Guatemalan general election, 1995
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General elections were held in Guatemala
on 12 November 1995, with a second round of the presidentail elections held on 7 January 1996. Álvaro Arzú
of the National Advancement Party
won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 46.8% on 12 November and 36.9% on 7 January.
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
on 12 November 1995, with a second round of the presidentail elections held on 7 January 1996. Álvaro Arzú
Álvaro Arzú
Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000...
of the National Advancement Party
National Advancement Party
The National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president ....
won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 46.8% on 12 November and 36.9% on 7 January.
President
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Álvaro Arzú Álvaro Arzú Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000... |
National Advancement Party National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president .... |
565,393 | 36.5 | 671,354 | 51.2 |
| Alfonso Portillo Cabrera | Guatemalan Republican Front Guatemalan Republican Front The Guatemalan Republican Front is a right-wing political party in Guatemala.It was created in 1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990... |
341,364 | 22.0 | 639,404 | 48.8 |
| Fernando Andrade Díaz-Duran | UCN-DCG Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but... -PSD |
200,393 | 12.9 | ||
| Jorge Luis González Del Valle | Democratic Front New Guatemala | 119,305 | 7.7 | ||
| Acisclo Valladares Molina | Progressive Liberating Party | 80,761 | 5.6 | ||
| José Luis Chea Urruela | Democratic Union | 56,191 | 3.6 | ||
| Luis Rolando Torres Casanova | Authentic Integral Development Authentic Integral Development Authentic Integral Development was a political party in Guatemala.At the last legislative elections, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 3.0% of the popular vote and 1 out of 158 seats in Congress.... |
39,425 | 2.6 | ||
| Héctor Mario López Fuentes | National Liberation Movement National Liberation Movement (Guatemala) The National Liberation Movement was a Guatemala military-backed party formed in 1960 by Mario Sandoval Alarcón as a breakaway from the National Democratic Movement.... |
35,675 | 2.3 | ||
| José Fernandez José Fernández José Fernández may refer to:*José Agustín Fernández, Paraguayan judge and human rights activist, found the "terror archives"*José Ramón Fernández Álvarez , vice-president of the Cuban Council of Ministers... |
Progressive Party | 25,219 | 1.63 | ||
| Hector Alejandro Gramajo Morales | FUN National Unity Front The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,... -PID |
18,060 | 1.17 | ||
| Miguel Angel Montepeque Contreras | Guatemalan Reformist Party | 17,471 | 1.13 | ||
| Monchis Godoy Gomez | National Historic Change | 11,344 | 0.73 | ||
| Juan Jose Rodil Peralta | People's Party People's Party (Guatemala) The People's Party was a political party in Guatemala. The party was led by Jorge García Granados, and functioned as his personal political vehicle. García had been a leader in the 1944 October Revolution. The party opposed the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. It disappeared after the 1954 coup.... |
8,140 | 0.53 | ||
| Ángel Aníbal Guevara Ángel Aníbal Guevara Ángel Aníbal Guevara Rodríguez is a Guatemalan soldier and politician. He was born in La Democracia, Escuintla in 1924.Having served as defense minister in the previous administration, Guevara was victorious in the 7 March 1982 presidential election to succeed outgoing President Romeo Lucas, who... |
Guatemalan Democratic Party | 6,714 | 0.43 | ||
| Carlos Agusto Morales Villatoro | Popular Alliance 5 | 6,193 | 0.40 | ||
| Lionel Sisniega Otero Barrios | Nationalist Authentic Centre | 6,079 | 0.39 | ||
| Flor De Maria Alvarado Suarez De Solis | Popular Democratic Force | 5,885 | 0.38 | ||
| Mario Francisco Castejon Garcia Prendes | Destitute People's Movement | 3,119 | 0.20 | ||
| Carlos Alfonso Gonzalez Quezada | PCN-MPL | 2,133 | 0.14 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 188,169 | – | 58,070 | – | |
| Total | 1,737,033 | 100 | 1,368,828 | 100 | |
Congress
| Party | District | PR | Total seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| National Advancement Party National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president .... |
477,232 | 32.80 | 36 | 645,446 | 37.76 | 7 | 43 |
| Guatemalan Republican Front Guatemalan Republican Front The Guatemalan Republican Front is a right-wing political party in Guatemala.It was created in 1989 by former president and dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and formally registered in 1990... |
284,936 | 19.59 | 17 | 335,195 | 19.61 | 4 | 21 |
| Democratic Front New Guatemala | 120,368 | 8.27 | 4 | 163,600 | 9.57 | 2 | 6 |
| Guatemalan Christian Democracy Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but... |
78,932 | 5.43 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
| National Centre Union | 86,882 | 5.97 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 |
| Democratic Union Democratic Union (Guatemala) The Democratic Union is a political party in Guatemala.At the legislative elections, 9 November 2003, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats... |
61,979 | 4.26 | 1 | 68,663 | 4.02 | 1 | 2 |
| UCN-DCG Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but... -PSD |
30,415 | 2.09 | 0 | 188,488 | 11.03 | 2 | 2 |
| National Liberation Movement National Liberation Movement (Guatemala) The National Liberation Movement was a Guatemala military-backed party formed in 1960 by Mario Sandoval Alarcón as a breakaway from the National Democratic Movement.... |
46,346 | 3.19 | 1 | 51,315 | 3.00 | 0 | 1 |
| Guatemalan Reformist Party | 26,741 | 1.84 | 0 | 25,366 | 1.48 | 0 | 0 |
| Democratic Social Party | 6,579 | 0.45 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Nationalist Authentic Centre | 4,937 | 0.34 | 0 | 10,028 | 0.59 | 0 | 0 |
| Progressive Party | 15,170 | 1.04 | 0 | 25,200 | 1.47 | 0 | 0 |
| Popular Democratic Front Popular Democratic Front The Popular Democratic Front was a coalition of Italian political parties for the Parliamentary election of 1948. It consisted of:* Italian Communist Party - communist... |
1,822 | 0.13 | 0 | 5,092 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 |
| Popular Alliance 5 | 6,914 | 0.48 | 0 | 9,647 | 0.56 | 0 | 0 |
| Destitute People's Movement | 2,510 | 0.17 | 0 | 3,737 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 |
| Progressive Liberating Party | 54,651 | 3.76 | 0 | 70,565 | 4.13 | 0 | 0 |
| FUN National Unity Front The National Unity Front is a political party in Bolivia.At the legislative elections in 2005, the party won 7.8 % of the popular vote and 8 out of 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 1 out of 27 seats in the Senate. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza,... -PID Institutional Democratic Party The Institutional Democratic Party was a Guatemalan pro-government political party active during the 1970s.The PID was formed in 1963 by Enrique Peralta Azurdia after he had seized power in a coup. A centre-right party, it was modelled on the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party. From the... |
12,368 | 0.85 | 0 | 11,798 | 0.69 | 0 | 0 |
| Authentic Integral Development Authentic Integral Development Authentic Integral Development was a political party in Guatemala.At the last legislative elections, held on 9 November 2003, the party won 3.0% of the popular vote and 1 out of 158 seats in Congress.... |
48,703 | 3.35 | 0 | 48,778 | 2.85 | 0 | 0 |
| National Historic Change | 14,119 | 0.97 | 0 | 16,732 | 0.98 | 0 | 0 |
| Guatemalan Democratic Party | 14,074 | 0.97 | 0 | 11,458 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 |
| DCG Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but... -PSD |
20,548 | 1.41 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| People's Party People's Party (Guatemala) The People's Party was a political party in Guatemala. The party was led by Jorge García Granados, and functioned as his personal political vehicle. García had been a leader in the 1944 October Revolution. The party opposed the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. It disappeared after the 1954 coup.... |
8,461 | 0.58 | 0 | 11,672 | 0.68 | 0 | 0 |
| DCG Guatemalan Christian Democracy The Guatemalan Christian Democracy , founded 24 August 1955, was a political party in Guatemala. It was a moderate reformist party, although also anti-Communist. It first won congressional seats in [Guatemalan parliamentary election, 1955|1955]]. In 1957, it contested presidential elections but... -UCN |
14,254 | 0.98 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Social Reformist Union | 3,635 | 0.25 | 0 | 3,402 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 |
| PCN-MPL | 1,897 | 0.13 | 0 | 2,102 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 |
| UD Democratic Union (Guatemala) The Democratic Union is a political party in Guatemala.At the legislative elections, 9 November 2003, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 158 seats... -PSD |
2,904 | 0.20 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Guatemalan Labor Party | 1,744 | 0.12 | 0 | 896 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 |
| Patriotic Movement Liberty | 2,574 | 0.18 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| UCN-PSD | 2,281 | 0.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Party of National Reconciliation | 860 | 0.06 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 211,492 | – | – | 261,212 | – | – | – |
| Total | 1,666,328 | 100 | 64 | 1,970,392 | 100 | 16 | 80 |