The Supreme Electoral Court of El Salvador (TSE) announced this Friday: The winner of the presidential elections was Nayib Bukele from the ruling New Ideas (NI) party When the results of their final review of the current president were made official on February 4 82.66% election support.
TSE judge Dora Martínez said at the press conference that Nuevas Ideas received a total of 2 million 700 thousand 725 votes (82.66%), the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) 204 thousand 167 (6.25%) and the rightist Farabundo. Martí stated that the National Liberation Front (FMLN) received 204 thousand 167 votes (6.25%). The Nationalist People’s Alliance (Arena) received 177,881 (5.44%) votes. Participating in the presidential elections for the first time, the humanist center party Nuestro Tiempo received 65,076 (1.99%) votes, while the Fuerza Solidaria and Fraternidad Patriota Salvadoreña (FPS) groups received 23,473 (0.72%) and 19,293 (0.59%) votes. ), respectively.
The judge announced that there was an electoral roll of 6,214,399 citizens for the 2024 presidential elections, 3,268,466 of whom voted. participation rate 52.60%. He also noted that 15,064 abstention votes (0.46%) and 1,760 objection votes (0.05%) were counted.
Shortly before the results were made official, at the end of the review, Bukele emphasized the huge difference between him and his rivals in the X account and the 2019 results in which he achieved the majority. “In 2019, we won the presidency in the first round with more votes than all the other parties combined. But in 2024, we won with almost all the votes of all the parties in 2019, including us. Thank God. Thank you. Salvadoran people,” the president wrote. . The message was accompanied by a graphic that underlined: There is a big difference in votes compared to its rivals.
These results show that support for Bukele has increased, given that he collected 1,434,856 votes (equivalent to 53.10 percent) in the first presidential election, while the flow of votes from the two traditional parties has decreased. Arena positioned itself as the second force in the coalition of right-wing parties in 2019, reaching 857,084 votes, while FMLN received 389,289 votes.
The formalization of the results came last Sunday night after Bukele declared himself the winner with more than 85% of the votes, before the total number of voters and the percentage of abstentions were yet known. Thus, Bukele became the first president of El Salvador to be re-elected despite the constitutional banSince the country left decades of military dictatorship and entered democracy.