1999 Salvadoran presidential election

1999 Salvadoran presidential election

7 March 1999
Registered	3,171,224
Turnout	38.57% (13.70pp)
Nominee Francisco Flores Facundo Guardado Party ARENA FMLN Running mate Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt María Marta Valladares Popular vote 614,268 343,472 Percentage 51.96% 29.05%
Results by department
President before election Armando Calderón Sol ARENA Elected President Francisco Flores Pérez ARENA

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 7 March 1999. The result was a victory for Francisco Flores of the Nationalist Republican Alliance, who won in the first round with 51.96% of the vote.

Results

Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Francisco Flores Pérez	Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt	Nationalist Republican Alliance	614,268	51.96
	Facundo Guardado	María Marta Valladares	FMLN–USC	343,472	29.05
	Rubén Zamora	Roberto Meza	United Democratic Centre	88,640	7.50
	Rodolfo Parker	Donald Ricardo Calderón Lam	Christian Democratic Party	67,207	5.68
	Hernán Contreras	Julio Eduardo Moreno Niños	National Conciliation Party	45,140	3.82
	Salvador Nestor García	Mauricio Meyer	Democratic Republican League	19,269	1.63
	Francisco Ayala de Paz	Humberto Merlos Hernández	Party of the United People and the New Deal	4,252	0.36
Total				1,182,248	100.00
Valid votes				1,182,248	96.65
Invalid/blank votes				40,967	3.35
Total votes				1,223,215	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				3,171,224	38.57
Source: TSE