1974 Guatemalan general election

none Guatemala 1970 Guatemalan general election 1970 1978 Guatemalan general election 1978 3 March 1974 yes Presidential election presidential Foto alternativa del retrato presidencial de Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia (b) (cropped).jpg Kjell Laugerud 298,953 44.61% PID Mario Sandoval Alberto Fuentes 32 0 Rios Montt.png Efraín Ríos Montt 228,067 34.03% Guatemalan Christian Democracy President Carlos Arana Osorio Institutional Democratic Party President-elect Kjell Laugerud García Institutional Democratic Party General elections were held in Guatemala on 3 March 1974.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 978-0-19-928357-6 The ruling Institutional Democratic Party's presidential candidate was General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, an army officer whose running mate was Mario Sandoval Alarcón, the long-time leader of the far-right National Liberation Movement. The National Opposition Front's candidate was also an army officer, General Efraín Ríos Montt, whose running mate was economist Alberto Fuentes Mohr. The National Opposition Front was a coalition of the Guatemalan Christian Democracy, Fuentes's Social Democratic Party, and the Authentic Revolutionary Party. After the National Opposition Front led the first counts on election night, the government stopped releasing further updates and several days later declared that Laugerud had won by about 71,000 votes. According to many independent observers, this result was fraudulent, and Ríos had actually received a clear majority of the votes.Robert T. Buckman (2012) Latin America 2012 p192Garrard Virginia Coups and Communism in Guatemala: General Efraín Ríos Montt, 1982–1983 2025 Coups d'État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982 197–214 Coleman Kevin https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/coups-detat-in-cold-war-latin-america-19641982/coups-and-communism-in-guatemala/771D340FB30B48AD4E1147DD3841F912 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781009344821.010 978-1-009-34483-8 Carassai Sebastián subscription Since none of the presidential candidates were reported as having obtaining more than 50% of the popular vote, the election was ultimately decided by the government-controlled National Congress, which chose Laugerud by a vote of 38 to 2, with 15 opposition deputies abstaining.Carlos Sabino Guatemala, a Silenced History (1944-1989): Volume II, A Break in the Domino Effect (1963-1989) Guatemala Grafiaetc 2018 15: Arana Osorio's Government 978-9929759237Britannica Book of the Year 1975, p. 335 Soon after the election, General Ríos was posted as military attaché to Guatemala's embassy in Madrid.Gen Efraín Ríos Montt obituary The Guardian, 2 April 2018 The Congressional elections were also won by the alliance of Laugerud's Institutional Democratic Party and Sandoval's National Liberation Movement. Results President Popular vote Congress vote Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García PID–MLN 298953 32 Efraín Ríos Montt National Opposition Front 228067 0 Guatemalan Christian Democracy Ernesto Paíz Novales Revolutionary Party 143111 57059 1566724 55 Nohlen (popular vote) Congress National Liberation Movement 16 – Institutional Democratic Party 14 – National Opposition Front 14 +14 Revolutionary Party 10 –9 Central Aranista Organisation 6 New +5 Nohlen References Bibliography Guía del organismo legislativo República de Guatemala. Preparada por el Instituto Nacional de Administración para el Desarrollo, Dobierno de la República. 1968. Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004. Political handbook of the world 1974. New York, 1975. Category:Parliamentary elections in Guatemala General Guatemala Category:Presidential elections in Guatemala Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results