1958 Guatemalan general election

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, , the , the and the National Anti-Communist Front won 40 of the 66 seats in Congress.

Results[]


Candidate		Party	Popular vote		Congress vote
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes	PRDN–––––FAN	190,972	40.80	40	68.97
		MDN–PUA–PL––DCG	138,488	29.58	18	31.03
		Revolutionary Party	132,824	28.37
		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


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)

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.

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