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Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Porfirio LOBO Sosa
- Head of Government: President Porfirio LOBO Sosa
- Assembly: Honduras has a unicameral National Congress (Congreso Nacional) with 128 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- The President is elected by plurality vote to serve a 4-year term.
- In the National Congress (Congreso Nacional) 128 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***
*** There are 18 constituencies corresponding to the 18 departments. Seats are apportioned to each department in proportion to population. Where the district magnitude is one, the election is by plurality.
Population:
- Population: 8,296,693 (July 2012 )
Future elections
- Presidential - November 2017
- Legislative - November 2017
- Presidential - November 24, 2013
- Legislative - November 24, 2013
Past elections
- Legislative - November 29, 2009
- Presidential - November 29, 2009
- Presidential - November 27, 2005
- Legislative - November 27, 2005
- Presidential - November 25, 2001
- Legislative - November 25, 2001
Last Updated on 06/19/2012
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