1950 Guatemalan presidential election

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1950 Guatemalan presidential election

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Nominee Jacobo Árbenz Miguel Ydígoras Jorge García Granados
Party PAR PRDN People's Party
Popular vote 266,778 76,180 28,897
Percentage 65.44% 18.69% 7.09%

President before election

Juan José Arévalo

PAR

President-elect

Jacobo Árbenz
PAR

Presidential elections were held in

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
, who received 65.44% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.6%.

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Clemente Marroquín Rojas
Guatemalan Social Harmony Party6,5891.62
José Arcadio Chévez GuillénAuthentic Revolutionary Front of Socialist Orientation4,0410.99
Miguel Angel MendozaPopular Union1,6840.41
Alejandro Valdizón7120.17
Total407,663100.00
Valid votes407,66397.63
Invalid/blank votes9,9072.37
Total votes417,570100.00
Registered voters/turnout583,30071.59
Source: Nohlen

References

Bibliography

  • Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
  • Political handbook of the world 1951. New York, 1952.
  • Gleijeses, Piero. 1991. Shattered hope. The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Rodríguez de Ita, Guadalupe. 2003. La participación política en la primavera guatemalteca: una aproximación a la historia de los partidos durante el periodo 1944–1954. México: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.