Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 18 January 2009.^[1] The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) was widely expected to win the most seats for the first time against the nationalist conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).^[2] As a result of the election, the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a left-wing party founded by FMLN dissidents in 2006 with the same name and symbols as the historic FDR from the Salvadoran Civil War, was deregistered as a political party as it failed to gain either a seat or 50,000 votes, as necessary to sustain registration.^[3] All parties contested the election in all departments, except for the FDR, which did not contest the election in three departments and stood jointly with the PDC in two others.

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2009 Salvadoran legislative election

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All 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly 43 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– FMLN Medardo González 42.60 35 +3 ARENA Rodrigo Ávila 38.55 32 −2 PCN Ciro Cruz Zepeda 8.79 11 +1 PDC Rodolfo Parker 6.94 5 −1 CD Héctor Dada Hirezi 2.12 1 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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In San Isidro in Cabañas Department, voting had to be rescheduled to 25 January 2009 after a group of non-natives illegally attempted to vote.^[4]