Jump to content

2001 Honduran general election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2001 Honduran general election

← 1997 25 November 2001 2005 →
Presidential election
Turnout66.27% (Decrease 6.43pp)
 
Liberal
Nominee Ricardo Maduro Rafael Pineda Ponce
Party National Liberal
Popular vote 1,137,734 964,590
Percentage 52.21% 44.26%

Maduro:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Ponce:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

President before election

Carlos Flores
Liberal

Elected President

Ricardo Maduro
National

General elections were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 25 November 2001.[1] Ricardo Maduro of the National Party was elected president with over 50% of the vote, while the National Party emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 61 of the 128 seats.

Closed list PR used to elect Congress.

Results

[edit]

President

[edit]
CandidatePartyVotes%
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro JoestNational Party1,137,73452.21
Rafael Pineda PonceLiberal Party964,59044.26
Olban ValladaresInnovation and Unity Party–Social-Democracy31,6661.45
Matias FunesDemocratic Unification Party24,1021.11
Marco Orlando IriarteChristian Democratic Party21,0890.97
Total2,179,181100.00
Valid votes2,179,18195.37
Invalid/blank votes105,8864.63
Total votes2,285,067100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,448,28066.27
Source: Nohlen

National Congress

[edit]
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Party967,73346.4661+6
Liberal Party850,29040.8255–17
Innovation and Unity Party–Social Democracy95,0594.564+1
Democratic Unification Party92,8184.465+4
Christian Democratic Party76,8863.693+1
Total2,082,786100.00128–5
Valid votes2,082,78691.38
Invalid/blank votes196,5808.62
Total votes2,279,366100.00
Registered voters/turnout3,437,45466.31
Source: Nohlen

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p407 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6