Rank-order rules

Electoral law. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Article 141.
A fifty percent (50%) balance between women and men must be ensured in the final lists of those elected in the elections for deputies to the National Assembly, the Central American Parliament, members of autonomous regional councils, and municipal councilors.

To ensure the principle of gender equality and practice, the total number of tickets or seats to be elected in each national or regional election shall be used as the basis for making the necessary adjustments. When necessary, the Supreme Electoral Council will require each political party or alliance of political parties to reverse the male-female, female-male order in the elected formulas necessary to ensure the gender equality and practice mandated by law.