Daily Archives: March 19, 2009
El Salvador 2009: Final
The TSE has released final results of the Salvadoran presidential election and data by department. The TSE reports approximately 62% turnout.
Mauricio Funes/Salvador Sánchez Cerén (FMLN) 51.32%
Rodrigo Ávila/Arturo Zablah (ARENA) 48.68%
The map looks like this. Funes won only 6 departments, while Ávila won 8. However, Funes won the most populous department, San Salvador, where 830k votes were cast, with 54.53%.
On another note, Funes has stated that he looks forward to working with President Barack Obama and the United States has stated the same thing.