2006 Nicaraguan general election

2006 Nicaraguan general election

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Presidential election

Candidate Daniel Ortega Eduardo Montealegre Party FSLN ALN Running mate Jaime Morales Fabricio Cajina Popular vote 854,316 650,879 Percentage 38.07% 29.00%   Candidate José Rizo Castellón Edmundo Jarquín Party PLC MRS Running mate José Antonio Alvarado Carlos Mejía Popular vote 588,304 144,596 Percentage 26.21% 6.44%

Results by department

President before election Enrique Bolaños PLC Elected President Daniel Ortega FSLN

Parliamentary election

90 seats in the National Assembly 46 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– FSLN Daniel Ortega 37.90 38 +1 PLC José Rizo Castellón 26.46 25 −27 ALN Eduardo Montealegre 26.66 22 New MRS Edmundo Jarquín 8.42 5 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the National Assembly before President of the National Assembly after Eduardo Goméz PLC René Nuñez FSLN

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General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was elected president with 38% of the vote, defeating Eduardo Montealegre (Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance) with 28%, José Rizo (Constitutionalist Liberal Party) with 27%, Edmundo Jarquín (Sandinista Renovation Movement) with 6%, and Edén Pastora (Alternative for Change) with 0.3%.^[1] The FSLN also emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly, winning 38 seats.