Guatemalan general election, 1990
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General elections were held in Guatemala
on 16 November 1990. with a second round of the presidential election held on 6 January 1991. The presidential election resulted in a victory for Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías of the Movement of Action in Solidarity, whilst the National Centre Union won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 56.4% in the elections on 16 November and 45.2% in the elections in January.
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 16 November 1990. with a second round of the presidential election held on 6 January 1991. The presidential election resulted in a victory for Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías of the Movement of Action in Solidarity, whilst the National Centre Union won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 56.4% in the elections on 16 November and 45.2% in the elections in January.
President
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
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 | 399,777 | 25.7 | 438,990 | 31.9 |
Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías | Movement of Action in Solidarity | 375,165 | 24.1 | 936,389 | 68.1 |
Luis Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo | 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... |
271,933 | 17.5 | ||
Álvaro Arzú Álvaro Arzú Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000... |
National Advancement Party National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president .... |
268,796 | 17.3 | ||
Luis Ernesto Sosa Dávila | 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.... -FAN |
74,825 | 4.8 | ||
Rene Armando De León Schlotter | PSD-AP5 | 55,819 | 3.6 | ||
José Ángel Lee Duarte | Revolutionary Party of Guatemala | 33,429 | 2.2 | ||
Jose Ramon Fernández González | Democratic Party of National Cooperation | 32,325 | 2.1 | ||
Manuel Benedicto Lucas García | Emerging Movement of Harmony | 16,894 | 1.1 | ||
Fernando Antonio Leal Estevez | National Renewal Party | 11,052 | 0.7 | ||
Leonel Hernández Cardona | United Front of the Revolution | 7,957 | 0.5 | ||
Jorge Antonio Reyna Castillo | Democratic Party | 6,341 | 0.4 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 254,488 | – | 74,110 | – | |
Total | 1,808,801 | 100 | 1,449,489 | 100 | |
Source: Nohlen |
Congress
Party | District | PR | Total seats | ||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
National Centre Union | 357,528 | 22.28 | 33 | 399,679 | 25.72 | 8 | 41 |
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... |
276,072 | 17.21 | 21 | 271,842 | 17.49 | 6 | 27 |
National Advancement Party National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president .... |
233,559 | 14.56 | 7 | 268,776 | 17.29 | 5 | 12 |
Movement of Action in Solidarity | 225,031 | 14.02 | 10 | 375,119 | 24.14 | 8 | 18 |
FRG Guatemalan Republican Front The Guatemalan Republican Front is a right-wing political party in Guatemala.It was created in 1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990... -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... -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,... |
201,401 | 12.55 | 12 | – | – | – | 12 |
National Liberation Movement 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.... |
83,738 | 5.22 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
PSD-AP5 | 64,633 | 4.03 | 0 | 55,804 | 3.59 | 1 | 1 |
Revolutionary Party | 50,547 | 3.15 | 1 | 33,417 | 2.15 | 0 | 1 |
Democratic Party of National Cooperation | 24,750 | 1.54 | 0 | 32,297 | 2.08 | 0 | 0 |
National Renewal Party | 17,386 | 1.08 | 0 | 11,025 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 |
United Front of the Revolution | 16,808 | 1.05 | 0 | 7,950 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 |
Democratic Party | 13,284 | 0.83 | 0 | 6,413 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 |
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... -FUR-FRG Guatemalan Republican Front The Guatemalan Republican Front is a right-wing political party in Guatemala.It was created in 1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990... |
11,923 | 0.74 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Emerging Movement of Harmony | 10,759 | 0.67 | 0 | 16,915 | 1.09 | 0 | 0 |
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.... -FAN |
4,381 | 0.27 | 0 | 74,994 | 4.83 | 1 | 1 |
Organised Nationalist Union | 3,422 | 0.21 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Popular Alliance 5 | 2,521 | 0.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Democratic Social Party | 2,204 | 0.14 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Guatemalan Republican Front Guatemalan Republican Front The Guatemalan Republican Front is a right-wing political party in Guatemala.It was created in 1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990... |
1,875 | 0.12 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
National Progress Front | 1,684 | 0.10 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Progressive Liberating Party | 590 | 0.04 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
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,... -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... |
447 | 0.03 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
PNR-MEC | 320 | 0.02 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 196,733 | – | – | 254,487 | – | – | – |
Total | 1,801,596 | 56.21 | 87 | 1,808,718 | 56.44 | 29 | 116 |