2017 Honduran general election
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.
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| Registered | 6,046,873 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 57.49% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 128 seats in the National Congress 65 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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The elections were 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 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. 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 elections, both candidates claimed victory. On 17 December, twenty-one days after the elections, 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 elections, found widespread irregularities in the conduct of the voting and doubted the validity of the official results. The OAS called for fresh elections.