1956 Salvadoran presidential election
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 1956. The result was a victory for José María Lemus of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, who received 95.2% of the vote.
The Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidacies of José Alberto Funes, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa and José Alvaro Díaz. It also forbade Rafael Carranza Anaya and Enrique Magaña Menéndez from withdrawing their candidacies; nevertheless, the latter two boycotted the elections.Results
