Honduran general election, 2001

November 25, 2001



Nominee	Ricardo Maduro	Rafael Pineda Ponce
Party	National Party	Liberal Party
Popular vote	1,135,565	962,446
Percentage	52.2%	44.2%

President before election

Carlos Flores
Liberal Party

Elected President

Ricardo Maduro
National Party

General elections were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 25 November 2001.

Presidential election

Five candidates stood for election, representing the five parties with parliamentary representation. They were won by the National Party's Ricardo Maduro, who won over 50% of the vote, beating his nearest rival by 8%.

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest	National Party	1,135,565	52.2%
Rafael Pineda Ponce	Liberal Party	962,446	44.2%
Olban Valladares	Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy	31,561	1.4%
Matias Funes	Democratic Unification Party	24,075	1.1%
Marco Orlando Iriarte	Christian Democrat Party	21,056	1.0%
Total		2,174,703	100%
Source: Adam Carr's Election Archive

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Parliamentary election

The parliamentary elections were narrowly won by the National Party, who took 61 of the 128 seats.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras)	967,733	46.5%	61
Liberal Party of Honduras (Partido Liberal de Honduras )	850,290	40.8%	55
Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy (Partido de Inovación y Unidad-Social Democracia)	95,059	4.6%	4
Democratic Unification Party (Partido de Unificación Democrática)	92,818	4.5%	5
Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras)	76,886	3.7%	3
Total (turnout 66.3%)	2,082,786	100%	128
Source: Adam Carr's Election Archive

Popular vote

PNH			46.46%
PLH			40.82%
PINU-SD			4.56%
PUD			4.46%
DC			3.69%

Parliament seats

PNH			47.66%
PLH			42.97%
PUD			3.91%
PINU-SD			3.13%
DC			2.34%

Elections in Honduras

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Referendums	1870

See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America

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