Honduran general election, 2001

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General elections were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 25 November 2001.

1 Presidential election
- 1.1 Results
2 Parliamentary election
- 2.1 Results

[edit] Presidential election

Five candidates stood for election, representing the five parties with parliamentary representation. They were won by the National Party's Ricardo Maduro, who won over 50% of the vote, beating his nearest rival by 8%.

[edit] Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest	National Party	1,135,565	52.2%
Rafael Pineda Ponce	Liberal Party	962,446	44.2%
Olban Valladares	Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy	31,561	1.4%
Matias Funes	Democratic Unification Party	24,075	1.1%
Marco Orlando Iriarte	Christian Democrat Party	21,056	1.0%
Total		2,174,703	100%
Source: Adam Carr's Election Archive

[edit] Parliamentary election

The parliamentary elections were narrowly won by the National Party, who took 61 of the 128 seats.

[edit] Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
National Party of Honduras (Partido Nacional de Honduras)	967,733	46.5%	61
Liberal Party of Honduras (Partido Liberal de Honduras )	850,290	40.8%	55
Innovation and Unity Party-Social-Democracy (Partido de Inovación y Unidad-Social Democracia)	95,059	4.6%	4
Democratic Unification Party (Partido de Unificación Democrática)	92,818	4.5%	5
Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras)	76,886	3.7%	3
Total (turnout 66.3%)	2,082,786	100%	128
Source: Adam Carr's Election Archive