1950 Guatemalan parliamentary election

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.

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Results
Party Votes % Seats
Revolutionary Action Party15
National Renovation Party9
Popular Liberation Front7
Socialist Party7
Guatemalan Labor Party3
National Integrity Party2
Revolutionary party of National Union1
Other parties¹12
Independents¹2
Invalid/blank votes--
Total58

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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