Leaders of Honduras
(Republic of Honduras)
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Parties: DC: Christian Democratic Party of Honduras - LIBRE: Liberty and Refoundation - PAC: Anti-Corruption Party - PINU: Innovation and Unity Party-Social Democracy - PLH: Honduran Liberal Party - PNH: Honduran National Party - PNR: National Reformist Party - PSH: Savior Party of Honduras - UD: Democratic Unification


Heads of State
Presidents of the Republic
Tiburcio Carías Andino            1 Feb 1933 -  1 Jan 1949 (†1969) PNH
Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón          1 Jan 1949 -  5 Dec 1954 (†1955) PNH

Head of State
Julio Lozano Díaz                 5 Dec 1954 - 21 Oct 1956 (†1957) PNH

Military Council of Government
-Héctor Caraccioli Moncada                                 (†1975) military
-Roberto Gálvez Barnes                                     (†1996) military (to 18 Nov 1957) 
-Roque Jacinto Rodríguez Herrera                           (†1981) military (to 5 Jul 1957)      
-Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano  21 Oct 1956 - 21 Dec 1957 (†2010) military (since 18 Nov 1957)

Presidents of the Republic
José Ramón Villeda Morales       21 Dec 1957 -  3 Oct 1963 (†1971) PLH
Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano    3 Oct 1963 -  7 Jun 1971 (†2010) military/PNH (1)
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés          7 Jun 1971 -  4 Dec 1972 (†1985) PNH

Heads of State
Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano    4 Dec 1972 - 22 Apr 1975 (†2010) military
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro       22 Apr 1975 -  7 Aug 1978 (†1987) military

Head of the Military Junta of Government
Policarpo Juan Paz García         7 Aug 1978 - 25 Jul 1980 (†2000) military 

Presidents of the Republic
Policarpo Juan Paz García        25 Jul 1980 - 27 Jan 1982 (†2000) military (provisional) 
Roberto Suazo Córdova            27 Jan 1982 - 27 Jan 1986 (†2018) PLH
José Simón Azcona Hoyo           27 Jan 1986 - 27 Jan 1990 (†2005) PLH
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero  27 Jan 1990 - 27 Jan 1994 (†2020) PNH
Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez    27 Jan 1994 - 27 Jan 1998 (†2003) PLH
Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé    27 Jan 1998 - 27 Jan 2002         PLH
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest     27 Jan 2002 - 27 Jan 2006         PNH
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales       27 Jan 2006 - 28 Jun 2009         PLH (2)
Roberto Micheletti Baín          28 Jun 2009 - 27 Jan 2010         PLH (2)
Porfirio Lobo Sosa               27 Jan 2010 - 27 Jan 2014         PNH
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado  27 Jan 2014 - 27 Jan 2022         PNH
Xiomara Castro de Zelaya         27 Jan 2022 -                     LIBRE

(1) Chief of the Military Government to 6 Jun 1965; formally a civilian president since then.

(2) On 28 Jun 2009 a military coup toppled Zelaya and forced him to exile. In the same day, the Congress elected his president, Roberto Micheletti Baín (PLH), as new president of Republic. Micheletti's de facto Government was not recognized by the international community.


1st Vice Presidents of the Republic/Presidential Designates
Abraham Williams Calderón         1933-1949 (†1986) PNH, military
Julio Lozano Díaz                 1949-1954 (†1957) PNH
José Mejía Arellano               1957-1963 (†1977) PLH
Ricardo Zúñiga Augustinus         1965-1971 (†1987) PNH
René Bendaña Meza                 1971-1972         PNH
Marcelino Ponce Martínez          1982-1986 (†2003) PLH
Alfredo Fortín Ynestroza          1986-1990         PLH
Jacobo Hernández Cruz             1990-1994         PNH
Walter López Reyes                1994-1998         military
William Handal Raudales           1998-2002         PLH
Vicente Williams Agasse           2002-2006         PNH
Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez      2006-2008         PLH
Arístides Mejía Carranza          2008-2009         PLH
María Antonieta Guillén Vásquez   2010-2014         PNH
Ricardo Antonio Alvarez Arias     2014-2022         PNH
Salvador Alejandro Nasralla Salum 2022-             PSH

Presidential candidates
    
1948 1st Juan Manuel Gálvez Durón        (†1955) PNH
     2nd José Ángel Zúñiga Huete         (†1953) PLH

1957 1st José Ramón Villeda Morales      (†1971) PLH
     2nd Tiburcio Carías Andino          (†1969) PNH
     3rd Abraham Williams Calderón       (†1986) PNR

1971 1st Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés        (†1985) PNH
     2nd Jorge Bueso Arias                       PLH

1981 1st Roberto Suazo Córdova           (†2018) PLH
     2nd Ricardo Zúñiga Augustinus       (†1987) PNH
     3rd Miguel Andonie Fernández        (†2013) PINU
     4th Hernán Corrales Padilla         (†1999) DC

1985 1st José Simón Azcona Hoyo          (†2005) PLH
     2nd Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero (†2020) PNH
     3rd Hernán Corrales Padilla         (†1999) DC
     4th Antonio Aguilar Cerrato                 PINU

1989 1st Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero (†2020) PNH
     2nd Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé           PLH	
     3rd Antonio Aguilar Cerrato                 PINU
     4th Efraín Díaz Arrivillaga                 DC

1993 1st Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez   (†2003) PLH
     2nd José Oswaldo Ramos Soto                 PNH
     3rd Olban Francisco Valladares Ordoñez      PINU
     4th Marco Orlando Iriarte           (†2006) DC      

1997 1st Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé           PLH
     2nd Alba Nora Gúnera de Melgar      (†2021) PNH
     3rd Olban Francisco Valladares Ordoñez      PINU
     4th Arturo Gerardo Corrales Álvarez         DC
     5th Matías Fúnez Valladares                 UD

2001 1st Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest            PNH
     2nd Rafael Pineda Ponce             (†2014) PLH
     3rd Olban Francisco Valladares Ordoñez      PINU
     4th Matías Fúnez Valladares                 UD
     5th Marco Orlando Iriarte           (†2006) DC   

2005 1st José Manuel Zelaya Rosales              PLH
     2nd Porfirio Lobo Sosa                      PNH
     3rd Juan Ángel Almendares Bonilla           UD
     4th Juan Ramón Martínez                     DC
     5th Carlos Sosa Coello                      PINU

2009 1st Porfirio Lobo Sosa                      PNH
     2nd Elvin Ernesto Santos Ordóñez            PLH
     3rd Bernard Martínez Valerio                PINU
     4th Felicito Ávila Ordóñez                  DC
     5th César David Adolfo Ham Peña             UD

2013 1st Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado         PNH
     2nd Xiomara Castro de Zelaya                LIBRE
     3rd Mauricio Villeda Bermúdez               PLH 
     4th Salvador Alejandro Nasralla Salum       PAC

2017 1st Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado         PNH
     2nd Salvador Alejandro Nasralla Salum       n/p
     3rd Luis Orlando Zelaya Medrano             PLH

2021 1st Xiomara Castro de Zelaya                LIBRE
     2nd Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah                PNH
     3rd Yani Benjamín Rosenthal Hildago         PLH

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