General Information
At Stake in this Election:
- 128 seats in the National Congress of Honduras (Congreso Nacional)
Government Structure:
- Chief of State: President Juan Orlando HERNÁNDEZ Alvarado (since 27 January 2014)
- Head of Government: President Juan Orlando HERNÁNDEZ Alvarado (since 27 January 2014)
- Assembly: The National Congress of Honduras (Congreso Nacional) is a unicameral legislature comprised of 128 deputies.
Electoral System: [1]
- The President of Honduras is elected by a simple majority vote and serves for a four-year term.*
- The National Congress of Honduras (Congreso Nacional) is a unicameral legislature consisting of 128 seats, in which representatives serve four-year terms. Deputies run for election within eighteen multi-member on closed party lists under a proportional representation system.
*The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Honduras voided single-term limits on the Office of the President in 2015. No replacement constitutional provisions concerning term limits were installed thereafter. [2]
Last Election:
- General elections were last held in Honduras on 26 November 2017.
Main Parties in this Election: [3]
- Party: Liberty and Refoundation (Libre) / Libertad y Refundación
- Leader: José Manuel ZELAYA Rosales
- Seats won in last election: 30
- Party: National Party of Honduras (PNH) / Partido Nacional de Honduras
- Leader: Juan Orlando HERNÁNDEZ Alvarado
- Seats won in last election: 61
- Party: Liberal Party of Honduras / Partido Liberal de Honduras
- Leader: Yani ROSENTHAL
- Seats won in last election: 26
- Party: Savior Party of Honduras (PSH) / Partido Salvador de Honduras
- Leader: Salvador NASRALLA
- Seats won in last election: New
- Party: Christian Democratic Party of Honduras (DC) / Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Honduras
- Leader: Lucas AGUILERA
- Seats won in last election: 1
- Party: Anti-Corruption Party (PAC) / Partido Anticorrupción de Honduras
- Leader: Marlene ALVARENGA
- Seats won in last election: 1
- Party: Honduran Patriotic Alliance / Alianza Patriótica Hondureña
- Leader: Rome VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ
- Seats won in last election: 4
- Party: Innovation and Unity Party-Social Democracy (PINU-SD) / Partido Innovación y Unidad Social Demócrata
- Leader: José León AGUILAR
- Seats won in last election: 4
- Party: Democratic Unification Party (PUD) / Partido Unificación Democrática
- Leader: Alfonso DIÁZ NARVÁEZ
- Seats won in last election: 1
Population and Registered Voters:
Gender Data:
- Female Population: 5,054,641 (2021 est.) [6]
- Is Honduras a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (signed 11 June 1980) [7]
- Has Honduras ratified CEDAW: Yes (ratified 3 March 1983) [8]
- Gender Quota: The candidate lists of the political parties must include at least 40% women candidates. Candidate lists in single-member constituencies must include a female principal candidate and a male alternate, or vice versa. A political party which fails to comply will incur a fine equal to five percent of total funding allocated to the party by the state. [9]
- Female candidates in this election: N/A
- Number of Female Legislators: 27 [10]
- Human Development Index (HDI) Position: Rank 132 at 0.634 (2020) [11]
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low [12]
[1] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/honduras/#government
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/honduran-judges-throw-out-single-term-limit-on-presidency
[3] https://resultadosgenerales2021.cne.hn/#resultados/PRE/HN
[4] https://countrymeters.info/en/Honduras
[5] https://resultadosgenerales2021.cne.hn/#resultados/PRE/HN
[6] https://countrymeters.info/en/Honduras
[7] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[8] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?Treaty=CEDAW&Lang=en
[9] https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/country-view/123/35
[10] https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas/country-view/123/35
[11] http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/HND
[12] https://www.genderindex.org/country-profiles/
[13] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN
[14] https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/Treaty.aspx?CountryID=176&Lang=EN
[15] http://www.electionaccess.org/en/resources/countries/hn/all/