Election Name: | 1999 Salvadoran presidential election |
Country: | El Salvador |
Type: | Presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Registered: | 3,171,224 |
Turnout: | 38.57% (13.70pp) |
Previous Election: | 1994 Salvadoran general election |
Previous Year: | 1994 |
Next Election: | 2004 Salvadoran presidential election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Election Date: | 7 March 1999 |
Image1: | 2012exPresidenteFFlores.jpg |
Nominee1: | Francisco Flores |
Running Mate1: | Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt |
Party1: | Nationalist Republican Alliance |
Popular Vote1: | 614,268 |
Percentage1: | 51.96% |
Nominee2: | Facundo Guardado |
Running Mate2: | María Marta Valladares |
Party2: | Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front |
Popular Vote2: | 343,472 |
Percentage2: | 29.05% |
President | |
Before Election: | Armando Calderón Sol |
Before Party: | Nationalist Republican Alliance |
After Election: | Francisco Flores Pérez |
After Party: | Nationalist Republican Alliance |
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.[1]