1950 Guatemalan presidential election

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10–12 November 1950

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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

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Presidential elections were held in Guatemala between 10 and 12 November 1950.^[1] The result was a victory for Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who received 65.44% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.6%.

Results


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Jacobo Árbenz	PAR–PIN–PS–PRN	266,778	65.44
	Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes	PRDN–PUA–PUD	76,180	18.69
	Jorge García Granados	People's Party	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 Marroquín Rojas	Guatemalan Social Harmony Party	6,589	1.62
	José Arcadio Chévez Guillén	Authentic Revolutionary Front of Socialist Orientation	4,041	0.99
	Miguel Angel Mendoza	Popular Union	1,684	0.41
	Alejandro Valdizón		712	0.17
Total			407,663	100.00

Valid votes			407,663	97.63
Invalid/blank votes			9,907	2.37
Total votes			417,570	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			583,300	71.59
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.

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See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America