With an advantage in 57% of the municipalities, Nuevas Ideas has five times more municipalities than its ally GANA, which will rule in 27 municipalities.
Preliminary data from the TSE shows that the New Ideas party will emerge as the winner in at least 149 of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities after election day on February 28.
According to minutes processed until March 2 at 3 p.m., the cyan party has received the necessary votes to rule 57% of the country’s mayors. They are followed by ARENA, which emerges as the winner in 35 municipalities; the FMLN on 31; WINS in 27 and the PCN in 16. The parties PDC and VAMOS won 3 and 1 municipality respectively.
One of the counties won by the PDC is Metapán, where days before elections threw a plane with staple cut bills at propaganda for GANA candidate Ricardo Polanco.
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In the San Salvador department, Nuevas Ideas predominates in 18 of the 19 municipalities. Ayutuxtepeque was the only one who could have been kept by ARENA, as the mayor seeking reelection got 7,499 votes, surpassing 5,421 for New Ideas with 91.11% of the minutes processed. In the same department, the FMLN lost Mejicanos, where Nuevas Ideas won thanks to the coalition with the CD.
In the department of La Libertad, Nuevas Ideas appears to have won 16 of the 22 municipalities. The rest is divided among them: GANA (3), ARENA (2) and the PCN (1). The municipalities where ARENA has the advantage are Antiguo Cuscatlán and Jicalapa; while the municipalities where GANA has the advantage are Sacacoyo, Huizúcar and Tepecoyo.
Search this map, prepared by Alfa Geomatics and elsalvador.com, for the results for each of the municipalities and each of the parties. In addition to viewing the February 28 results, you can view the 2018 results. For better visualization of the map, we recommend viewing it on a desktop computer.
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