The Social Democratic Party () is a

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party in

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

. A Social Democratic Party participated in the 1945 presidential elections, with its candidate,

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, finishing second (albeit with only 0.2% of the vote). It also participated in the 1961 Constitutional Assembly elections as part of the Union of Democratic Parties (an alliance with the

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and

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) but failed to win a seat. The party reappeared in 2000, when it formed an alliance, the United Democratic Centre, with the Democratic Convergence party for the elections that year, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p280 winning three seats. However, the party ran alone in the 2003 elections, but failed to win a seat.

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