1961 Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election
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.
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Results
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
| National Conciliation Party | 207,701 | 60.10 | 54 | |
| Union of Democratic Parties (PAR–PDC–PSD) | 64,916 | 18.78 | 0 | |
| National Action Party | 49,300 | 14.27 | 0 | |
| Authentic Constitutional Party | 23,665 | 6.85 | 0 | |
| Total | 345,582 | 100.00 | 54 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 789,805 | – | ||
| Source: Nohlen | ||||
References
- 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.
- Kantor, Harry. 1969. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company.
- McDonald, Ronald H. 1969. "Electoral behavior and political development in El Salvador." Journal of politics 31, 2:397-419 (May 1969).
- Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
- Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. 1997. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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