Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election, 1961

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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

Parties and alliances	Votes	%	Seats
National Conciliation Party	207,701	60.1	54
Union of Democratic Parties¹	64,916	18.8	0
National Action Party	49,300	14.3	0
Authentic Constitutional Party	23,665	6.8	0
Invalid/blank votes		-	-
Total	345,582	100	54
Source: Nohlen

¹ The Union of Democratic Parties was an alliance of the Renovating Action Party, the Christian Democratic Party and the Social Democrat Party.

References

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

Bibliography

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Elections in the Americas : a data handbook/ ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
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