1957 Nicaraguan general election

none General elections were held in Nicaragua on 3 February 1957 to elect a president and National Congress. Luis Somoza Debayle formalized his grip on the presidency through fraudulent elections in February 1957 which were boycotted by all the opposition except the puppet Conservative Nationalist Party (PNC). The Popular Social Christian Party (PPSC) was created in reaction to these elections and received support from younger Conservatives dissatisfied with their party’s inability to make any political impact on the dictatorship.Bulmer-Thomas (1991), pp. 254 ff Results y Chamber Senate Luis Somoza Debayle Nationalist Liberal Party 316998 28 12 Edmundo Amador Pineda Conservative Nationalist Party 38180 14 4 Special seatsTwo former presidents as life members and the defeated presidential candidate. All were members of the Conservative Party. 0 3 42 19 Nohlen Notes References Bulmer-Thomas Victor Nicaragua since 1930 Bethell, Leslie Central America since Independence 1991 Cambridge Cambridge University Press 978-0521423731 254 ff Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook Nohlen, Dieter 1 Oxford Oxford University Press 2005 978-0199283576 Further reading Gambone, Michael D. Capturing the revolution: the United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972. Westport: Praeger. 2001. González, Victoria . “Somocista women, right-wing politics, and feminism in Nicaragua, 1936-1979.” Radical women in Latin America: left and right. 2001. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University. Revised edition of González 1997. Martz, John D. Central America, the crisis and the challenge. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press. 1959. Metoyer, Cynthia Chavez. Women and the state in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2000. Millett, Richard. Guardians of the dynasty: a history of the U.S. created Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua and the Somoza Family. Maryknoll: Orbis Books. 1977. Parker, Franklin D. The Central American republics. Westport: Greenwood Press. Reprint of 1964 original. 1981. Political handbook of the world 1958. New York, 1959. Tenorio, Gloria Esther and Mercedes Ríos Rocha. La participación política de las mujeres en el proceso electoral 1996. Managua: Instituto de Investigaciones Mujer y Cambio. Category:Elections in Nicaragua Nicaragua Category:1957 in Nicaragua Category:Presidential elections in Nicaragua Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results