General elections were held in Honduras to elect the
President of Honduras, Vice-President, and deputies to the
National Congress of Honduras on 27 November 2005. For the 2005 election the constitution was amended to create a single vice-president (Hondurans previously elected three 'presidential designates' on a ticket along with the presidential candidate). For the 2005 election the system of
proportional representation was also changed from a
closed list to an
open list - the parties also used open-list
primaries to select candidate slates. The list system reduced the re-election rate of incumbents, with just 31% of deputies in the new Congress having seats in the 2002–2006 Congress.