2019 Guatemalan general election

2019 Guatemalan general election

June 16, 2019 (first round) August 11, 2019 (second round)

Opinion polls

Presidential election

150x150px 150x150px Nominee Alejandro Giammattei Sandra Torres Party Vamos UNE Running mate Guillermo Castillo Carlos Raúl Morales Popular vote 1,907,696 1,384,005 Percentage 57.95% 42.05%

President before election Jimmy Morales FCN Elected President Alejandro Giammattei Vamos

Legislative election Party Leader % Seats ± UNE 17.92 52 Vamos 7.96 17 UCN 5.46 12 Valor (political party) 4.55 9 BIEN 4.79 8 FCN 5.23 8 Semilla (Guatemala) 5.24 7 Todos 4.39 7 VIVA 4.70 7 CREO 4.40 6 PHG 4.66 6 Winaq 3.50 4 Victoria 2.51 4 Citizen Prosperity 3.29 3 Unionist Party (Guatemala) 2.93 3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Congress before President of the Congress after Álvaro Arzú Escobar Unionist TBD

General elections were held in Guatemala on June 16, 2019, to elect the President, Congress and local councils. A second round of the presidential elections was held on August 11, 2019, since no candidate won a majority in the first round. Alejandro Giammattei won the election in the second round of voting.

Incumbent President Jimmy Morales was constitutionally barred from running for a second four-year term.

Electoral system

The President of Guatemala is elected using the two-round system.

The 160 members of Congress are elected by two methods; 130 are elected from 22 multi-member constituencies based on the departments, with the remaining 31 elected from a single nationwide constituency. Seats are elected using closed list Proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method.

Candidates

Thelma Aldana's candidature was rejected by authorities on April 2019 on the grounds of alleged corruption cases concerning her. She denies the accusations and attributes them to what she calls the "pact of the corrupt", composed of politicians and business leaders of the country. As former Attorney General, she had uncovered several major corruption cases. Aldana appealed the ruling, but the ruling was rejected on May 2019.

The candidature of Zury Ríos, daughter of Guatemalan dictator from 1982 to 1983 Efraín Ríos Montt, was rejected by authorities on May 2019 on the grounds that the country's constitution bars close relatives of coup leaders from serving as president.

In April 2019, centre-right candidate Mario Estrada was arrested. He is accused by the American authorities of having made a deal with the Sinaloa cartel - from which he allegedly obtained between 10 and 12 million dollars for his election campaign - and of having ordered the murder of rival candidates.

Party			Presidential candidate		Vice Presidential candidate
style="background-color:Template:PAN-Podemos/meta/color;" |	25px25px	PAN–P	100px	Roberto Arzú	100px	José Antonio Farias
	50px	Todos	100px	Fredy Cabrera	100px	Ricardo Sagastume
	50px	MLP	100px	Thelma Cabrera	100px	Neftalí López
	50px	URNG	100px	Pablo Ceto	100px	Blanca Estela Colop
	50px	PPT	100px	José Luis Chea	100px	Mario Guillermo González
	50px	PU	100px	Pablo Duarte	100px	Roberto Villeda
	50px	CREO	100px	Julio Héctor Estrada	100px	Yara Argueta
	50px	VIVA	100px	Isaac Farchi Sultán	100px	Ricardo Flores Asturias
	50px	FCN	100px	Estuardo Galdámez	100px	Betty Marroquín Silva
	50px	Libre	100px	Aníbal García	100px	Carlos Pérez
	50px	Vamos	100px	Alejandro Giammattei	100px	Guillermo Castillo
	50px	EG	100px	Manfredo Marroquín	100px	Oscar Adolfo Morales
	50px	C	100px	Benito Morales	100px	Claudia Mariana Valiente
	50px	PHG	100px	Edmond Mulet	100px	Jorge Pérez
	50px	Victoria	100px	Amílcar Rivera	100px	Erico Can Saquic
	50px	Avanza	100px	Danilo Roca Barillas	100px	Manuel Martínez
	50px	UNE	100px	Sandra Torres	100px	Carlos Raúl Morales
	50px	Unidos	100px	Luis Velásquez Quiroga	100px	Arturo Soto
	50px	Winaq	100px	Manuel Villacorta	100px	Izabel Hernández

Declined candidates

• Manuel Baldizón: deputy of the Congress 2004-2008, secretary-general of Renewed Democratic Liberty 2010-2014, presidential candidate in 2011 and 2015.
• Ernest Steve "Neto" Bran: Mayor of Mixco since 2016.
• Jorge Pérez: Secretary of Executive Coordination of the Presidency 2000-2002.
• Erik Súñiga: Mayor of Ayutla, San Marcos, 2008-2020.
• Nineth Montenegro: Deputy of the Congress by National List since 1996, Second Vice President of the Congress 2012-2013, General Secretary of the Encuentro de Guatemala since 2007.

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2019 Guatemalan general election

Debates

2019 Guatemalan general election debates
Date	Organisers	Moderator(s)	P  Present    P  Present but his candidacy was revoked   NI  Non-invitee   A  Absent invitee
			Arzú PAN–P	Escobar PC	Estrada CREO	Giammattei Vamos	Mulet PHG	Torres UNE
			style="background:Template:PAN-Podemos/meta/color;"|	style="background:Template:Citizen Prosperity/meta/color;"|	style="background:Template:Commitment, Renewal and Order/meta/color;"|
2 June	AGG	Luis Felipe Valenzuela Marielos Fuentes	P	P	P	P	P	A
28 July	AGG	Luis Felipe Valenzuela Marielos Fuentes				P		A

Preliminary results

Unless otherwise stated, all results are with 99% of ballot boxes counted.

President

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Alejandro Giammattei	Vamos	613,302	13.95	1,907,696	57.95
	Sandra Torres	National Unity of Hope	1,122,630	25.54	1,384,005	42.05
	Edmond Mulet	Humanist Party of Guatemala	492,799	11.21
	Thelma Cabrera	Movement for the Liberation of Peoples	455,874	10.37
bgcolor="Template:PAN-Podemos/meta/color"|	Roberto Arzú	National Advancement Party–Podemos	267,256	6.08
	Isaac Farchi	Vision with Values	259,288	5.90
	Manuel Villacorta	Winaq	229,466	5.22
	Estuardo Galdámez	National Convergence Front	180,983	4.12
	Julio Héctor Estrada	Commitment, Renewal and Order	164,722	3.75
	Fredy Cabrera	Todos	137,769	3.13
	Amílcar Rivera	Victoria	111,734	2.54
	Pablo Ceto	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	94,810	2.16
	Pablo Duarte	Unionist Party	63,018	1.43
	Manfredo Marroquín	Encuentro por Guatemala	50,298	1.14
	Aníbal García	Libre	41,672	0.95
	Benito Morales	Convergence	37,724	0.86
	Luis Velásquez	Unidos	26,990	0.61
	José Luis Chea Urruela	Productivity and Work Party	23,893	0.54
	Danilo Roca	Avanza	21,179	0.48
Invalid/blank votes			667,460	–		–
Total			5,062,867	100	3,291,701	100
Registered voters/turnout			8,150,221	62.12		40.39
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal (both rounds preliminaries, 99% counted)

Popular vote (first round)
Torres			25.73%
Giammattei			13.89%
Mulet			11.15%
T. Cabrera			10.42%
Arzú G.			6.07%
Farchi			5.86%
Villacorta			5.17%
Galdámez			4.14%
J. H. Estrada			3.70%
Others			13.87%

Legislative

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Party		National List			Districts			Total seats	+/−
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
	National Unity of Hope	724,517	17.92	7			47	54	+26
	Vamos	321,830	7.96	3			13	16	New
	National Change Union	220,728	5.46	2			10	12	+6
	Valor	184,155	4.55	1			8	9	New
	National Convergence Front	211,453	5.23	2			6	8	–27
	Bienestar Nacional	193,604	4.79	2			6	8	+8
	Semilla	212,012	5.24	2			5	7	New
	Vision with Values	189,862	4.70	2			5	7	+3
	Todos	177,307	4.39	1			6	7	–9
	Humanist Party of Guatemala	188,327	4.66	2			4	6	New
	Commitment, Renewal and Order	178,057	4.40	1			5	6	+1
	Winaq	141,394	3.50	1			3	4	+3
	Citizen Prosperity	132,968	3.29	1			2	3	New
	Victoria	101,676	2.51	1			2	3	+3
	Unionist Party	118,648	2.93	1			2	3	+2
	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	112,489	2.78	1			2	3	+2
	National Advancement Party	110,080	2.72	1			1	2	–1
	Movement for the Liberation of Peoples	120,448	2.98	1			0	1	New
	Podemos	67,910	1.68	0			1	1	–11
	Fuerza	77,999	1.93	0			0	0	–1
	Encuentro por Guatemala	70,490	1.79	0			0	0	–6
	Convergence	49,463	1.22	0			0	0	–3
	Libre	47,826	1.18	0			0	0	New
	Avanza	34,983	0.87	0			0	0	New
	Productivity and Work Party	29,582	0.73	0			0	0	New
	Unidos	25,662	0.63	0			0	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		1,084,182	–	–		–	–	–	–
Total		5,127,244	100	32		100	128	160	+2
Registered voters/turnout		8,086,526	62.64	–			–	–	–
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal

Central American Parliament

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Party		Votes	%	Seats	±
	National Unity of Hope	633,443	19.00	5	+1
	Vamos	298,080	8.94	2	New
	National Change Union	228,293	6.85	2	+1
	National Convergence Front	213,871	6.41	2	N/A
	Valor	178,601	5.36	1	New
	Bienestar Nacional	176,176	5.28	1	+1
	Todos	172,741	5.18	1	-1
	Commitment, Renewal and Order	166,078	4.98	1	+1
	Vision with Values	161,982	4.86	1	N/A
	Citizen Prosperity	136,366	4.09	1	New
	Winaq	115,357	3.46	1	+1
	Semilla	108,667	3.26	1	New
	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	106,786	3.20	1	N/A
	Victoria	101,134	3.03	0	New
	National Advancement Party	99,434	2.98	0	N/A
	Unionist Party	93,448	2.80	0	-1
	Fuerza	81,222	2.44	0	N/A
	Podemos	64,803	1.94	0	N/A
	Encuentro por Guatemala	56,555	1.70	0	-1
	Convergence	49,586	1.49	0	N/A
	Avanza	46,615	1.40	0	New
	Libre	41,586	1.25	0	New
	Unidos	21,604	0.65	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		1,795,648	–	–	–
Total		5,129,889	100	20	+2
Registered voters/turnout		8,086,526	62.5	–	–
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal

Municipal

See also: 2019 Guatemala City mayoral election, 2019 Quetzaltenango mayoral election, 2019 Villa Nueva mayoral election, 2019 Mixco mayoral election, 2019 Escuintla mayoral election, and 2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election

Party		C.	M.	%	±
	National Advancement Party	41
	Valor	156			New
	Todos	161
	Podemos	76
	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	75
	National Unity of Hope	314
	Unionist Party	111
	Bienestar Nacional	130
	National Change Union	206
	Encuentro por Guatemala	58
	Vision with Values	115
	National Convergence Front	205
	Convergence	57
	Commitment, Renewal and Order	132
	Victoria	59
	Winaq	54
	Fuerza	152
	Unidos	44			New
	Productivity and Work Party	36			New
	Vamos	255			New
	Avanza	47			New
	Humanist Party of Guatemala	123			New
	Movement for the Liberation of Peoples	109			New
	Citizen Prosperity	120			New
	Semilla	143			New
	Libre	69			New
	Civic committees	121			–
Total		3,169	340	100	0
Source: Supreme Electoral Tribunal

External links

• Tribunal Supremo Electoral (Spanish)