Guatemalan general election, 1958

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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

Candidate	Party	Public vote		Congress vote
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes	PRDN-PDN-PLN-PLAG-ANDE-FAN	190,972	40.80	40	69.0
José Luis Cruz Salazar	MDN-PUA-PL-PR-DCG	138,488	29.58	18	31.0
Mario Méndez Montenegro	Revolutionary Party	132,824	28.37	-	-
José Enrique Ardón Fernández	Nationalist Liberal Union Party	5,834	1.25	-	-
Invalid/blank votes		24,156	-	7	-
Total		492,274	100	65	100

Party	Votes	%	Seats
PRDN-PDN-PLN-ANDE-FAN	127,195	36.99	40
PUA-PR-DCG	112,105	32.60	20
Revolutionary Party	88,418	25.71	6
Liberal Party	3,785	01.10	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
Invalid/blank votes		-	-
Total	343,883	100	66

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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See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America

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