Guatemalan presidential election, 1982

Guatemalan general election, 1982

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Nominee Aníbal Guevara Mario Sandoval Party FPD MLN Home state Escuintla Guatemala City Running mate Ramiro Ponce Leonel Sisniega Electoral vote 34 0 Popular vote 379,051 275,487 Percentage 38.86% 28.24%

President before election Romeo Lucas García PID-PR-CAO President-elect Ángel Aníbal Guevara FPD

Romeo Lucas García
PID-PR-CAO

Ángel Aníbal Guevara
FPD

General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982.Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July. However, the election was widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

Voter turnout was 45.83% in the presidential election.

¹ The Popular Democratic Front was an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party, the Revolutionary Party and the National Unity Front.

² the National Opposing Union was an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy and the National Renewal Party.

³ Of the nine seats won by the UNO, seven were taken by Guatemalan Christian Democracy and two by the National Renewal Party.

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