Nicaragua Votes

The Elections of 2001

Bibliographic Data

ID6286863
AuthorsLeslie Anderson, Leslie Elin Anderson (0000-0002-3778-8853), Lawrence Cloyd Dodd (0000-0003-0854-6801)
Year2002
Volume13
Issue3
Pages80-94
Publication date2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2002.0037
OpenAlexW2018795169
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

In November 2001, Nicaraguans voted in their country's fourth national election since the Somoza regime was overthrown in 1979 and the third since the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990. For the third straight time, they chose a conservative candidate who espoused democratic liberties. In 2001 Nicaraguan voters had three choices for the presidency, one from each of three long-established parties. Outgoing vice-president Enrique Bola~nos, running as the Liberal Party candidate, won with 56 percent of the vote, defeating Sandinista candidate and former president Daniel Ortega, who garnered 42 percent. Coming in a distant third was the Conservative Party's Alberto Saborio, who got less than 2 percent. The observers who were present for the campaigning and voting, including former U.S. president Jimmy Carter plus Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, were as one in endorsing the process as free and fair

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