1958 Guatemalan general election

1958 Guatemalan general election

19 January 1958

Presidential election

Nominee Miguel Ydígoras José Luis Cruz Mario Méndez Party PRDN MDN Revolutionary Electoral vote 40 18 Popular vote 190,972 138,488 132,824 Percentage 40.80% 29.58% 28.37%

President before election Guillermo Flores Avendaño MLN President-elect Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes PRDN

General elections were held in Guatemala on 19 January 1958 after the 1957 elections were nullified. After no candidate received 50% or more of the national vote, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was elected President by Congress on 12 February, whilst an alliance of the National Democratic Reconciliation Party, Nationalist Democratic Party, the Nationalist Liberal Party, the Democratic National Association and the National Anti-Communist Front won 40 of the 66 seats in Congress.

Results

President

Candidate		Party	Popular vote		Congress vote
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes	PRDN–PDN–PLN–PLAG–ANDE–FAN	190,972	40.80	40	68.97
	José Luis Cruz Salazar	MDN–PUA–PL–PR–DCG	138,488	29.58	18	31.03
	Mario Méndez Montenegro	Revolutionary Party	132,824	28.37
	José Enrique Ardón Fernández	Nationalist Liberal Union Party	5,834	1.25
Total			468,118	100.00	58	100.00
Valid votes			468,118	95.09	58	89.23
Invalid/blank votes			24,156	4.91	7	10.77
Total votes			492,274	100.00	65	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			736,400	66.85	66	98.48
Source: Nohlen, New York Times

Congress

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	National Democratic Reconciliation Party	127,195	36.99	40
	Anti-Communist Unification Party	112,105	32.60	20
	Revolutionary Party	88,418	25.71	6
	Liberal Party	3,785	1.10	0
	National Democratic Movement	3,674	1.07	0
	Party Nationalist Liberal Union	2,955	0.86	0
	Anticommunist Authentic Party	2,451	0.71	0
	Guatemalan Anticommunist Liberal Party	1,918	0.56	0
	Democratic Workers’ Party	1,382	0.40	0
Total		343,883	100.00	66
Source: Nohlen (votes)

Bibliography

• Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
• Political handbook of the world 1958. New York, 1959.
• Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.