1958 Salvadoran legislative election

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All 54 seats in the Legislative Assembly
28 seats needed for a majority

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
PRUD	José Lemus	100	54	0

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Results by constituency

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Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 23 March 1958.^[1] The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 54 seats unopposed after opposition candidates withdrew from the elections.^[2]

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification	450,000	100.00	54	0
Total		450,000	100.00	54	0

Source: Nohlen

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
^ Benítez Manaut, Raúl (1990) "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas" Secuencia 17:71-92, p72

Political Handbook of the world, 1958. New York, 1959.
Eguizábal, Cristina. 1984. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984).
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.
Ruddle, Kenneth. 1972. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA.

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