1965 Honduran Constituent Assembly election

Constituent Assembly elections were held in Honduras on 12 February 1965.[1] The Constituent Assembly subsequently elected Oswaldo López Arellano as president.

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Results
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
National Party334,64655.1535+17
Liberal Party272,19844.8529–7
Total606,844100.0064+6
Valid votes606,84498.85
Invalid/blank votes7,0441.15
Total votes613,888100.00
Registered voters/turnout815,26175.30
Source: Nohlen

Aftermath

The Constituent Assembly held its first session in March and elected a new president. The opposition Liberal Party unsuccessfully attempted to block the election,[2] and some Liberal members of the Assembly, led by labor leader Céleo González, refused to participate in the vote.[3] However, Oswaldo López Arellano was elected to serve as president for a six-year term with effect from June, when the Constituent Assembly was also redesignated as a full legislative assembly.[4]

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p407 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. Thomas P. Anderson (1981) The war of the dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969, p63
  3. Thomas P. Anderson (1988) Politics in Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, [132
  4. Helen Schooley (1987) Conflict in Central America, p38

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