Honduran general election, 1997

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Honduran general election, 1997
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Nominee Carlos Roberto Flores Nora Gúnera de Melgar Olban Francisco Valladares Ordóñez
Party Liberal National Innovation and Unity Party
Home state Tegucigalpa Choluteca Department
Popular vote1,040,403 844,985 41,605
Percentage52.65% 42.76% 2.11%
President before election

Carlos Roberto Reina
Liberal

Elected President

Carlos Roberto Flores
Liberal

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General elections (Spanish : Elecciones generales de Honduras de 1997) were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 30 November 1997. They were also the first elections in which the left wing Democratic Unification Party was allowed to stand.

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Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. In the past, it was sometimes referred to as "Spanish Honduras" to differentiate it from British Honduras, which later became modern-day Belize. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

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Presidential election

Five candidates stood in the election which was won by the Liberal Party's Carlos Roberto Flores defeating Nora Gúnera de Melgar who was the first woman to stand for the Presidency. [1] Major campaign issues were crime and rising living standards. [2]

Liberal Party of Honduras political party

The Liberal Party of Honduras is a centre-right liberal political party in Honduras that was founded in 1891. The party is a member of the Liberal International. The PLH is identified with the color red and white, as the flag Francisco Morazan used in most of his military campaigns during time of the Central American Federal Republic.

Carlos Roberto Flores Honduran statesman; President of Honduras

Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé was President of Honduras from 27 January 1998 to 27 January 2002 and President of the National Congress from 25 January 1994 to 25 January 1998.

Alba Nora Gúnera Osorio is a Honduran politician and wife of General Juan Alberto Melgar, the Honduran military Head of State from 1975 to 1978. After being elected mayor of Tegucigalpa, she ran for presidency for the National Party in 1997 elections, but lost to Liberal Party nominee Carlos Roberto Flores. She served as the 6th Vice-President of the National Congress of Honduras during the 2010-2014 legislature.

Presidential election results [3]

CandidateParty/AllianceVotes%
Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH)1,040,40352.65%
Nora Gúnera de Melgar National Party of Honduras (PNH)844,98542.76%
Olban Francisco Valladares Ordóñez Innovation and Unity Party - Social Democrats (PINU-SD)41,60502.11%
Arturo Alvarez Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (PDCH)24,73701.25%
Matias Funes Valladares Democratic Unification Party (PUD)24,24301.23%
Total valid votes1,975,973100%
Spoilt and invalid votes120,67305.76%
Total votes/Turnout2,096,64672.70%
Registered voters2,883,919
Population6,338,000

Legislative election [4]

Parties and alliancesVotes/districts%Seats
Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH)1,040,40352.65%67
National Party of Honduras (PNH)844,98542.76%55
Innovation and Unity Party - Social Democrats (PINU-SD)41,60502.11%3
Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (PDCH)24,73701.25%2
Democratic Unification Party (PUD)24,24301.23%1
Total valid votes1,975,973100%128
Spoilt and invalid votes120,67305.76%
Total votes/Turnout2,096,64672.70%
Registered voters2,883,919
Population6,338,000
Popular vote
PLH
 
52.65%
PNH
 
42.76%
PINU-SD
 
2.11%
DC
 
1.25%
PUD
 
1.23%
Parliament seats
PLH
 
52.34%
PNH
 
42.97%
PINU-SD
 
2.34%
DC
 
1.56%
PUD
 
0.78%

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References

  1. ↑ Political Parties
  2. ↑ Honduras
  3. ↑ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.417.
  4. ↑ Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.412.

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