Mauricio Funes wins presidential election with 51.32%

Mauricio Funes, the FMLN candidate, won the presidential elections on March 15, 2009 with 51.32% of the vote, over the rival candidate from ARENA, Rodrigo Avila. The results from the election are below:

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To see the results from each department, click here.
To see the results from each municipality, click here.

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Salvadorans denounce political violence and defamation from the election campaigns

La Prensa Grafica released the findings from a poll on Salvadoran opinions of the electoral campaign. Surprisingly, most Salvadorans felt good about the electoral campaign, with two principle complaints: violence between different party activists and the public defamation messages. People associate violence in the street more with the FMLN and defamation – the dirty campaign [...]