Presidential elections were held in
El Salvador on 20 February 1977.
[ Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 ]
The result was a victory for
Carlos Humberto Romero
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Early l ...
of the
Party of National Conciliation
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, who received 67.3% of the vote. However, the election was characterised by massive fraud,
[Nohlen, p289] with officials of the National Opposing Union (UNO, an alliance of the
Christian Democratic Party
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,
National Revolutionary Movement
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and
Nationalist Democratic Union
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) intercepting military radio transmissions ordering ballot box stuffing, whilst their election officials were assaulted and ejected from polling stations.
[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] According to credible witnesses, in sixteen districts where an honest count was made, the UNO candidate,
Ernesto Antonio Claramount Roseville Ernesto Antonio Claramount Rozeville (1924–2008''El diario de hoy'/ref>) was a militant and politician in El Salvador.
Life
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, won around 75% of the vote.
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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.
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