1961 Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly election explained
| Country: | El Salvador |
| Previous Election: | 1960 |
| Next Election: | 1964 |
| Election Date: | 17 December 1961 |
| Seats For Election: | All 54 seats in the Constitutional Assembly |
| Majority Seats: | 28 |
| First Election: | yes |
| Party1: | PCN |
| Leader1: | Julio Rivera |
| Percentage1: | 60.10 |
| Seats1: | 54 |
| Map: | Elecciones legislativas de El Salvador de 1961 - Resultados por Departamento.svg |
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.
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.
Notes and References
- [Dieter Nohlen]
