1919 Salvadoran presidential election

A presidential election was held in El Salvador between 13 and 15 January 1919, when Salvadorans elected their next president to serve a four-year term from 1919 to 1923. In the election, Jorge Meléndez defeated Pío Romero Bosque and Arturo Araujo; Provisional president Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was elected as Jorge's vice president.

As the election approached, Vice President Quiñónez and Minister of Governance and Finance Tomás García Palomo were the two most likely presidential successors to Carlos Meléndez, but Carlos did not name a successor as had been done in prior elections. Both Quiñónez and Palomo sought to influence the outcome of the 1918 municipal election in order to benefit their presidential campaigns. Carlos resigned due to poor health on 21 December 1918, and Quiñónez became the provisional president. Palomo withdrew his candidacy as he did not want to run against the incumbent president, and Quiñónez also withdrew due to a constitutional restriction on him running for election.

Quiñónez installed Carlos' younger brother Jorge as the National Democratic Party's presidential candidate, but his candidacy was challenged by landowner Arturo Araujo of the Salvadoran Laborist Party (PLS). Jorge and Quiñónez had Supreme Court president Pío Romero Bosque announce his own candidacy and proceeded to rig the election so that Jorge would come in first place, Romero would come in second, and Araujo would come in third. Jorge and Quiñónez assumed office in March 1919 as president and vice president respectively and they would rule El Salvador until 1927.