1974 Guatemalan general election

1974 Guatemalan general election

3 March 1974

Nominee Kjell Laugerud Efraín Ríos Montt Party MLN DCG Home state Guatemala City Guatemala City Running mate Mario Sandoval Alberto Fuentes Electoral vote 32 0 Popular vote 298,953 228,067 Percentage 44.61% 34.03%

President before election Carlos Arana Osorio MLN President-elect Kjell Laugerud García MLN

General elections were held in Guatemala on 3 March 1974. No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García being elected president by Congress on 12 March. The Congressional elections were won by an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party and the National Liberation Movement. Voter turnout was 46.41% in the presidential election.

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Public vote		Congress vote
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García	MLN-PID	298,953	44.61	32	100
José Efraín Ríos Montt	National Opposition Front¹	228,067	34.03	0	0
Ernesto Paíz Novales	Revolutionary Party	143,111	21.36	-	-
Invalid/blank votes		57,059	-		-
Total		727,174	100	60	100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The National Opposition Front was an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy, the Social Democratic Party and the Authentic Revolutionary Party.

Congress

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
National Liberation Movement			16	-
Institutional Democratic Party			14	-
National Opposition Front			14	-
Revolutionary Party			10	-9
Central Aranista Organisation			6	New
Invalid/blank votes		-	-	-
Total		100	60	+5

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.