Guatemalan general election, 1974

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General elections were held in Guatemala on 3 March 1974.^[1] No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García being elected president by Congress on 12 March. The Congressional elections were won by an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party and the National Liberation Movement. Voter turnout was 46.41% in the presidential election.

Results

Candidate	Party	Public vote		Congress vote
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García	MLN-PID	298,953	44.61	32	100
José Efraín Ríos Montt	National Opposition Front¹	228,067	34.03	0	0
Ernesto Paíz Novales	Revolutionary Party	143,111	21.36	-	-
Invalid/blank votes		57,059	-		-
Total		727,174	100	60	100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The National Opposition Front was an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy, the Social Democratic Party and the Authentic Revolutionary Party.

Party	%	Seats	+/-
National Liberation Movement		16	-
Institutional Democratic Party		14	-
National Opposition Front		14	-
Revolutionary Party		10	-9
Central Aranista Organisation		6	New
Invalid/blank votes	-	-	-
Total	100	60	+5

↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

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 1974. New York, 1975.

Elections and referendums in Guatemala

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See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America

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