1971 Honduran general election

none January 2024 Honduras 1949 28 March 1971 67.54% ( 6.13pp) yes Presidential election presidential 1954 Honduran general election 1954 1981 Honduran general election 1981 Ramón Ernesto Cruz National Party of Honduras 299,807 52.62% 3x4.svg Jorge Bueso Arias Liberal Party of Honduras 269,989 47.38% President Oswaldo López Arellano National Party of Honduras Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés National Party of Honduras General elections were held in Honduras on 28 March 1971.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 407. 978-0-19-928357-6 Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress. The two main parties, the National Party and Liberal Party, had agreed before the election to split the Congressional seats equally between them, with each party being awarded 32 of the 64 seats.Nohlen, p. 413. Additional one seat was to be allocated to the winner of the presidential elections as the president was entitled to one seat in parliament, while both parties were to be equally represented in the Supreme Court in all state institutions including the Government. Milutin Tomanović 1972 Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1971 The Chronicle of International Events in 1971 sh 2609 Belgrade Institute of International Politics and Economics Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés of the National Party won the presidential election with 53% of the vote. Approximately 40% out of total of around 900,000 voters abstained from voting at the elections. Some of the major topics at the elections was the issue of commitment to continued participation in the Central American Common Market and approach to the relations with El Salvador after the Football War. Results y Presidential candidate Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés National Party 299807 32 –3 Jorge Bueso Arias Liberal Party 269989 32 +3 0 38546 900658 Nohlen References Bibliography Anderson, Thomas P. The war of the dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1981. Anderson, Thomas P. Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. New York: Praeger. Revised edition. 1988. Bardales B., Rafael. Historia del Partido Nacional de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Servicopiax Editores. 1980. Becerra, Longino. Evolución histórica de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Baktun Editorial. 1983. Bertrand Anduray, María Luisa Soto de. Historia de la mujer hondureña: época independiente. Tegucigalpa: Instituto Hondureño de Cultura Hispánica. 1992. Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005. Euraque, Darío A. Reinterpreting the banana republic: region and state in Honduras, 1870-1972. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1996. Fernández, Arturo. Partidos políticos y elecciones en Honduras 1980. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras. Second edition. 1983. Haggerty, Richard and Richard Millet. “Historical setting.” Merrill, Tim L., ed. 1995. Honduras: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. 1995. Leonard, Thomas M. “The quest for Central American democracy since 1945.” Assessing democracy in Latin America. 1998. Boulder: Westview Press. 1998. Political handbook of the world 1971. New York, 1972. Posas, Mario and Rafael del Cid. La construcción del sector público y del estado nacional en Honduras (1876-1979). San José: EDUCA. Second edition. 1983. Rojas Bolaños, Manuel. “La política.” Historia general de Centroamérica. 1994. San José: FLACSO. Volume five. 1994. Sabillón Pineda de Flores, Milady. La mujer en los partidos políticos. Tegucigalpa: Alin. 1998. Sullivan, Mark P. “Government and politics.” Merrill, Tim L., ed. 1995. Honduras: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. 1995. Weaver, Frederick Stirton. Inside the volcano: the history and political economy of Central America. Boulder: Westview Press. 1994. Category:Parliamentary elections in Honduras Honduras General Category:Presidential elections in Honduras Honduras