General elections were held in Guatemala on 5 December 1926. The presidential election resulted in a victory for Lázaro Chacón González, who received 88.6% of the vote.[1] Whilst the elections were rigged,[2] the Progressive Liberal Party did manage to win some seats in the Congress.[3]
^Paul J. Dosal (1993) Doing business with the dictators: a political history of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, p64
^Andrew James Schlewitz (1999) The rise of a military state in Guatemala, 1931-1966 New York: New School University. Unpublished dissertation, p66