General elections were held in Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

 on 3 November 1985, with a second round of the presidential elections taking place on 8 December. The presidential election resulted in a victory for Vinicio Cerezo

Vinicio Cerezo

Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo is a Guatemalan politician. He served as President of Guatemala from 14 January 1986 to 14 January 1991 and currently sits in Congress.-Career:...

, who had received $650,000 towards his campaign from media owner Remigio Ángel González

Remigio Ángel González

Remigio Ángel González González , usually known as Angel Gonzalez, is the Mexican-born owner of the Latin American media network Albavisión; he has lived in Miami since 1987. The network is named for his wife Alba Elvira Lorenzana, from Guatemala...

. The Congressional elections resulted in a victory for Cerezo's Guatemalan Christian Democracy

Guatemalan Christian Democracy

The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but...

, which won 51 of the 100 seats. Voter turnout was 69.3%.

President

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Vinicio Cerezo Vinicio Cerezo Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo is a Guatemalan politician. He served as President of Guatemala from 14 January 1986 to 14 January 1991 and currently sits in Congress.-Career:...	Guatemalan Christian Democracy Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but...	648,803	38.65	1,133,517	68.37
Jorge Carpio Nicolle Jorge Carpio Nicolle Jorge Carpio Nicolle was a prominent Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the Unión del Centro Nacional in 1984, and ran as the party's candidate for president in the elections of 1985 and 1990. He came in second in both elections...	National Centre Union	339,695	20.23	542,306	31.63
Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías	PCDN-PRG	231,423	13,79
Mario Sandoval Alarcón Mario Sandoval Alarcón Mario Sandoval Alarcón was a Guatemalan politician. He is the founder in 1960 of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional . In 1954, he helped support colonel Carlos Castillo's coup against Jacobo Arbenz....	MLN National Liberation Movement (Guatemala) The National Liberation Movement was a Guatemala military-backed party formed in 1960 by Mario Sandoval Alarcón as a breakaway from the National Democratic Movement.... -PID Institutional Democratic Party The Institutional Democratic Party was a Guatemalan pro-government political party active during the 1970s.The PID was formed in 1963 by Enrique Peralta Azurdia after he had seized power in a coup. A centre-right party, it was modelled on the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party. From the...	210,966	12,56
Mario David García	Nationalist Authentic Centre	105,540	06,28
Mario Solórzano Martínez	Democratic Social Party	57,368	03,42
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre	National Renewal Party	52,949	03,15
Lionel Sisniega Otero Barrios	PUA-MEC-FUN National Unity Front The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,...	32,256	01,91
Invalid/blank votes		228,771
Total		1,907,771	100	1,657,823	100
Source: Nohlen

Congress

Party	PR			District			Total seats
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Guatemalan Christian Democracy Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but...	648,803	38.6	11	575,785	34.6	40	51
National Centre Union	339,695	20.2	5	342,742	20.6	17	22
PDCN-PRG	231,423	13.8	4	225,246	13.5	7	11
MLN National Liberation Movement (Guatemala) The National Liberation Movement was a Guatemala military-backed party formed in 1960 by Mario Sandoval Alarcón as a breakaway from the National Democratic Movement.... -PID Institutional Democratic Party The Institutional Democratic Party was a Guatemalan pro-government political party active during the 1970s.The PID was formed in 1963 by Enrique Peralta Azurdia after he had seized power in a coup. A centre-right party, it was modelled on the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party. From the...	210,966	12.6	3	254,276	15.3	9	12
Nationalist Authentic Centre	105,540	6.3	1	104,374	6.3	0	1
Democratic Social Party	57,368	3.4	1	60,946	3.7	1	2
National Renewal Party	52,949	3.2	0	70,514	4.2	1	1
PUA-MEC-FUN National Unity Front The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,...	32,256	1.9	0	27,234	1.6	0	0
Democratic Civic Front	3,631	0.2	0
0
Invalid/blank votes	228,771
239,488
Total	1,907,771	100	25	1,904,236	100	75	100
Source: Nohlen