2027 Salvadoran legislative election

2027 Salvadoran legislative election

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Current members

All 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly 31 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Current seats NI Xavier Zablah Bukele 54 ARENA Carlos García Saade 2 PCN Manuel Rodríguez 1 PDC Reinaldo Carballo 1 Vamos Cesia Rivas 1 Incumbent President Ernesto Castro Nuevas Ideas

Legislative and municipal elections are scheduled to be held in El Salvador on 28 February 2027, three years after the 2024 legislative election. Salvadorans will elect all 60 members of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador and all members of the country's 44 municipal councils. The election will occur with concurrent presidential elections.

Political background

Nuevas Ideas, the political party of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, won the 2024 legislative election in a landslide victory, winning 54 of the Legislative Assembly's 60 seats. ^{[1] : 360} Nuevas Ideas and allied parties also won 43 of the country's 44 municipalities and 16 of El Salvador's 20 seats in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). ^[2] The members of the 14th Legislative Assembly and the 44 municipal councils assumed office on 1 May 2024. ^{[3] [4]}

Electoral reforms

On 31 July 2025, the Legislative Assembly voted to reform the constitution of El Salvador. One of the reforms included El Salvador's withdrawal from PARLACEN, describing it as an "inefficient waste" ("gasto ineficiente"). Due to this withdrawal, El Salvador will not elect members to PARLACEN in 2027. ^[5] Another reform moved the date of the 2029 presidential election to 2027 and extended presidential terms to six years. This reform made it so future presidential and legislative elections will occur in concurrence with each other instead of being staggered. ^[6]

Electoral system

Electoral procedure

The number of seats in the Legislative Assembly assigned to each of the 14 departments

In February 2025, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) announced that it had scheduled the 2027 legislative and municipal elections to occur on 28 February 2027. ^{[2] [8]} Members of the Legislative Assembly will be elected via the D'Hondt method. ^[9] All legislative candidates must be Salvadoran citizens by birth and be at least 25 years old. ^{[10] : 273}

Political parties

Political parties must be registered with the TSE in order to participate in the 2027 presidential elections. As of August 2025 ^[update] , twelve political parties are eligible to participate in the election. ^[11]

Party			Leader	2024 results
				Legislative	Municipalities
	PDC	Christian Democratic Party Partido Demócrata Cristiano	Reinaldo Carballo	1 / 60	4 / 44
	FMLN	Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional	Manuel Flores	0 / 60	0 / 44
	GANA	Grand Alliance for National Unity Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional	Nelson Guardado	0 / 60	6 / 44
	V	Let's Go Vamos	Cesia Rivas	1 / 60	0 / 44
	PCN	National Coalition Party Partido de Concertación Nacional	Manuel Rodríguez	2 / 60	4 / 44
	ARENA	Nationalist Republican Alliance Alianza Republicana Nacionalista	Carlos García Saade	2 / 60	1 / 44
	NI	New Ideas Nuevas Ideas	Xavier Zablah Bukele	54 / 60	28 / 44
	NT	Our Time Nuestro Tiempo	Andy Failer	0 / 60	0 / 44
	DS	Salvadoran Democracy Democracia Salvadoreña	Adolfo Salume Artiñano	0 / 60	0 / 44
	PAIS	Salvadoran Independent Party Partido Independiente Salvadoreño	Roy García	0 / 60	0 / 44
	FPS	Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña	Óscar Morales Lemus	0 / 60	0 / 44
	FS	Solidary Force Fuerza Solidaria	Rigoberto Soto	0 / 60	1 / 44

See also

• Elections in El Salvador

References

1. Henríquez, Alexis (16 December 2024). "Entre la Reelección, la Transparencia y la Participación Ciudadana en el Proceso Electoral 2024 en El Salvador" [El Salvador: Between Reelection, Transparency, and Citizen Participation in the 2024 Elections]. Revista Elecciones (in Spanish). 23 (28). Mexico City, Mexico: 353–374. doi: 10.53557/Elecciones.2024.v23n28.12 . ISSN   1994-5272. OCLC   10791999921 . Retrieved 29 July 2025.
2. "Salvadoreños Elegirán a Diputados y Concejos Municipales en Elecciones de Febrero de 2027" [Salvadorans Will Elect Deputies and Municipal Councils in February 2027 Elections]. Infobae . 14 May 2025. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
3. Cortez, Arlen (1 May 2024). "Asamblea Legislativa Toma Posesión para el Periodo 2024–2027: Así Estará Conformada la Junta Directiva (+Video)" [The Legislative Assembly for the 2024–2027 Term Assumes Office: This Is How the Directive Junta Will Be Composed (+Video)]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2025.
4. Calderón, Beatriz (1 May 2024). "El Salvador se Reduce a 44 Nuevos Municipios ¿Cómo se Llama el Suyo, Qué Distritos Incluye y Quién lo Gobernará?" [El Salvador Is Reduced to 44 New Municipalities. What Is Yours Called, What Districts Are Included, and Who Will Govern Them?]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2025.
5. "El Salvador: Congreso Aprueba Reforma para Dejar el PARLACEN" [El Salvador: Congress Approves Reform to Leave PARLACEN]. DW Español (in Spanish). 31 July 205. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
6. Graham, Chris (1 August 2025). "El Salvador Scraps Term Limits, Paving Way for Bukele to Rule Indefinitely". BBC . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
7. Magaña, Yolanda (7 June 2023). "Aprueban Reducción a 60 Diputados y Eliminan Diputaciones por Residuos" [They Approve the Reduction to 60 Deputies and Eliminate Deputations for Residues]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2025.
8. "El Salvador Tendrá Elecciones en Febrero de 2027" [El Salvador Will Have Elections in February 2027]. Prensa Latina (in Spanish). 26 February 2025. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
9. Mondragón, Lissette (8 June 2023). "¿Qué es el Método D'Hondt, el Nuevo Sistema de Elección?" [What is the D'Hondt Method, the New Election System?]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 August 2025.
10. Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 270–299. ISBN   9780191557934. OCLC   58051010 . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
11. Mondragón, Lissette (13 August 2025). "Partidos de Oposición Sin Definir Participación en Elecciones Presidenciales" [Opposition Parties Have Not Confirmed Participation in the Presidential Election]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 August 2025.

External links

• Supreme Electoral Court website (in Spanish)