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1977 Salvadoran presidential election

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Field	Value
country	El Salvador
type	Presidential
previous_election	1972 Salvadoran presidential election
previous_year	1972
next_election	1982 Salvadoran presidential election
next_year	1982
election_date	20 February 1977
image1	Carlos Humberto Romero President of the Republic of El Salvador. - NARA - 176138 (cropped).tiff
nominee1	Carlos Humberto Romero
running_mate1	Julio Ernesto Astacio
party1	National Coalition Party (El Salvador)
popular_vote1	812,281
percentage1	67.30%
image2
nominee2	Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville
running_mate2	José Antonio Morales Ehrlich
party2	National Opposition Union (El Salvador)
popular_vote2	394,661
percentage2	32.70%
title	President
before_election	Arturo Armando Molina
before_party	National Coalition Party (El Salvador)
after_election	Carlos Humberto Romero
after_party	National Coalition Party (El Salvador)

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 20 February 1977.

The result was a victory for Carlos Humberto Romero of the National Conciliation Party (PCN), who received 67.3% of the vote. However, the election was characterized by massive fraud, with officials of the National Opposition Union (UNO, an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, National Revolutionary Movement and Nationalist Democratic Union) intercepting military radio transmissions ordering ballot box stuffing, whilst their election officials were assaulted and ejected from polling stations. According to credible witnesses, in sixteen districts where an honest count was made, the UNO candidate, Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville, won around 75% of the vote.

Results

References

Bibliography

Byrne, Hugh. El Salvador's civil war: a study of revolution. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. (Excellent source of information on FMLN strategies, progression of the war, and impasse that led both sides to the peace agreement.). 1996.
Caldera T., Hilda. Historia del Partido Demócrata Cristiano de El Salvador. Tegucigalpa: Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Políticos. 1983.
Political Handbook of the world, 1977. New York, 1978.
Webre, Stephen. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979.

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
Nohlen, p289
Herman, Edward S. and Frank Brodhead (1984) ''Demonstration elections: U.S.-staged elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador'' Boston: South End Press, p102

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