1970 Salvadoran legislative election
Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 8 March 1970.[1] The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 34 of the 52 seats. However, the election was marred by massive fraud.[2] Voter turnout was just 41.6%.[2]
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Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| National Conciliation Party | 315,560 | 59.75 | 34 | +7 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 142,659 | 27.01 | 16 | –3 | |
| Nationalist Democratic Union | 32,450 | 6.14 | 1 | New | |
| Salvadoran Popular Party | 28,606 | 5.42 | 1 | –3 | |
| National Revolutionary Movement | 8,832 | 1.67 | 0 | –2 | |
| Total | 528,107 | 100.00 | 52 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 528,107 | 84.83 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 94,463 | 15.17 | |||
| Total votes | 622,570 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,494,931 | 41.65 | |||
| Source: Nohlen | |||||
References
- Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- Nohlen, p283
Bibliography
- Political Handbook of the world, 1970. New York, 1971.
- Anderson, Thomas P. 1988. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition.
- Caldera T., Hilda. 1983. Historia del Partido Demócrata Cristiano de El Salvador. Tegucigalpa: Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Políticos.
- Eguizábal, Cristina. 1984. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984).
- Haggerty, Richard A., ed. 1990. El Salvador, a country study. Washington: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division.
- Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead. 1984. Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador. Boston: South End Press.
- Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
- Webre, Stephen. 1979. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
- White, Alastair. 1973. El Salvador. New York: Praeger Publishers.
- 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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