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1982 Guatemalan general election

FieldValue
countryGuatemala
previous_election1978 Guatemalan general election
previous_year1978
next_election1985 Guatemalan general election
next_year1985
election_date7 March 1982
module{{Infobox election
embedyes
election_namePresidential election
typepresidential
image1Ángel Aníbal Guevara (cropped).jpg
nominee1Aníbal Guevara
popular_vote1379,051
percentage138.86%
party1FPD
party1_nameno
electoral_vote134
electoral_vote20
running_mate1Ramiro Ponce
running_mate2Leonel Sisniega
colour158D68D
image2Retrato oficial de Vicepresidente Mario Sandoval Alarcón (cropped).jpg
nominee2Mario Sandoval
popular_vote2275,487
percentage228.24%
party2National Liberation Movement (Guatemala)
titlePresident
before_electionRomeo Lucas García
before_partyPID-PR-CAO
posttitlePresident after election
after_electionResults annulled
(Ángel Aníbal Guevara overthrown by military junta)

(Ángel Aníbal Guevara overthrown by military junta)

General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982. Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July. However, the elections were widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

Voter turnout was 45.83% in the presidential election.

Results

President

Ángel Aníbal Guevara was the candidate of the Popular Democratic Front, an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party, the Revolutionary Party and the National Unity Front. Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre was the candidate of the National Opposition Union, an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy and the National Renewal Party.

Congress

Of the nine seats won by the National Opposition Union, seven were taken by Guatemalan Christian Democracy and two by the National Renewal Party.

References

Bibliography

  • Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
  • Political handbook of the world 1982. New York, 1983.

References

  1. [[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
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