{"iso":"SV","name":"El Salvador","flag":"\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb","vote":"Legislative Assembly \u00b7 seat projection","model":"seat","updated":"2026-05-23","source":"Recency-weighted mean of the most recent LPG Datos voting-intention polls, compiled from the public polling record. Roughly a fifth to a third of respondents remain undecided","credit":"Legislative Assembly results as published by the Tribunal Supremo Electoral. Elections are held and popular, but courts and electoral rules were remade to permit consecutive presidential re-election and a 2025 amendment lets Nayib Bukele seek office indefinitely","shares":{"NI":55.0,"VAMOS":2.7,"ARENA":1.3,"FMLN":0.8,"PCN":0.3,"PDC":0.2,"GANA":0.0},"polls":[{"date":"2026-05-23","pollster":"LPG Datos","shares":{"NI":55.0,"VAMOS":2.7,"ARENA":1.3,"FMLN":0.8,"PCN":0.3,"PDC":0.2,"GANA":0.0}},{"date":"2026-01-25","pollster":"LPG Datos","shares":{"NI":56.6,"VAMOS":1.7,"ARENA":1.0,"GANA":0.7,"FMLN":0.2,"PCN":0.2}}],"parties":{"NI":{"name":"Nuevas Ideas","color":"#00ADEF"},"ARENA":{"name":"Alianza Republicana Nacionalista","color":"#234B9A","name_en":"Nationalist Republican Alliance"},"FMLN":{"name":"Frente Farabundo Mart\u00ed para la Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional","color":"#D3252F","name_en":"Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front"},"PCN":{"name":"Partido de Concertaci\u00f3n Nacional","color":"#0B58DC","name_en":"National Coalition Party"},"GANA":{"name":"Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional","color":"#F28900","name_en":"Grand Alliance for National Unity"},"PDC":{"name":"Partido Dem\u00f3crata Cristiano","color":"#00732E","name_en":"Christian Democratic Party"},"VAMOS":{"name":"Vamos","color":"#104D8F"},"FS":{"name":"Fuerza Solidaria","color":"#E2E415","name_en":"Solidary Force"},"NT":{"name":"Nuestro Tiempo","color":"#93C97D"},"OTH":{"name":"Others","color":"#999999"}},"seats":{"NI":57,"VAMOS":2,"ARENA":1},"seat_meta":{"total":60,"majority":31,"method":"dhondt","threshold":0.0,"chamber":"Legislative Assembly","note":"Real system is D'Hondt PR across 14 departmental districts (chamber cut to 60 seats in 2024, no legal threshold); approximated as one national D'Hondt pool. A large undecided share depresses the reported percentages.","largest":"NI"},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Nayib Bukele, head of state and government, Nuevas Ideas","legislature":"Legislative Assembly \u00b7 60 seats, overwhelmingly held by the president's party","electoral_system":"The Assembly is elected by proportional representation and the president by two-round majority vote. Bukele won the concurrent 2024 presidential vote with 84.7 percent of the official count.","government_now":"Nuevas Ideas took 54 of 60 Assembly seats at the February 2024 election alongside Bukele's re-election, which required a court ruling reinterpreting the constitutional ban on consecutive terms.","context":"Bukele's gang crackdown under a state of exception in force since 2022 has imprisoned more than one percent of the population, collapsing homicide rates while drawing due-process criticism from rights groups. Presidential and legislative elections are scheduled for 28 February 2027 under new six-year term rules.","sources":"Open encyclopedic records of officeholders and official election results \u00b7 checked 2 Jul 2026"},"parties_info":{"NI":["Nuevas Ideas","New Ideas","Right-wing populist party founded by President Bukele; the dominant force, holding a 54-seat supermajority."],"ARENA":["Alianza Republicana Nacionalista","Nationalist Republican Alliance","Right-wing party that governed 1989-2009; now a marginal opposition remnant with two seats."],"FMLN":["Frente Farabundo Mart\u00ed para la Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional","Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front","Left-wing former guerrilla movement that governed 2009-2019; collapsed and now holds no seats."],"PCN":["Partido de Concertaci\u00f3n Nacional","National Coalition Party","Right-wing party rooted in the old military-era establishment; small opposition with two seats."],"GANA":["Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional","Grand Alliance for National Unity","Right-wing ARENA splinter that backed Bukele's 2019 run; now holds no seats."],"PDC":["Partido Dem\u00f3crata Cristiano","Christian Democratic Party","Centrist Christian democrats, once dominant in the 1980s; reduced to a single seat."],"VAMOS":["Vamos","Let's Go","Small centrist, reform-minded party; holds one seat, a rare non-Bukele voice."],"FS":["Fuerza Solidaria","Solidary Force","Small party; won no seats in 2024."],"NT":["Nuestro Tiempo","Our Time","Small centrist party; won no seats in 2024."],"OTH":["Others","","Aggregate of minor parties; no seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"Legislative Assembly","as_of":"2024 election","total":60,"seats":{"NI":54,"ARENA":2,"PCN":2,"PDC":1,"VAMOS":1,"FMLN":0,"GANA":0,"FS":0,"NT":0,"OTH":0}},"region_winners":{"Ahuachap\u00e1n":"NI","Santa Ana":"NI","Chalatenango":"NI","Caba\u00f1as":"NI","Moraz\u00e1n":"NI","San Miguel":"NI","La Uni\u00f3n":"NI","Sonsonate":"NI","La Libertad":"NI","La Paz":"NI","San Vicente":"NI","Usulut\u00e1n":"NI","Cuscatl\u00e1n":"NI","San Salvador":"NI"},"region_meta":{"election":"2024 Legislative Assembly election (4 February 2024)","source":"Legislative Assembly results as published by the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE)","note":"Each of the 14 departments, which serve as the Assembly's multi-member constituencies, is shaded by the party that won the most votes; Nayib Bukele's Nuevas Ideas led every department, including San Salvador where Vamos was only the second force, on its way to 54 of 60 seats."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2027-02-28","title":"Salvadoran legislative election","chamber":"Legislative Assembly","type":"scheduled"}}