Elections in Honduras

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Electoral process in Honduras is made by means of the coordinacion of Supreme Electoral Tribunal, it is the organism in char of organize on march during the third year of each government the primary elections where are elect the presidential candidates of each party and a year despues the general elections.

General elections, are made during the fourth year of mandate of the current government and some months before finalising his charge, where the candidates of each party compete by the presidency and is known the next president of Honduras, during the general elections ademas are elect that Honduran citizens the deputies for the national congress and to the Parlacen.

Honduras present is elected for a 4 years term if obtain a mayor number of votes during the general elections.

Honduras National Congresss has 128 members (diputados), chosen for a 4 years term.

Honduras elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The President of Honduras is elected for a four-year term by the people by a simple majority of valid votes (nulls and blanks excluded). The unicameral National Congress (Congreso Nacional) has 128 members (diputados), elected for four-year term by proportional representation to represent the country's various departments. Honduras' presidential elections are held on the last Sunday of November of the election year.

Honduras has Multi-party system, but used to have a two-party system, which means that there were two dominant political parties: the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH) and the National Party of Honduras (PNH). Ahead of the 2013 general election various new parties emerged as contenders for power and influence. Elections in Honduras gives information on elections and election results in Honduras.

Primary elections of Honduras

Primary elections in Honduras, are mechanisms by means of which the political parties of the country choose to his presidential candidates, make during the third year of government of the current government. These are not compulsory neither paid by the state The Electoral High court of Honduras is the regulatory body of this process, the National Register of the People is an organism of support that gives legitimacy to the electoral process.

General elections of Honduras

General elections of Honduras, during the fourth year of the on duty government, some months before finalising his mandate and a year despues to having made the primary elections where choose the presidential candidates of each party politocos. In them they renewed the headlines of the charges of popular election of the Republic of Honduras.

Schedule

Election

Inauguration

Recent elections

2012 Presidential and parliamentary elections

2009 Presidential and parliamentary elections

Disputed in the wake of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis

2005 Presidential election

2005 Parliamentary election

Past elections

Elections in Honduras
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Parliamentary elections	1838 1847 1848 1856 1860 1864 1866 1869 1875 1877 1880 1883 1887 1894 1894 1898 1902 1908 1911 1916 1919 1922 1923 1924 1926 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1942 1948 1954 1956 1957 1963 1965 1971 1980 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013
Referendums	1870
See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America

See also

• Politics of Honduras
• Honduras
• Primary elections in Honduras
• General elections in Honduras – Presidential
• Legal history in Honduras
• Government of Honduras
• Supreme Court of Honduras
• National Congress of Honduras
• Constitution of Honduras
• Public Prosecutor's Office (Honduras)
• President of Honduras

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive for Honduras
• Panorama Presidencial on NuevaMayoria.com (in Spanish)

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