2019 Salvadoran presidential election

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2019 Salvadoran presidential election

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Opinion polls
Registered	5,268,411
Turnout	51.88% ( 3.44pp)
Nominee Nayib Bukele Carlos Calleja Hugo Martínez Party GANA ARENA FMLN Running mate Félix Ulloa Carmen Lazo Karina Sosa Popular vote 1,434,856 857,084 389,289 Percentage 53.10% 31.72% 14.41%
Results by department
President before election Salvador Sánchez Cerén FMLN Elected President Nayib Bukele GANA

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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024.

The election resulted in victory for Nayib Bukele of the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), who received 53%, defeating Carlos Calleja of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Hugo Martínez of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and Josué Alvarado of the centrist Vamos party.^[1] With his victory, Bukele became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) to not be a member of either ARENA or the FMLN, which had controlled the presidency in a two-party system from 1989 to 2019.

Prior to the elections, Bukele held a lead against Calleja, Martínez and Alvarado in virtually every poll conducted between July 2018 and January 2019. A second round in March was rendered unnecessary as Bukele won an outright majority; Bukele won a plurality in all of the country's fourteen departments, winning an outright majority in eight of them.^[2][3] Bukele was inaugurated on 1 June 2019.^[4]