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1954 Guatemalan general election
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1954 General elections in Guatemala
February 2026
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Constituent Assembly elections were held alongside a plebiscite on the presidency of Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala on 10 October 1954. A reported 99.92% of voters voted in favour of Armas' presidency, whilst the National Anti-Communist Front won 57 of the 65 seats in the Assembly.
Results
Armas as president
ChoiceVotes%For485,69999.92Against4000.08Invalid/blank votes –Total486,099100Source: Holden
Constituent Assembly
National Anti-Communist Front 57 Anti-Communist University Students Committee 2 ACCA 2 Independent Anti-Communist Party of the West 2 Independents 2 Ebel
Bibliography
Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
Political handbook of the world 1954. New York, 1955.
Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
Holden, Robert H. 2004. Armies without nations: public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ebel, Roland H. 1998. Misunderstood caudillo: Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes and the failure of democracy in Guatemala. Lanham: University Press of America.
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