Honduran general election, 2017

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Registered

6,046,873

Turnout

3,476,419 (57.49%)


Nominee	Juan Orlando Hernández	Salvador Nasralla	Luis Orlando Zelaya
Party	National	Libre-PINU	Liberal
Running mate	Ricardo Álvarez Arias	Xiomara Castro
Popular vote	1,410,888	1,360,442	484,187
Percentage	42.95%	41.42%	14.74%

President before election

Juan Orlando Hernández
National

Elected President

Juan Orlando Hernández
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 election was the first after the constitution of Honduras was amended to allow for a president to seek re-election, 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 election, 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. 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.

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

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