General elections were held in Guatemala

Guatemala

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 on 7 March 1982. 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...

, 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

Military of Guatemala

The Military of Guatemala consists of National Army of Guatemala , the Guatemalan Navy and the Guatemalan Air Force ....

-led coup d'état

Coup d'état

A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...

 on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta

Military dictatorship

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 of General Efraín Ríos Montt

Efraín Ríos Montt

José Efraín Ríos Montt is a former de facto President of Guatemala, dictator, army general, and former president of Congress. In the 2003 presidential elections, he unsuccessfully ran as the candidate of the ruling Guatemalan Republican Front .Huehuetenango-born Ríos Montt remains one of the most...

, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

Voter turnout was 45.83% in the presidential election.

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
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...	Popular Democratic Front¹	379,051	38.86
Mario Sandoval Alarcón Mario Sandoval Alarcón Mario Sandoval Alarcón was a Guatemalan politician. He is the founder in 1960 of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional . In 1954, he helped support colonel Carlos Castillo's coup against Jacobo Arbenz....	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....	275,487	28.24
Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre	National Opposition Union²	221,810	22.74
Gustavo Anzueto Vielnam	Nationalist Authentic Centre	99,047	10.15
Invalid/blank votes		103,997
Total		1,079,392	100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The Popular Democratic Front was an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party

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...

, the Revolutionary Party and the National Unity Front

National Unity Front

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.

² the National Opposing Union was an alliance of 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...

 and the National Renewal Party.

Congress

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Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/-
Popular Democratic Front			33
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....			21
National Opposition Union³			9
Nationalist Authentic Centre			3	New
Invalid/blank votes
Total			66	+5

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