Conservative National Party candidate Nasry Asfura leads the Honduran presidential election with 34 percent of votes counted, according to the country's electoral authority. 

Nasry Asfura, 67, is a former mayor of Tegucigalpa and the candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump. 

His party's last president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who ran the country from 2014 to 2022, is serving a sentence in the U.S. on drug trafficking charges. 

Whichever candidate wins a simple majority will govern the country between 2026 and 2030.