1977 Salvadoran presidential election

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

1977 Salvadoran presidential election
20 February 1977
 
Nominee Carlos Humberto Romero Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville
Party PCN UNO
Running mate Julio Ernesto Astacio
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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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, 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.[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. 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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