1953 Guatemalan parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala for half the seats in Congress between 16 and 18 January 1953. The Revolutionary Action Party won a plurality of seats.

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Results
Party Votes % Seats
Revolutionary Action Party22
Party of the Guatemalan Revolution16
National Renovation Party7
Guatemalan Labor Party4
Four other parties¹5
Independents¹4
Invalid/blank votes--
Total241,31810056

¹ The four 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.
  • Political handbook of the world 1953. New York, 1954.
  • Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
  • Gleijeses, Piero. 1991. Shattered hope. The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Schlesinger, Stephen and Stephen Kinzer. 1982. Bitter fruit: the untold story of the American coup in Guatemala. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
  • 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.
  • Silvert, Kalman H. 1954. A study in government: Guatemala. New Orleans: Tulane University.
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