2013 Honduran general election

2013 Honduran general election

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Presidential election
Registered5,308,781
Turnout59.14% (Increase 9.26pp)
 
Nominee Juan Orlando Hernández Xiomara Castro
Party National Libre
Popular vote 1,149,302 896,498
Percentage 36.89% 28.78%

 
Nominee Mauricio Villeda Salvador Nasralla
Party Liberal Anti-Corruption
Popular vote 632,320 418,443
Percentage 20.30% 13.43%

Hernández:      <30%      30-40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Castro:      30-40%      40-50%      50–60%
Villeda:      <30%      30-40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Nasralla:      <30%      30-40%      40–50%

President before election

Porfirio Lobo Sosa
National

Elected President

Juan Orlando Hernández
National

Parliamentary election

All 128 seats in the National Congress
65 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
National Porfirio Lobo Sosa 33.64 48 −23
Libre Manuel Zelaya 27.51 37 New
Liberal Mauricio Villeda 16.97 27 −18
PAC Salvador Nasralla 15.15 13 New
PINU Jorge Aguilar Paredes 1.84 1 −2
UD Matías Funes 1.67 1 −3
CD Lucas Evangelisto Aguilera Pineda 1.62 1 −4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results of the congressional election
President of the Congress before President of the Congress after
Juan Orlando Hernández
National
Mauricio Oliva
National

General elections were held in Honduras on 24 November 2013.[1] Voters went to the polls to elect a new President, the 128 members of the National Congress, 298 Mayors and vice-mayors and their respective councilors and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament.

The closely watched presidential election saw a field of eight candidates vying to succeed outgoing President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who is not eligible to run for re-election. Salvador Nasralla, a sports journalist and television personality, and Xiomara Castro, the wife of the deposed president Mel Zelaya, both candidates from newly formed political parties (the Anti-Corruption Party and Libre, respectively) were leading in most of the early polls. However, as the election neared, the candidates of the two traditional parties – Juan Orlando Hernández of the National Party and Mauricio Villeda of the Liberal Party – both surged in the polls.

The elections were the first since 1954 in which a party other than the National Party and Liberal Party received over 7% of the vote and more than five seats in the legislature in a general election. It was also the first time the Liberal Party did not finish either first or second in an election since the 1920s.

  1. ^ Tribunal Supremo Electoral Honduras (9 April 2013). "Universidades de País Apoyaran al TSE para la Realización de las Elecciones Generales". TSE. Retrieved 16 April 2013.