1970 Salvadoran legislative election

none January 2022 El Salvador 1968 1972 8 March 1970 All 52 seats in the Legislative Assembly 27 National Coalition Party (El Salvador) Fidel Sánchez 59.75 34 27 Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador) 27.01 16 19 UDN 6.14 1 New Salvadoran Popular Party 5.42 1 4 Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 8 March 1970.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 978-0-19-928357-6 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.Nohlen, p283 Voter turnout was just 41.6%. Results File:1970 Salvadoran legislative election.svg National Conciliation Party 315560 34 +7 Christian Democratic Party 142659 16 –3 Nationalist Democratic Union 32450 1 New Salvadoran Popular Party 28606 1 –3 National Revolutionary Movement 8832 0 –2 94463 0 1494931 Nohlen References 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. El Salvador Category:Legislative elections in El Salvador Legislative