Honduras tribunal says partial vote recount shows same result

Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, hold a document after formally requesting to annul the results of the still-unresolved presidential election, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, early December 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' electoral tribunal said on Sunday that a partial recount of votes from the disputed presidential election showed broadly the same result as previously, giving the lead to current President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

In the partial recount of 4,753 ballot boxes, the conservative Hernandez won 50.1 percent of the votes, against some 31.5 percent for his rival Salvador Nasralla from the centre-left coalition Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship.