2024 Salvadoran general election
General elections will be held in El Salvador in 2024 to elect the president, 84 members of the Legislative Assembly, 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and 262 mayors. It will be the first time presidential and legislative elections occur concurrently in El Salvador since the 1994 general election. Background. General elections are scheduled to be held in El Salvador in 2024, five years after the 2019 presidential election and three years after the 2021 legislative election. Supreme court presidential reelection ruling. On 3 September 2021, the Supreme Court of El Salvador ruled that the  president of El Salvador is eligible to run for reelection consecutively, discarding a previous ruling in 2014 which stated presidents must wait ten years to be able to run for reelection. The court ruling allows incumbent president at the time, Nayib Bukele, the be eligible to run for president in 2024. Despite protests from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) accepted the supreme court's ruling. Bukele has not made any official statements regarding his potential candidacy for president in 2024, which if he wins reelection, would make  him the first person since Óscar Osorio Hernández (1950–1956) to serve over five years as president and the first person since Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1931–1934, 1935–1944) to serve multiple terms. Electoral system. The president, 84 deputies of the Legislative Assembly, 20 deputies of the Central American Parliament, and 262 mayors will all be elected through a popular vote. The Constitution of El Salvador mandates that the election will be "free, direct, equal and secret." In the presidential election, a candidate needs an absolute majority (50%+1) to be declared the winner of the election. If no candidate receives an absolute majority , a second round between the two candidates with the most valid votes will occur within thirty days of the first round. The deputies of the Legislative Assembly and the Central American Parliament are elected by an open list proportional representation, with the 84 deputies of the Legislative Assembly being elected in 14 constituencies for the 14 departments of El Salvador, and the 20 deputies of the Central American Parliament being elected from one nationwide constituency.