Party (PSN) - 1.31% Isidro Téllez, Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement (MAP-ML) - 1.03% The pro-Sandinista magazine, Envio claimed that this election was considered to have the "most freedom of choice" in the nation's history and was approved by international advocates of free elections. 1990 The historical election of 1990 took place on February 25. The total registered voters were 1,752,088 and the abstentions 241,250 or 13.7%. The United Nicaraguan Opposition coalition of those who opposed the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front was victorious, winning 55% of the vote. Violeta Chamorro became president. The national averages of valid votes for president were: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, National Opposition Union (UNO) - 777,552 votes - 54.73% Daniel Ortega, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) - 579,886 votes - 40.82% Other - 63,106 - 4.45% 1996 In presidential elections, Arnoldo Alemán of the Liberal Alliance-Liberal Constitutionalist Party defeated Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. A record number of 24 parties and alliances participated in these elections. Arnoldo Alemán, Liberal Alliance - 51.03% Daniel Ortega, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) - 37.75% Guillermo Osorno, Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (CCN) - 4.10% Noel Vidaurre, Nicaraguan Conservative Party (PCN) - 2.26% Other (20 other candidates with less than 1% of the votes) - 4.86% 2001 2006 2011 2016 Parliamentary election results 1984-2016 1984 The 1984 parliamentary election was held together with the presidential election on November 4. The percentages for National Assembly representatives were very similar to those the parties had received for their presidential candidate. The electoral quotient needed to win one of the 90 National Assembly seats was obtained by dividing the number of valid votes in each region by the number of representatives that had been assigned to each region, proportional to its population. Each party's "left over" votes—those insufficient to earn it a seat in a given region—were then added together and re-tallied nationally. The seats earned in this second count went to the next candidate on the party's slate in the regions where it had come closest to winning on the first round. In addition, any party getting at least 1% of the presidential vote (which all six losing parties did) was allowed a seat for its defeated presidential candidate. The final composition of the National Assembly was thus: Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) - 61 seats Democratic Conservative Party (PCD) - 14 seats Independent Liberal Party (PLI)