Guatemalan presidential election, 1950
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Presidential elections were held in Guatemala
between 10 and 12 November 1950. The result was a victory for Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
, who received 65.44% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.62%.
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...
between 10 and 12 November 1950. The result was a victory for Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944–1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954....
, who received 65.44% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.62%.
Results
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944–1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.... |
PAR Revolutionary Action Party Revolutionary Action Party , PAR. Left political party in Guatemala. PAR was formed in November 1945 through the merger of two parties that had brought Arevalo to power, the National Renovation Party and the Popular Front Liberator... -PIN National Integrity Party The National Integrity Party is a “personalistic Arbenzista party organized in Quezaltenango , Arbenz' birthplace, specifically to counteract the equally regional opposition Independent Anti-Communist Party of the West”.In 1952 the party merged with the National Renovation Party, Revolutionary... -PS Socialist Party (Guatemala) The Socialist Party was a political party in Guatemala. The party was formed in 1951 by dissident members of the Revolutionary Action Party.The Socialist Party sought to become the major rallying ground for non-communist elements supporting the government of President Jacobo Arbenz... -PRN National Renovation Party National Renovation Party , PRN. Center-left Party of Guatemala.The PRN was founded by a group of the young revolutionaries on the day that Ubico fell, July 1, 1944... |
266,778 | 65.44 |
| Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes General José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes was President of Guatemala from 2 March 1958 to 31 March 1963. He took power following the murder of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.... |
PRDN National Democratic Reconciliation Party National Democratic Reconciliation Party . PRDN was a moderate conservative party in Guatemala.The PRDN was founded in 1950 by General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes.... -PUA-PUD |
76,180 | 18.69 |
| Jorge García Granados Jorge Garcia Granados Dr. Jorge García-Granados was a diplomat from Guatemala educated at the Sorbonne in Paris. A direct descendant of Miguel García Granados, the leader and philosopher of the liberal revolution in the 19th century, Granados was the ambassador of his country to the United Nations and a member of the... |
People's Party People's Party (Guatemala) The People's Party was a political party in Guatemala. The party was led by Jorge García Granados, and functioned as his personal political vehicle. García had been a leader in the 1944 October Revolution. The party opposed the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. It disappeared after the 1954 coup.... |
28,897 | 7.09 |
| Víctor Manuel Giordiani | Popular Liberation Front | 15,664 | 3.84 |
| Manuel Galich | Popular Liberation Front (Galich) | 7,118 | 1.75 |
| Clemente Manoquín Rojas | Guatemalan Social Harmony Party | 6,589 | 1.62 |
| Arcadio Chévez Guillén | Authentic Revolutionary Front of Socialist Orientation | 4,041 | 0.99 |
| Miguel Angel Mendoza | Popular Union | 1,684 | 0.41 |
| Alejandro Valdizón | PORN | 712 | 0.17 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 9,907 | - | |
| Total | 417,570 | 100 | |
| Source: Nohlen | |||
Biboliography
- 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.