Honduran general election, 1997

November 30, 1997



Nominee	Carlos Roberto Flores	Nora Gúnera de Melgar	Olban Francisco Valladares Ordóñez
Party	Liberal Party	National Party	Innovation and Unity Party
Home state	Tegucigalpa	Choluteca Department
Popular vote	1,040,403	844,985	41,605
Percentage	52.65%	42.76%	2.11%

President before election

Carlos Roberto Reina
Liberal Party

Elected President

Carlos Roberto Flores
Liberal Party

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General elections were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 30 November 1997. These were the first elections in Honduras to have separate ballots for the presidency, congress and local elections allowing split-ticket voting. They were also the first elections in which the left wing Democratic Unification Party was allowed to stand.

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]

Presidential election results^[3]

Candidate	Party/Alliance	Votes	%
Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé	Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH)	1,040,403	52.65%
Nora Gúnera de Melgar	National Party of Honduras (PNH)	844,985	42.76%
Olban Francisco Valladares Ordóñez	Innovation and Unity Party - Social Democrats (PINU-SD)	41,605	02.11%
Arturo Alvarez	Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (PDCH)	24,737	01.25%
Matias Funes Valladares	Democratic Unification Party (PUD)	24,243	01.23%
Total valid votes		1,975,973	100%
Spoilt and invalid votes		120,673	05.76%
Total votes/Turnout		2,096,646	72.70%
Registered voters		2,883,919
Population		6,338,000

Legislative election ^[4]

Parties and alliances	Votes/districts	%	Seats
Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH)	1,040,403	52.65%	67
National Party of Honduras (PNH)	844,985	42.76%	55
Innovation and Unity Party - Social Democrats (PINU-SD)	41,605	02.11%	3
Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (PDCH)	24,737	01.25%	2
Democratic Unification Party (PUD)	24,243	01.23%	1
Total valid votes	1,975,973	100%	128
Spoilt and invalid votes	120,673	05.76%
Total votes/Turnout	2,096,646	72.70%
Registered voters	2,883,919
Population	6,338,000

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%

References

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

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Referendums	1870

See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America

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