1958 Guatemalan general election

1958 Guatemalan general election

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Presidential election

Nominee Miguel Ydígoras José Luis Cruz Mario Méndez Party PRDN MDN Revolutionary Electoral vote 40 18 Popular vote 190,972 138,488 132,824 Percentage 40.80% 29.58% 28.37%

President before election Guillermo Flores Avendaño MLN President-elect Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes PRDN

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General elections were held in Guatemala on 19 January 1958 after the 1957 elections were nullified. After no candidate received 50% or more of the national vote, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was elected President by Congress on 12 February, whilst an alliance of the National Democratic Reconciliation Party, Nationalist Democratic Party, the Nationalist Liberal Party, the Democratic National Association and the National Anti-Communist Front won 40 of the 66 seats in Congress.