Presidential elections were held in
Guatemala
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between 17 and 19 December 1944.
Dieter Nohlen
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(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 The
October Revolution
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had overthrown
Jorge Ubico, the American-backed dictator, after which a junta composed of
Francisco Javier Arana,
Jacobo Árbenz and
Jorge Toriello took power, and quickly announced presidential elections, as well as elections for a constitutional assembly. The subsequent elections were broadly considered free and fair,
[Richard H. Immerman, (1982) ''The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention'', p45] although only literate men were given the vote.
[Gleijeses, p36] Unlike in similar historical situations, none of the junta members stood for election.
[ The front-runner was the philosophically conservative University professor Juan José Arévalo, of the ]National Renovation Party The National Renovation Party (Spanish: ''Partido Renovación Nacional'', PRN) was a reformist and progressive political party in Guatemala that was supportive of the government of Jacobo Arbenz. The PRN was founded by a group of the young revoluti ...
. His closest challenger was Adrián Recinos, whose campaign included a number of individuals identified with the Ubico regime.[ The ballots were tallied on 19 December and Arévalo won in a landslide with 86.25% of the vote, receiving more than four times as many votes as the other candidates combined.][ The Constitutional Assembly elections took place on 28–30 December, with the United Front of Arevalist Parties winning 50 of the 65 seats.
]
Results
References
Bibliography
*Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
*Political handbook of the world 1946. New York, 1945.
*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.
*El estado y los partidos politicos en Guatemala, 1944-1951. by José Campang Chang Published in 1992, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala ( uatemala
*Castillo, R. Geografía Electoral de Guatemala, Guatemala, INCEP, 1972.
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Presidential elections in Guatemala
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1944 in Guatemala
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