Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1950

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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.

Results

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Revolutionary Action Party			15
National Renovation Party			9
Popular Liberation Front			7
Socialist Party			7
Guatemalan Labor Party			3
National Integrity Party			2
Revolutionary party of National Union			1
Other parties¹			12
Independents¹			2
Invalid/blank votes		-	-
Total			58

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.
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• 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.