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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 7 March 1999. The result was a victory for Francisco Flores of the Nationalist Republican Alliance, who won in the first round with 51.96% of the vote. [1]
| Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Francisco Flores Pérez | Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt | Nationalist Republican Alliance | 614,268 | 51.96 | |
| Facundo Guardado | María Marta Valladares | FMLN–USC | 343,472 | 29.05 | |
| Rubén Zamora | Roberto Meza | United Democratic Centre | 88,640 | 7.50 | |
| Rodolfo Parker | Donald Ricardo Calderón Lam | Christian Democratic Party | 67,207 | 5.68 | |
| Hernán Contreras | Julio Eduardo Moreno Niños | National Conciliation Party | 45,140 | 3.82 | |
| Salvador Nestor García | Mauricio Meyer | Democratic Republican League | 19,269 | 1.63 | |
| Francisco Ayala de Paz | Humberto Merlos Hernández | Party of the United People and the New Deal | 4,252 | 0.36 | |
| Total | 1,182,248 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,182,248 | 96.65 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 40,967 | 3.35 | |||
| Total votes | 1,223,215 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,171,224 | 38.57 | |||
| Source: TSE | |||||
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