1957 Nicaraguan general election

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.

Results

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Seats
					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					0	3
Total			355,178	100.00	42	19
Source: Nohlen

References

• Bulmer-Thomas, Victor (1991). "Nicaragua since 1930". In Bethell, Leslie (ed.). Central America since Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 254 ff. ISBN 978-0521423731.
• Nohlen, Dieter, ed. (2005). Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199283576.

Further reading

• Gambone, Michael D. Capturing the revolution: the United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972. Westport: Praeger. 2001.
• González, Victoria . “Somocista women, right-wing politics, and feminism in Nicaragua, 1936-1979.” Radical women in Latin America: left and right. 2001. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University. Revised edition of González 1997.
• 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.