1967 Nicaraguan general election

none General elections were held in Nicaragua on February 5, 1967, to elect a president and National Congress. "Fernando Agüero led the Conservative presidential slate again in the 1967 presidential contest and was the sole nominee of the National Opposition Union (Unión Nacional Opositora – UNO) coalition. The Conservatives (then at the apogee of their popular support) and their Social Christian and Independent Liberal allies mobilized widespread popular opposition to the first presidential candidacy of National Guard head Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Although UNO lost the presidency to the Liberals the PPSC did win one seat each in the House and Senate".Booth, John A. The end and the beginning: the Nicaraguan revolution. Boulder: Westview Press. Second edition, revised and updated. 1985. Pp. 108. "In retrospect, the election of 1967 was the zenith of the Somozan political and electoral apparatus. From that time on, the younger Somoza took personal charge of everything, excluded the principal power groups of the Liberal Party, and started a gradual decline in the electoral efforts which eventually lost all pretense at being democratic at the domestic level".Bowdler, George A. and Patrick Cotter. Voter participation in Central America, 1954-1981: an exploration. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. 1982. Pp. 63. Results y Chamber Senate Anastasio Somoza Debayle Nationalist Liberal Party 380162 35 11 Fernando Agüero National Opposition Union (PCN–PLI–PSC) 157432 17 6 Alejandro Abaúnza Marenco Conservative Party 3120 1 0 Special seatsFormer vice-president as lifetime senator 0 1 53 18 Nohlen References Bibliography Booth, John A. The end and the beginning: the Nicaraguan revolution. Boulder: Westview Press. Second edition, revised and updated. 1985. Bowdler, George A. and Patrick Cotter. Voter participation in Central America, 1954-1981: an exploration. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. 1982. Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005. Gambone, Michael D. Capturing the revolution: the United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961–1972. Westport: Praeger. 2001. Leonard, Thomas M. “The quest for Central American democracy since 1945.” Assessing democracy in Latin America. 1998. Boulder: Westview Press. 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. Political handbook of the world 1968. New York, 1969. Smith, Hazel. Nicaragua: self-determination and survival. London : Pluto Press. 1993. Walker, Thomas W. The Christian Democratic movement in Nicaragua. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1970. Category:Elections in Nicaragua Nicaragua Category:1967 in Nicaragua Category:Presidential elections in Nicaragua Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results