1977 Salvadoran presidential election

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1977 Salvadoran presidential election
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Nominee Carlos Humberto Romero Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville
Party PCN UNO
Popular vote 812,281 394,661
Percentage 67.30% 32.70%
President before election

Arturo Armando Molina
PCN

Elected President

Carlos Humberto Romero
PCN

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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 20 February 1977.[1]

The result was a victory for Carlos Humberto Romero of the Party of National Conciliation, who received 67.3% of the vote. However, the election was characterised by massive fraud,[2] with officials of the National Opposing Union (UNO, an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, and ) intercepting military radio transmissions ordering ballot box stuffing, whilst their election officials were assaulted and ejected from polling stations.[3] 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.[3]

Results[]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Carlos Humberto RomeroNational Conciliation Party812,28167.30
Ernesto Antonio Claramount RosevilleNational Opposing Union394,66132.70
Total1,206,942100.00
Source: Nohlen

References[]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ^ Nohlen, p289
  3. ^ a b 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

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.
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