<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> General elections were held in Honduras on 26 November 2017 . Voters went to the polls to elect the President of Honduras to serve a four - year term, as well as 128 members of the unicameral National Congress, 20 members for the Central American Parliament and mayors for the municipalities of Honduras . </P> <P> The election was the first after the constitution of Honduras was amended to allow for a president to seek re-election, a controversial development since the mere possibility of changing the constitution to allow for re-election was a primary justification for the 2009 Honduran coup d'état . The sitting president, Juan Orlando Hernández had been the favorite going into the election, but early results showed a significant advantage for his major challenger, Salvador Nasralla . As the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) slowly announced the vote totals, Hernández gained in the vote counts amid numerous irregularities, leading to cries of electoral fraud and protests across the country . The protests escalated over the next several days as the country awaited final results, and on 1 December, Juan Orlando Hernández's government issued a ten - day curfew to try to control the protests . </P> <P> Following the election, both candidates claimed victory . On 17 December, twenty - one days after the election, Hernández was declared the winner by the TSE, which is dominated by Hernández loyalists . The Organization of American States (OAS), which conducted independent monitoring of the election, found widespread irregularities in the conduct of the voting and doubted the validity of the official results . The OAS called for a new election . </P>

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