1974 Salvadoran legislative election explained

Country:	El Salvador
Previous Election:	1972
Next Election:	1976
Election Date:	10 March 1974
Seats For Election:	All 52 seats in the Legislative Assembly
Majority Seats:	27
Nopercentage:	yes
Party1:	National Coalition Party (El Salvador)
Leader1:	Arturo Molina
Seats1:	36
Last Election1:	39
Party2:	National Opposing Union
Seats2:	15
Last Election2:	8
Party3:	United Independent Democratic Front
Seats3:	1
Last Election3:	1

Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 10 March 1974.^[1] The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 36 of the 52 seats whilst the National Opposing Union (UNO) (an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement and the Nationalist Democratic Union) won only 15. However, the election was marred by massive fraud and the official vote counts were not published.^[2]

Bibliography

• Political Handbook of the world, 1974. New York, 1975.
• Anderson, Thomas P. 1988. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition.
• Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead. 1984. Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador. Boston: South End Press.
• Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
• Webre, Stephen. 1979. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Notes and References

1. [Dieter Nohlen]
2. Nohlen, p283