High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A general election was held in Nicaragua on 4 November 1984, to elect a president and parliament. Approximately 1.2 million Nicaraguans voted, representing a 75% turnout, with 94% of eligible voters registered. The elections were generally held to be free and fair. A Latin American Studies Association (LASA) delegation observed the elections and concluded that the elections were remarkably fair, and that "Generally speaking, in this campaign the FSLN did little more to take advantage of its incumbency than incumbent parties everywhere (including the United States) routinely do, and considerably less than ruling parties in other Latin American countries traditionally do (The Electoral Process in Nicaragua, LASA, Nov. 19, 1984). Nevertheless, political scientists who study democratization do not consider this election to have resulted in any meaningful political liberalization in the country. Only the general election of 1990 marked...