1961 Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election
El Salvador
17 December 1961
All 54 seats in the Constitutional Assembly
28 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader % Seats
PCN Julio Rivera 60.10 54
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in El Salvador on 17 December 1961.[1] The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won all 54 seats.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
National Conciliation Party207,70160.1054
Union of Democratic Parties (PAR–PDC–PSD)64,91618.780
National Action Party49,30014.270
Authentic Constitutional Party23,6656.850
Total345,582100.0054
Registered voters/turnout789,805–
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

Bibliography

  • Political Handbook of the world, 1961. New York, 1962.
  • Elections in the Americas : a data handbook/ ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
  • Anderson, Thomas P. 1971. Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
  • Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1967. El Salvador election factbook, March 5, 1967. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems.
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