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Honduras
  • Honduras
  • Republic of Honduras
  • Region: Americas

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President José Manuel ZELAYA Rosales *
  • Head of Government: President José Manuel ZELAYA Rosales
  • Assembly: Honduras has a unicameral National Congress (Congreso Nacional) with 128 seats.

* The Interim President is Roberto MICHELETTI.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by plurality vote to serve a 4-year term.
  • In the National Congress (Congreso Nacional) 128 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** There are 18 constituencies corresponding to the 18 departments. Seats are apportioned to each department in proportion to population. Where the district magnitude is one, the election is by plurality.

Population:

  • Population: 7,792,854 (July 2009 )

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010

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