1982 Guatemalan general election

none Guatemala 1978 Guatemalan general election 1978 1985 Guatemalan general election 1985 7 March 1982 yes Presidential election presidential Ángel Aníbal Guevara (cropped).jpg Aníbal Guevara 379,051 38.86% FPD no 34 0 Ramiro Ponce Leonel Sisniega 58D68D Retrato oficial de Vicepresidente Mario Sandoval Alarcón (cropped).jpg Mario Sandoval 275,487 28.24% National Liberation Movement (Guatemala) President Romeo Lucas García PID-PR-CAO President after election Results annulled (Ángel Aníbal Guevara overthrown by military junta) General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 978-0-19-928357-6 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. Ángel Aníbal Guevara Popular Democratic Front 379051 #58D68D Mario Sandoval Alarcón National Liberation Movement 275487 Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre National Opposition Union 221810 Gustavo Anzueto Vielnam Nationalist Authentic Centre 99047 103997 2355064 Nohlen 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. Popular Democratic Front 33 +2 #58D68D National Liberation Movement 21 +1 National Opposition Union 9 +2 Nationalist Authentic Centre 3 New +5 Nohlen 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. Category:Parliamentary elections in Guatemala General Guatemala Category:Presidential elections in Guatemala Category:Annulled elections Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results