2017 Honduran general election

2017 Honduran general election

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Registered6,046,873
Presidential election
Turnout57.49%
 
Nominee Juan Orlando Hernández Salvador Nasralla Luis Zelaya
Party National LibrePINU Liberal
Running mate Ricardo Álvarez Arias Xiomara Castro Yadira Bendaña
Popular vote 1,410,888 1,360,442 484,187
Percentage 42.95% 41.42% 14.74%

Hernández:      <40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Nasralla:      <40%      40-50%      50–60%      60–70%
Zelaya:      <40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

President before election

Juan Orlando Hernández
National

Elected President

Juan Orlando Hernández
National

Parliamentary election

All 128 seats in the National Congress
65 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/–
National Reinaldo Sánchez Rivera 61 +13
Libre Manuel Zelaya 30 −7
Liberal Luis Zelaya 26 −1
PINU Guillermo Enrique Valle Marichal 4 +1
APH Romeo Vásquez Velásquez 4 +4
UD Alfonso Díaz Narváez 1 +1
CD Augusto Cruz Ascensio 1 +1
PAC Marlene Alvarenga 1 −12
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the congressional election
President of the Congress before President of the Congress after
Mauricio Oliva
National
Mauricio Oliva
National

General elections were held in Honduras on 26 November 2017. Voters went to the polls to elect the President of Honduras to serve a four-year term, as well as 128 members of the unicameral National Congress, 20 members for the Central American Parliament and mayors for the municipalities of Honduras.

The elections were the first after the constitution of Honduras was amended to allow for a president to seek re-election,[1] a controversial development since the mere possibility of changing the constitution to allow for re-election was a primary justification for the 2009 Honduran coup d'état. The sitting president, Juan Orlando Hernández had been the favorite going into the elections, but early results showed a significant advantage for his major challenger, Salvador Nasralla. As the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) slowly announced the vote totals, Hernández gained in the vote counts amid numerous irregularities, leading to cries of electoral fraud and protests across the country.[2] The protests escalated over the next several days as the country awaited final results, and on 1 December, Juan Orlando Hernández's government issued a ten-day curfew to try to control the protests.[3]

Following the elections, both candidates claimed victory.[4] On 17 December, twenty-one days after the elections, Hernández was declared the winner by the TSE, which is dominated by Hernández loyalists.[5][6] The Organization of American States (OAS), which conducted independent monitoring of the elections, found widespread irregularities in the conduct of the voting and doubted the validity of the official results. The OAS called for fresh elections.[6]

  1. ^ Bow, Juan Carlos (24 April 2015). "Honduras modifica su Constitución para permitir la reelección". El País. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Honduras election: Opposition candidate Nasralla rejects poll count". BBC. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference toque was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Kate Linthicum, Protesters take to the streets amid calls for a new election in Honduras, Los Angeles Times (December 18, 2017).
  5. ^ "El TSE declara a Juan Orlando Hernández ganador de las elecciones 2017". Laprensa.hn. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b Elisabeth Malkin, Honduran President Declared Winner, but O.A.S. Calls for New Election, New York Times (December 17, 2017).

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