1948 Guatemalan parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala between 26 and 28 November 1948 in order to elect half the seats in Congress. The National Renovation Party-Revolutionary Action Party alliance won the most seats, but the Popular Liberation Front remained the largest party.
Results
edit| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Total | |||||
| PRN–PAR | 14 | 24 | ||||
| Popular Liberation Front | 9 | 27 | ||||
| Workers Republican–Democratic Party | 7 | 9 | ||||
| Patriotic Union | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Independents | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Vacant | – | 3 | ||||
| Total | 34 | 68 | ||||
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Bibliography
edit- Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
- Political handbook of the world 1948. New York, 1949.
- 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.
- 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.