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General elections were held in Nicaragua on 3 February 1957 to elect a president and National Congress.

Luis Somoza Debayle formalized his grip on the presidency through fraudulent elections in February 1957 which were boycotted by all the opposition except the puppet Conservative Nationalist Party (PNC). The Popular Social Christian Party (PPSC) was created in reaction to these elections and received support from younger Conservatives dissatisfied with their party’s inability to make any political impact on the dictatorship.^[1]

Results


Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Chamber	Senate
	Nationalist Liberal Party	Luis Somoza Debayle	316,998	89.25	28	12
	Conservative Nationalist Party	Edmundo Amador Pineda	38,180	10.75	14	4
Special seats^[a]					0	3
Total			355,178	100.00	42	19

Source: Nohlen

^ Two former presidents as life members and the defeated presidential candidate. All were members of the Conservative Party.

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References

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Martz, John D. Central America, the crisis and the challenge. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press. 1959.
Metoyer, Cynthia Chavez. Women and the state in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2000.
Millett, Richard. Guardians of the dynasty: a history of the U.S. created Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua and the Somoza Family. Maryknoll: Orbis Books. 1977.
Parker, Franklin D. The Central American republics. Westport: Greenwood Press. Reprint of 1964 original. 1981.
Political handbook of the world 1958. New York, 1959.
Tenorio, Gloria Esther and Mercedes Ríos Rocha. La participación política de las mujeres en el proceso electoral 1996. Managua: Instituto de Investigaciones Mujer y Cambio.

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Parliamentary elections	1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1927 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1938 1947 (Feb) 1947 (Aug) 1950 1957 1963 1967 1972 1974 1984 1990 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021
Municipal elections	1990 1996 2000 2004 2008 2009 2012 2017 2022
See also: Elections in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region Federal Republic of Central America

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