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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 2018 to choose 84 members of the Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors. The elections were carried out by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
The 84 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected by open list proportional representation from 14 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with seats allocated using the largest remainder method. [1]
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Nationalist Republican Alliance | 886,365 | 41.72 | 35 | +3 | |
| Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front | 521,257 | 24.54 | 18 | –13 | |
| Grand Alliance for National Unity | 243,268 | 11.45 | 10 | –1 | |
| National Coalition Party | 230,862 | 10.87 | 9 | +3 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 65,994 | 3.11 | 2 | +1 | |
| ARENA-PCN | 35,826 | 1.69 | 2 | –1 | |
| FMLN–CD | 24,405 | 1.15 | 3 | New | |
| PDC–PCN | 23,455 | 1.10 | 1 | 0 | |
| Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity | 20,026 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic Change | 19,869 | 0.94 | 1 | +1 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 15,610 | 0.73 | 0 | 0 | |
| FMLN–CD–PSD | 12,437 | 0.59 | 1 | New | |
| FMLN–PSD | 10,609 | 0.50 | 1 | New | |
| Independents | 14,546 | 0.68 | 1 | +1 | |
| Total | 2,124,529 | 100.00 | 84 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,124,529 | 89.59 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 246,796 | 10.41 | |||
| Total votes | 2,371,325 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 5,186,042 | 45.73 | |||
| Source: TSE | |||||
| Department | ARENA | FMLN | GANA | PCN | PDC | FPS | CD | PSD | Ind | |||||||||||||||
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| % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | % | S | |||||||
| Ahuachapán | 36.41 | 2 | 25.24 | 1 | 7.07 | 0 | 27.46 | 1 | 1.71 | 0 | 2.08 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Cabañas | 39.45 | 2 | 16.61 | 0 | 20.01 | 1 | 23.39 | 1 | - | - | 0.53 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Chalatenango | 29.96 | 1 | 25.91 | 1 | 12.29 | 0 | 30.19 | 1 | 0.77 | 0 | 0.18 | 0 | 0.52 | 0 | 0.15 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| Cuscatlán | 37.89 | 1 | 27.57 | 1 | 2.93 | 0 | 30.38 | 1 | - | - | 0.81 | 0 | - | - | 0.66 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| La Libertad | 53.71 | 5 | 25.57 | 3 | 10.09 | 1 | 6.20 | 1 | 2.35 | - | 0.98 | 0 | - | - | 1.05 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| La Paz | 44.15 | 2 | 26.87 | 1 | 18.23 | 1 | 7.56 | 0 | 1.66 | 0 | 0.43 | 0 | - | - | 1.06 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| La Unión | 47.35 | 2 | 26.09 | 1 | 12.11 | 0 | 7.58 | 0 | 6.26 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0.58 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| Morazán | 26.61 | 1 | 31.60 | 1 | 18.25 | 0 | 23.52 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| San Miguel | 32.33 | 2 | 29.02 | 2 | 17.90 | 1 | 1.15 | 0 | 18.04 | 1 | 0.56 | 0 | 0.72 | 0 | 0.25 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| San Salvador | 50.26 | 12 | 26.09 | 6 | 6.29 | 2 | 5.43 | 1 | 3.88 | 1 | 1.17 | 0 | 2.59 | 1 | 1.41 | 0 | 2.82 | 1 | ||||||
| Santa Ana | 38.08 | 3 | 19.10 | 1 | 13.57 | 1 | 16.46 | 1 | 9.99 | 1 | 1.98 | 0 | 0.79 | 0 | 0.18 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| San Vicente | 48.62 | 1 | 29.54 | 1 | 17.95 | 0 | 36.56 | 1 | - | - | 0.61 | 0 | - | - | 0.52 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| Sonsonate | 42.25 | 2 | 25.90 | 2 | 11.83 | 1 | 12.82 | 1 | 3.88 | 0 | 0.46 | 0 | 2.06 | 0 | 0.76 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| Usulután | 39.41 | 2 | 38.44 | 2 | 15.28 | 1 | 5.14 | 0 | - | - | 1.15 | 0 | - | - | 0.56 | 0 | - | - | ||||||
| Total | 41.72 | 38 | 24.54 | 23 | 11.45 | 10 | 10.87 | 9 | 3.11 | 3 | 0.94 | 0 | 0.94 | 1 | 0.73 | 0 | 0.68 | 1 | ||||||
| Source: TSE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Nationalist Republican Alliance | 962,807 | 41.80 | 140 | +11 | |
| Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front | 672,183 | 29.18 | 64 | –21 | |
| Grand Alliance for National Unity | 289,820 | 12.58 | 26 | +8 | |
| National Coalition Party | 241,850 | 10.50 | 25 | +5 | |
| Christian Democratic Party | 95,068 | 4.13 | 5 | –2 | |
| Salvadoran Patriotic Fraternity | 12,565 | 0.55 | 1 | +1 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 12,556 | 0.55 | 1 | 0 | |
| Democratic Change | 11,539 | 0.50 | 0 | –1 | |
| Salvadoran Progressive Party | 3,607 | 0.16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Salvadoran Democracy | 1,227 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 2,303,222 | 100.00 | 262 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 2,303,222 | 95.22 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 115,495 | 4.78 | |||
| Total votes | 2,418,717 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 5,186,042 | 46.64 | |||
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