President of Nicaragua

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**Summary of the 4 November 2001 Nicaragua presidential election results**
Candidates - Parties	Votes	%
Enrique Bolaños Geyer - Constitutional Liberal Party		56.3
José Daniel Ortega Saavedra - Sandinista National Liberation Front		42.3
Alberto Saborío - Conservative Party of Nicaragua		1.4
Total (turnout %)		100.0
Source: Consejo Supremo Electoral

From	To	President
1854	1855	Fruto Chamorro
1855		José María Estrada
1855	1857	Patricio Rivas
1856	1857	William Walker (in opposition)
1857	1867	Tomás Martínez
1867	1871	Fernando Guzmán
1871	1875	Vicente Cuadra
1875	1879	Pedro Joaquín Chamorro
1879	1883	Joaquín Zavala
1883	1887	Adán Cárdenas
1887	1889	Evaristo Carazo
1889		Nicolás Osorno
1889	1891	Roberto Sacasa
1891		Ignacio Chávez
1891	1893	Roberto Sacasa
1893		Salvador Machado
1893		Joaquín Zavala
1893	1909	José Santos Zelaya
1909	1910	José Madriz
1910		José Dolores Estrada
1910		Luis Mena
1910	1911	Juan José Estrada
1911	1917	Adolfo Díaz
1917	1921	Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
1921	1923	Diego Manuel Chamorro Bolaños
1923		Rosendo Chamorro
1923	1925	Bartolomé Martínez
1925	1926	Carlos José Solórzano
1926		Emiliano Chamorro Vargas
1926		Sebastián Uriza
1926	1929	Adolfo Díaz
1929	1933	José María Moncada Tapia
1933	1936	Juan Bautista Sacasa
1936		Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa
1936	1937	Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín
1937	1947	Anastasio Somoza García
1947		Leonardo Argüello
1947		Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa
1947	1950	Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes
1950		Manuel Fernando Zurita
1950	1956	Anastasio Somoza García
1956	1963	Luis Somoza Debayle
1963	1966	René Schick Gutiérrez
1966		Orlando Montenegro Medrano
1966	1967	Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez
1967	1972	Anastasio Somoza Debayle
1972	1974	Liberal-Conservative Junta
1974	1979	Anastasio Somoza Debayle
1979		Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños
1979	1985	Junta of National Reconstruction
1985	1990	Daniel Ortega Saavedra
1990	1997	Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
1997	2002	Arnoldo Alemán
2002	incumbent	Enrique Bolaños