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e • d Summary of the 10 March 2012 Salvadoran Legislative Assembly election results
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) 870,418 39.76% 33 1
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) 804,760 36.76% 31 4
Grand Alliance for National Unity (Alianza por la Unidad Nacional) 210,101 9.6% 11 11
National Coalition (Concertación Nacional)1 157,074 7.18% 74 4
Party of Hope (Partido de la Esperanza)2 60,486 2.76% 14 4
Democratic Change (Cambio Democrático) 46,838 2.14% 1 0
National Liberal Party (Partido Nacional Liberal) 14,379 0.66% 0 0
People's Party (Partido Popular) 10,952 0.50% 0 0
Independents3 14,098 0.63% 0 0
Totals 2,215,589 100.00% 84 —
1Compared to National Conciliation Party in 2009.
2Compared to Christian Democratic Party in 2009.
3Five independent candidates.
4A MP from Chalatenango that won, ran on a joint CN and PES ticket and got 17,072 votes, or 0.78% (counted here for CN).
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal
e • d Summary of the 15 March 2009 Salvadoran presidential election results
Candidate – Party Votes %
Mauricio Funes – Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional) 1,354,000 51.32
Rodrigo Ávila – Nationalist Republican Alliance (Alianza Republicana Nacionalista) 1,284,588 48.68
Total 2,638,588 100.00
Invalid votes 20,550
Total votes (turnout 61.9%) 2,659,138
Registered voters 4,294,849
Source: TSE 1, TSE 2

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