General elections were held in Honduras on 30 November 2025. Voters elected the President, all 128 members of the National Congress, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN). The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared National Party candidate Nasry Asfura as the election's winner on 24 December. The election was marred by allegations of foreign interference and a prolonged and controversial vote count that saw Asfura win over his nearest opponent, Salvador Nasralla, by a narrow margin. The National Party also won a plurality of seats in the country's National Congress, while the Liberal Party became the second largest party in the Congress at the expense of LIBRE.
Electoral system The President of Honduras is elected by a simple plurality in a single round of voting; the candidate with the most votes wins, regardless of whether they achieve an absolute majority.
The 128 members of the National Congress are elected by open list proportional representation across 18 multi-member constituencies, which correspond to the country's departments. The number of seats per constituency ranges from one to 23. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota method.
Primary elections Primary elections to select presidential, congressional, and mayoral candidates for the three major parties—LIBRE, the National Party, and the Liberal Party—were held on 9 March 2025. Eleven smaller parties selected their candidates through internal processes. A total of ten candidates contested the presidential primaries. The voting process was marred by logistical delays in the delivery of electoral materials, leading to late openings at some polling stations and triggering minor protests.
Liberal Party primary Salvador Nasralla, Vice President (2022–2024) Supported by ¡Vamos Honduras! (Let's Go Honduras!) Jorge Cálix, congressional deputy Supported by Juntos Por El Cambio (Together for Change)
Supported by Recuperar Honduras (Recover Honduras) Maribel Espinoza, congressional deputy Supported by Todos Por Honduras (All For Honduras)
Salvador Nasralla, having unsuccessfully run in 2013 and 2017, decided to join the Liberal party for a third presidential run after conflict with Libre following the 2022 Honduran political crisis and his resignation as First Vice President of Honduras on 30 April 2024.
LIBRE primary Rixi Moncada, Secretary of National Defense and former Secretary of Finance (2022–2024) Supported by the Alianza Presidencial Rixi Moncada (Rixi Moncada Presidential Alliance) , congressional deputy Supported by the Movimiento Renovación Nuevas Alternativas (MORENA) (Renewal Movement New Alternatives)
National Party primary Nasry Asfura, former Mayor of the Central District (Tegucigalpa) (2014–2022) Supported by Papi a la Orden! (Daddy at your Service!) Ana García Carías, former First Lady of Honduras (2014–2022) Supported by Avanza Por la Justicia y la Unidad (AVANZA) (Advance for Justice and Unity) Jorge Alberto Zelaya, congressional deputy Supported by Renovación Unidad Nacionalista (RUN) (Nationalist Unity Renewal) Roberto Martínez Lozano Supported by Rescate y Transformación (Rescue and Transformation)
Presidential candidates The race features five main contenders representing a broad political spectrum, from the left-wing populism of LIBRE to the right-wing conservatism of the National Party.
Teacher and lawyer Economist TV host and civil engineer Publicist and businessman BusinessmanPrevious positions:Minister of Defense (2024–2025)Minister of Finance (2022–2024)Electoral Councilor CNE (2019–2022)Manager of the ENEE (2008–2009)Minister of Labor and Social Security (2006–2008)Previous positions:Presidential advisor (2006–2009)Presidential pre-candidate M5J-LIBRE (2021 and 2017)Previous positions:Presidential designate of LIBRE (2022–2024)Presidential candidate of Alliance of the Opposition (2017)Presidential candidate of the PAC (2013)Previous positions:Owner and host of Q'Hubo TVCouncilman of the Central District for the PNH (2006–2010) Previous positions:Presidential candidate (2021)Mayor of Tegucigalpa (2014–2022)Deputy (2010–2014).Director FHIS (2010–2011)Councilman of Tegucigalpa (2006–2010).Various positions in Tegucigalpa City Hall (1990–2002) Ideology: Left-wing populism, Socialism of the 21st century Ideology: Social democracy, Progressivism, Reformism, Secularism Ideology: Liberalism Ideology: Christian democracy, Christian humanism, Conservatism, Pro-U.S.The candidate proposes to turn the Republic of Honduras into an Associated State of the United States of America Ideology: Conservatism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism 1. Eduardo Enrique Reina García2. Angélica Lizeth Álvarez Morales3. José Armando Orellana Romero1. Iris Elizabeth Vigil Zelaya2. Miguel Antonio Aragón Carrasco3. Ana Lucía Galdámez Castellanos1. Jaqueline Raudales Hernández2. Marco Tulio Medina Hernández3. Vera Sofía Rubí Ávila1. Gracia María Zelaya Macay2. Juan Carlos López Orellana3. Olga Lizeth Espinoza Pinoth1. María Antonieta Mejía Sánchez2. Carlos Alberto Flores Guifarro3. Diana Baleska Herrera Portillo Reference: CNE-RESOLUTION 75-2025 OF ACT 32-2025 Reference: CNE-RESOLUTION 71-2025 OF ACT 32-2025 Reference: CNE-RESOLUTION 73-2025 OF ACT 32-2025 Reference: CNE-RESOLUTION 72-2025 OF ACT 32-2025 Reference: CNE-RESOLUTION 74-2025 OF ACT 32-2025
Parliamentary candidates A total of 632 candidates ran for the 128 seats in the National Congress in the parliamentary elections. Of the ten parties that were evaluated, only five were approved to run in the elections: Innovation and Unity Party Christian Democratic Party of Honduras Liberal Party of Honduras National Party of Honduras Liberty and Refoundation
Campaign The official campaign began on 1 September with opposition parties leading in the polls.
Moncada, who is supported by outgoing president Xiomara Castro, called the election a choice between a "coup-plotting oligarchy", referring to the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, and democratic socialism. She also pledged to protect "natural wealth" from "21st-century filibusters who want to privatise everything" and combat corruption. Asfura pledged to bring "development and opportunities for everyone", to "facilitate foreign and domestic investment into the country", and "generate employment for all". Nasralla, for his part, based his economic plan on four pillars: democracy and the rule of law; food security and rural prosperity; social welfare; and economic welfare.
Nelson Ávila emerged as the candidate offering an alternative to the party system that has governed Honduras and put forward proposals to combat poverty and hunger with measures such as creating a fund to support entrepreneurs, as well as investing in intelligence and police training to reduce violence, a new education system focused on a culture of peace, and Central American international collaboration for common development through a transnational currency and infrastructure.
Rivera, for his part, presented measures such as promoting a referendum to integrate Honduras as a U.S. state, as well as approving the death penalty, moving from a secular state to a non-denominational state, and replicating the libertarian economic measures of Argentine president Javier Milei and the security measures of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. On 23 November, Rivera withdrew from the campaign to join Nasralla.
The campaign period was notably violent. A leading independent body monitoring violence in Honduras recorded six politically-motivated homicides, four of which targeted LIBRE candidates. In November, a five-year-old boy was killed when masked gunmen opened fire on a LIBRE campaign event.
Allegations of fraud and external interference
In late October 2025, audio recordings were released that allegedly featured conversations between members of the opposition – including a National Electoral Council (CNE) representative, Cossette López, Congressman Tomás Zambrano, and a military officer – discussing plans to "manipulate the popular vote". Zambrano, a leader of the National Party, dismissed the recordings as "completely false, fabricated... manipulated [with] artificial intelligence." In response, President Castro called for an official investigation, denouncing what she termed an "electoral coup".
In November, more than 90,000 Hondurans receiving remittances from family abroad were sent phone messages saying that if Moncada won the election, they would not receive their remittances.
Salvador Nasralla claimed U.S. President Donald Trump made statements that potentially influenced the election:
He endorsed National Party candidate Nasry Asfura, and proposed that U.S. financial aid to Honduras could be 'suspended' if Asfura did not win the election and become President. He labelled Liberal party candidate Salvador Nasralla a "borderline communist". He pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernández of the National Party, who until 2 December 2025 was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the United States for drug trafficking.
On 2 December, Cossette López, a member of the CNE from the National Party, accused Marlon Ochoa (a CNE member from LIBRE) of seeking to delay a news conference marking the resumption of the publication of the election results by sending his staff and LIBRE members to the conference venue, which López described as "intimidation". Ochoa had previously filed a complaint against López over her alleged audio recording in October.
On 10 December, the head of the Armed Forces of Honduras, Roosevelt Hernández, said the military would recognize the election results and guarantee that they would be honored. The head of the CNE, Ana Paola Hall, asked for soldiers to be deployed outside buildings where ballots are being stored.
Reporting of results On 2 December 2025, as preliminary results recorded by a partial digital count showed Nasry Asfura to be in a statistical tie with Salvador Nasralla with Asfura leading by only 515 votes, U.S. president Donald Trump alleged the election was fraudulent. The CNE began a manual count that same day. Later that afternoon, Salvador Nasralla had taken a lead of roughly 2,000 votes. Counting was marred by the CNE's official website crashing due to "technical problems" beginning the previous day. The reporting of results was paused, resumed, then paused again the next day. Rixi Moncada also criticized the vote transmission system as flawed and lacking transparency, while calling Trump's comments "a direct intervention that affects the interests of the Honduran people". On 4 December, Asfura regained a narrow lead over Nasralla. Nasralla then alleged the election was fraudulent, and that Trump's last-minute endorsement of rival candidate Asfura cost him votes he otherwise would have obtained.