Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1950
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Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala for half the seats in Congress on 16 December 1950. The Revolutionary Action Party won a plurality of seats.
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats |
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Revolutionary Action Party | 15 | ||
National Renovation Party | 9 | ||
Popular Liberation Front | 7 | ||
Socialist Party | 7 | ||
Guatemalan Labor Party | 3 | ||
National Integrity Party | 2 | ||
Revolutionary party of National Union | 1 | ||
Other parties¹ | 12 | ||
Independents¹ | 2 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | - | - | |
Total | 58 |
¹ The other parties were opposition parties, whilst the independents were all pro-government.
Bibliography
- Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
- Political handbook of the world 1951. New York, 1952.
- Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
- Gleijeses, Piero. 1991. Shattered hope. The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Rodríguez de Ita, Guadalupe. 2003.La participación política en la primavera guatemalteca: una aproximación a la historia de los partidos durante el periodo 1944-1954. México: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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