1994 Salvadoran general election

none January 2022 El Salvador 2,737,743 yes Presidential election Presidential 52.27% (first round) 2.43pp45.51% (second round) 1989 Salvadoran presidential election 1989 1999 Salvadoran presidential election 1999 20 March 1994 (first round)24 April 1994 (second round) Former Presidents and First Ladies of El Salvador.jpg 550 120 150 100 170 center Armando Calderón Sol Nationalist Republican Alliance Enrique Borgo Bustamante 818,264 68.35% Ruben Zamora at Interpeace Partners Forum.jpg Rubén Zamora Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera 378,980 31.65% President 300px First round results by department 300px Second round results by department 2 Alfredo Cristiani Nationalist Republican Alliance Armando Calderón Sol Nationalist Republican Alliance yes Legislative election 1991 1997 20 March 1994 All 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly 43 yes Nationalist Republican Alliance 45.03 39 39 FMLN 21.39 21 New Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador) 17.87 18 26 National Coalition Party (El Salvador) 6.21 4 9 Democratic Convergence (El Salvador) 4.45 1 8 Movement of Unity 2.49 1 New Elecciones legislativas de El Salvador de 1994 - Resultados por Departamento.svg Results by constituency General elections were held in El Salvador on 20 March 1994, with a second round of the presidential elections taking place on 24 April. The president, vice president, 84 members of the National Assembly, and 262 mayors, were all up for election this cycle.Farah Douglas 1994-03-18 VOTER REGISTRATION DISPUTES SURFACE IN SALVADORAN ELECTION https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/18/voter-registration-disputes-surface-in-salvadoran-election/396d91a1-a295-40ff-8f99-871851210d28/ 2026-09-12 registration The Washington Post 0190-8286 Armando Calderón Sol of the Nationalist Republican Alliance won the presidential elections, whilst his party also won the legislative elections. Voter turnout was 52.27% in the first round of the presidential elections and 45.51% in the second, whilst it was 53.08% for the legislative election.https://www.tse.gob.sv/documentos/memoria-de-elecciones/memoria-elecciones-1994.pdf Memoria de Labores de las Elecciones de 1994 Tribunal Supremo Electoral 2022-02-14 2022-03-10 Background This marked the first election in El Salvador since the signing of a peace agreement with the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a former guerrilla group that morphed into a political party after the agreement was signed.Farah Douglas 1994-03-17 A Ghost In Salvador's Elections https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/17/a-ghost-in-salvadors-elections/e69818a7-6e43-4252-b9b4-0786049eaaf4/ 2026-09-12 The Washington Post 0190-8286 A new electoral register was created after the signing of the peace agreement, in which roughly 780,000 individuals signed up to vote, which required the submission of a birth certificate or a duplicate for eligibility purposes. Of those individuals, around 74,000 of them did not receive voter registration cards. UN election observers reported that there were multiple cases of authorities withholding cameras to take pictures for registration cards in areas that generally supported the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. They also noted instances of mayors charging fees to duplicate lost birth certificates. Alfredo Cristiani, who had served as president under the Nationalist Republican Alliance party, was ineligible for re-election, so Calderón Sol, the erstwhile mayor of San Salvador, became the nominee for the party. During this election, Calderón Sol was complimentary of former party leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, who founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance on anti-communist principles, while also seeking it expand its appeal by rebranding as a more mainstream conservative party. Explaining his approach, Calderón Sol said that "we are faithful to our past in the defense of free enterprise, a market economy, private property and individual liberties. But we use a different rhetoric, softer, more profound, easier for other groups to understand." The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) conducted oversight on both the 20 March 1994 general election and later the 24 April 1994 presidential run-off election,1994-08-07 Election Observation El Salvador, March 20 - April 24, 1994 https://www.ifes.org/publications/election-observation-el-salvador-march-20-april-24-1994 2026-09-12 International Foundation for Electoral Systems which was triggered after no candidate exceeded the 50% threshold.Wilkinson Tracy Rightist Gets Landslide Win in El Salvador https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-25-mn-50274-story.html 2026-09-12 Los Angeles Times The IFES wrote in their report that the voting process was completed in an "orderly, peaceful and transparent fashion which permitted the popular will of the Salvadoran people to be expressed", while also recognizing deficiencies in the "logistical organization of the elections along with problems with the electoral registry." They believed that there was an insufficient number of voting centers, resulting in difficulties in voters finding their names on the registry. The IFES also found shortcomings in voting center accessibility, which they attributed to inadequate public transportation and large distances between certain citizens and their polling places. 16,000 voting center officials received training for the election, of which 5,000 of them worked during election day. Results President Armando Calderón Sol Enrique Borgo Bustamante Nationalist Republican Alliance 651632 818264 Rubén Zamora Francisco Roberto Lima Rivera FMLN–CD 331629 378980 Fidel Chávez Mena Atilio Vieytez Christian Democratic Party 215936 Roberto García Escobar Roberto Marchesini National Conciliation Party 70854 Jorge Martínez Arístides Escobar Benítez Movement of Unity 31925 Edgardo Engelhard José Roberto Rivas Iglesias Movement of National Solidarity 13959 lightgreen Rina Victoria Escalante Edgar Saúl Romero Sánchez Authentic Democratic Christian Movement 10901 104199 48783 2737743 2737743 TSE, TSE Legislative Assembly File:1994 Salvadoran legislative election.svg Nationalist Republican Alliance 605775 39 0 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 287811 21 New Christian Democratic Party 240451 18 –8 National Conciliation Party 83520 4 –5 Democratic Convergence 59843 1 –7 Movement of Unity 33510 1 New Movement of National Solidarity 12827 0 New lightgreen Authentic Democratic Christian Movement 12109 0 –1 National Revolutionary Movement 9431 0 New #FFF000 108022 0 2737743 Nohlen,Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I 978-0-19-928357-6 TSE Municipalities Nationalist Republican Alliance 207 Christian Democratic Party 29 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 13 New National Conciliation Party 10 Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front–Democratic Convergence 2 Authentic Democratic Christian Movement 1 Movement of Unity 0 New Movement of National Solidarity 0 New lightgreen National Revolutionary Movement 0 New #FFF000 0 2737743 Supreme Electoral Courthttps://www.tse.gob.sv/documentos/memorias-de-elecciones/memoria-elecciones-1994.pdf Memoria Anual de Labores – Correspondiente a 1994 y Memoria de Labores de las Elecciones de 1994 Annual Memory of Labors – Correspondence to 1994 and Memory of Labors of the 1994 Elections es Supreme Electoral Court San Salvador, El Salvador July 1994 51 PARLACEN Nationalist Republican Alliance 605775 9 New Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front 287811 4 New Christian Democratic Party 240451 4 New National Conciliation Party 83520 1 New Democratic Convergence 59843 1 New Movement of Unity 33510 1 New Movement of National Solidarity 12827 0 New lightgreen Authentic Democratic Christian Movement 12109 0 New National Revolutionary Movement 9431 0 New #FFF000 0 2737743 Supreme Electoral Courthttps://www.tse.gob.sv/documentos/memorias-de-elecciones/memoria-elecciones-1994.pdf Memoria Anual de Labores – Correspondiente a 1994 y Memoria de Labores de las Elecciones de 1994 Annual Memory of Labors – Correspondence to 1994 and Memory of Labors of the 1994 Elections es Supreme Electoral Court San Salvador, El Salvador July 1994 37 References El Salvador Politics El Salvador General Category:Presidential elections in El Salvador Category:Legislative elections in El Salvador El Salvador El Salvador