Arena-PCN 35,826 01.7 2 -1 Democratic Change (CD) 19,868 00.9 -00.7 1 +1 Front for National Liberation (FMLN) 521,256 24.5 -12.7 18 -13 FMLN-CD 24,405 01.1 3 +3 FMLN-PSD-CD 12,436 00.6 1 +1 FMLN-PSD 10,608 00.5 1 +1 Christian Democratic Party (PDC) 65,994 03.1 +00.6 2 +1 PDC-PCN 23,454 01.1 1 +1 Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity (FPS) 20,026 00.9 - Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) 243,267 11.5 +02.3 11 National Coalition Party (PCN) 230,861 10.9 +04.1 8 +4 Social Democratic Party (PSD) 15,610 00.7 00.0 - Others 14,545 00.7 1 -1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 2,124,521 84 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In some Departments various parties nominated joint slates of candidates. This makes it difficult to calculate party gains and losses. The FMLN’s loss of 13 seats, for example, does not take into account the five seats won by joint slates with other parties.