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1971 Honduran general election

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Field	Value
country	Honduras
flag_year	1949
election_date	28 March 1971
turnout	67.54% ( 6.13pp)
module	{{Infobox election
embed	yes
election_name	Presidential election
type	presidential
previous_election	1954 Honduran general election
previous_year	1954
next_election	1981 Honduran general election
next_year	1981
image1	Ramon Ernesto Cruz Ucles.jpg
nominee1	Ramón Ernesto Cruz
party1	National Party of Honduras
popular_vote1	299,807
percentage1	52.62%
image2	3x4.svg
nominee2	Jorge Bueso Arias
party2	Liberal Party of Honduras
popular_vote2	269,989
percentage2	47.38%
title	President
before_election	Oswaldo López Arellano
before_party	National Party of Honduras
after_election	Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés
after_party	National Party of Honduras

General elections were held in Honduras on 28 March 1971. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress. The two main parties, the National Party and Liberal Party, had agreed before the election to split the Congressional seats equally between them, with each party being awarded 32 of the 64 seats. Additional one seat was to be allocated to the winner of the presidential elections as the president was entitled to one seat in parliament, while both parties were to be equally represented in the Supreme Court in all state institutions including the Government. Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés of the National Party won the presidential election with 53% of the vote. Approximately 40% out of total of around 900,000 voters abstained from voting at the elections. Some of the major topics at the elections was the issue of commitment to continued participation in the Central American Common Market and approach to the relations with El Salvador after the Football War.

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Bibliography

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Bardales B., Rafael. Historia del Partido Nacional de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Servicopiax Editores. 1980.
Becerra, Longino. Evolución histórica de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Baktun Editorial. 1983.
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Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
Euraque, Darío A. Reinterpreting the banana republic: region and state in Honduras, 1870-1972. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1996.
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Haggerty, Richard and Richard Millet. “Historical setting.” Merrill, Tim L., ed. 1995. Honduras: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. 1995.
Leonard, Thomas M. “The quest for Central American democracy since 1945.” Assessing democracy in Latin America. 1998. Boulder: Westview Press. 1998.
Political handbook of the world 1971. New York, 1972.
Posas, Mario and Rafael del Cid. La construcción del sector público y del estado nacional en Honduras (1876-1979). San José: EDUCA. Second edition. 1983.
Rojas Bolaños, Manuel. “La política.” Historia general de Centroamérica. 1994. San José: FLACSO. Volume five. 1994.
Sabillón Pineda de Flores, Milady. La mujer en los partidos políticos. Tegucigalpa: Alin. 1998.
Sullivan, Mark P. “Government and politics.” Merrill, Tim L., ed. 1995. Honduras: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. 1995.
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References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook'', Volume I, p. 407. {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
Nohlen, p. 413.
(1972). "Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1971". [[Institute of International Politics and Economics]].

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