A conservative candidate backed by US President Donald Trump narrowly leads a right-wing rival in Honduras's presidential election, according to partial results from the electoral commission released Monday.

Nasry Asfura, 67, had 40 percent of the votes and led Salvador Nasralla by just 0.2 percentage points, with 56 percent of votes counted, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).

Both candidates were more than 20 percentage points ahead of Rixi Moncada, 60, of ruling leftist Libre party, who was trailing heavily, signaling another Latin American nation poised to swing rightward.

The campaign was dominated by Trump's threat to cut aid if his favored candidate Asfura, who is nicknamed "grandad," were to lose.

The vote count from Sunday's election has progressed slowly, and f

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