Presidential elections were held in El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

 on 25 March 1984, with a second round on 6 May. The Salvadoran people elected a new president, together with a vice-president, for a five-year term. The result was a victory for José Napoleón Duarte

José Napoleón Duarte

José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes was a Salvadoran political figure who, from March 3, 1980, to 1982, led the civil-military Revolutionary Government Junta that took power in a 1979 coup d'état...

 of the Christian Democratic Party

Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador)

The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in El Salvador.In the legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 7.3% of the popular vote and 5 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In the presidential election of 21 March 2004, the PDC supported Héctor Silva Argüello...

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The elections took place against the backdrop of the Salvadoran Civil War, but were considered to be the freest and fairest presidential election since 1931

Salvadoran general election, 1931

General elections were held in El Salvador on 11 and 13 January 1931. Arturo Araujo won the presidential elections running on a Salvadoran Labor Party-National Republican Party ticket.-Background:...

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Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
José Napoleón Duarte José Napoleón Duarte José Napoleón Duarte Fuentes was a Salvadoran political figure who, from March 3, 1980, to 1982, led the civil-military Revolutionary Government Junta that took power in a 1979 coup d'état...	Christian Democratic Party Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador) The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in El Salvador.In the legislative elections, held on 16 March 2003, the party won 7.3% of the popular vote and 5 out of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly. In the presidential election of 21 March 2004, the PDC supported Héctor Silva Argüello...	549,727	43.41	752,625	53.59
Roberto D'Aubuisson Roberto D'Aubuisson Major Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta was the Salvadoran Army officer and political leader who founded the Nationalist Republican Alliance , which he led from 1980 to 1985...	Nationalist Republican Alliance Nationalist Republican Alliance The Nationalist Republican Alliance is a conservative political party in El Salvador. It was founded on September 30, 1981, by Roberto D'Aubuisson, in order to oppose the reformist military junta that was ruling El Salvador at the time...	376,917	29.77	651,741	46.41
José Francisco Guerrero	Party of National Conciliation Party of National Conciliation The Party of National Conciliation is a conservative political party in El Salvador. It was the most powerful political party in the country during the 1960s and 1970s, and was closely associated with the Salvadoran military. Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, a candidate of the National...	244,556	19.31
René Fortin Magaña	Democratic Action	43,939	3.47
Francisco Quiñones Avila	Popular Salvadoran Party	24,395	1.92
Roberto Escobar García	Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party	15,430	1.22
Juan Ramón Rosales	Stable Republican Centrist Movement	6,645	0.52
Gilberto Trujillo	Popular Orientation Party	4,677	0.37
Invalid/blank votes		153,217
119,713
Total		1,419,503	100	1,524,079	100
Source: Nohlen