1970 Guatemalan general election

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1 March 1970

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Presidential election


Nominee	Carlos Arana Osorio	Mario Fuentes Pieruccini
Party	MLN	Revolutionary
Running mate	Eduardo Cáceres	Óscar Castañeda
Electoral vote	37	17
Popular vote	251,135	202,241
Percentage	43.35%	34.91%

President before election

Julio Méndez
Revolutionary

President-elect

Carlos Arana
MLN

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General elections were held in Guatemala on 1 March 1970.^[1] No candidate received over 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio being elected by Congress on 21 March by a vote of 37 to 17.^[2] The National Liberation Movement–Institutional Democratic Party alliance also won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 54% in the presidential election and 53% in the Congressional elections.

Results

President


Candidate		Party	Popular vote		Congress vote
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio	MLN–PID	251,135	43.35	37	68.52
	Mario Fuentes Pieruccini	Revolutionary Party	202,241	34.91	17	31.48
	Jorge Lucas Caballeros	Guatemalan Christian Democracy	125,948	21.74
Total			579,324	100.00	54	100.00

Valid votes			579,324	90.42
Invalid/blank votes			61,360	9.58
Total votes			640,684	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			1,190,449	53.82	55	–
Source: Nohlen

Congress


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	MLN–PID	231,528	41.71	31	+5
	Revolutionary Party	201,119	36.24	19	–10
	Guatemalan Christian Democracy	122,379	22.05	0	New
Total		555,026	100.00	50	0

Valid votes		555,026	87.55
Invalid/blank votes		78,953	12.45
Total votes		633,979	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,190,449	53.26
Source: Nohlen

References

Bibliography

Guía del organismo legislativo República de Guatemala. Preparada por el Instituto Nacional de Administración para el Desarrollo, Dobierno de la República. 1968.
Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
Political handbook of the world 1970. New York, 1971.

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See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America