2019 Guatemalan general election

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.

2019 Guatemalan general election

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

Opinion polls

Presidential election

Nominee Alejandro Giammattei Sandra Torres Party Vamos UNE Running mate Guillermo Castillo Carlos Raúl Morales States carried 15 8 Popular vote 1,907,767 1,384,044 Percentage 57.95% 42.05%

President before election Jimmy Morales FCN Elected President Alejandro Giammattei Vamos

Legislative election

Party Leader % Seats ± UNE Orlando Blanco 17.92 52 +24 Vamos Carlos Roberto Calderón 7.96 17 New UCN Julio Lainfiesta 5.46 12 +6 Valor Luis Alfonso Rosales 4.55 9 New BIEN Evelyn Morataya 4.79 8 +8 FCN Javier Hernández 5.23 8 -27 Semilla Lucrecia Hernández Mack Samuel Perez Alvarez 5.24 7 New Todos Felipe Alejos 4.39 7 -9 VIVA Armando Castillo 4.70 7 +3 CREO Adela de Torrebiarte 4.40 6 +1 PHG Lecsan Mérida 4.66 6 New Winaq Sonia Gutiérrez 3.50 4 +3 Victoria Juan Carlos Rivera 2.51 4 +4 PC Adolfo García 3.29 3 New Unionist Party Álvaro Arzú Escobar 2.93 3 +2 URNG–MAIZ Gregorio Chay 2.78 3 +2 PAN Manuel Conde Orellana 2.72 2 -1 MLP Vicenta Jerónimo 2.98 1 New Podemos Ronald Sierra 1.68 1 -11 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 Allan Rodríguez Vamos

Incumbent President Jimmy Morales was constitutionally barred from running for a second four-year term.[1][2]

Electoral system

The President of Guatemala is elected using the two-round system.[3]

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.[3]

Candidates

Thelma Aldana's candidature was rejected by authorities in 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.[4] Aldana appealed the ruling, but the appeal was rejected in May 2019.[5]

The candidature of Zury Ríos, daughter of Guatemalan dictator from 1982 to 1983 Efraín Ríos Montt, was rejected by authorities in May 2019 on the grounds that the country's constitution bars close relatives of coup leaders from serving as president.[6][7]

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.[8]

Party			Presidential candidate		Vice Presidential candidate
		PAN–P		Roberto Arzú		José Antonio Farias
		Todos		Fredy Cabrera		Ricardo Sagastume
		MLP		Thelma Cabrera		Neftalí López
		URNG		Pablo Ceto[9]		Blanca Estela Colop
		PPT		José Luis Chea		Mario Guillermo González
		PU		Pablo Duarte[10][11]		Roberto Villeda
		CREO		Julio Héctor Estrada[12][13]		Yara Argueta
		VIVA		Isaac Farchi Sultán		Ricardo Flores Asturias
		FCN		Estuardo Galdámez [14][15]		Betty Marroquín Silva
		Libre		Aníbal García[16][17]		Carlos Pérez
		Vamos		Alejandro Giammattei[18] [19][20]		Guillermo Castillo
		EG		Manfredo Marroquín		Oscar Adolfo Morales
		C		Benito Morales[21][22]		Claudia Mariana Valiente
		PHG		Edmond Mulet		Jorge Pérez
		Victoria		Amílcar Rivera		Erico Can Saquic
		Avanza		Danilo Roca Barillas		Manuel Martínez
		UNE		Sandra Torres[19][23]		Carlos Raúl Morales
		Unidos		Luis Velásquez Quiroga		Arturo Soto
		Winaq		Manuel Villacorta[24][25][26]		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.[27]
• Ernest Steve "Neto" Bran: Mayor of Mixco since 2016.[28][29]
• Jorge Pérez: Secretary of Executive Coordination of the Presidency 2000-2002.[19]
• Erik Súñiga: Mayor of Ayutla, San Marcos, 2008-2020.[19]
• 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

First round

Second round

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
2 June	AGG	Luis Felipe Valenzuela Marielos Fuentes	P	P	P	P	P	A
28 July	AGG	Luis Felipe Valenzuela Marielos Fuentes				P		A

Results

President

Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Sandra Torres	Carlos Raúl Morales	National Unity of Hope	1,112,939	25.42	1,384,044	42.05
	Alejandro Giammattei	Guillermo Castillo Reyes	Vamos	608,083	13.89	1,907,767	57.95
	Edmond Mulet	Jorge Pérez	Humanist Party of Guatemala	493,710	11.28
	Thelma Cabrera	Neftalí López	Movement for the Liberation of Peoples	452,260	10.33
	Roberto Arzú	José Antonio Farias	National Advancement Party–Podemos	267,049	6.10
	Isaac Farchi	Ricardo Flores Asturias	Vision with Values	259,616	5.93
	Manuel Villacorta	Izabel Hernández	Winaq	229,362	5.24
	Estuardo Galdámez	Betty Marroquín Silva	National Convergence Front	180,414	4.12
	Julio Héctor Estrada	Yara Argueta	Commitment, Renewal and Order	165,031	3.77
	Fredy Cabrera	Ricardo Sagastume	Todos	138,333	3.16
	Amílcar Rivera	Erico Can Saquic	Victory	111,998	2.56
	Pablo Ceto	Blanca Estela Colop	Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity	94,531	2.16
	Pablo Duarte	Roberto Villeda	Unionist Party	62,679	1.43
	Manfredo Marroquín	Oscar Adolfo Morales	Encuentro por Guatemala	50,594	1.16
	Aníbal García	Carlos Pérez	Libre	41,800	0.95
	Benito Morales	Claudia Mariana Valiente	Convergence	37,579	0.86
	Luis Velásquez Quiroa	Arturo Soto	Unidos	26,921	0.61
	José Luis Chea Urruela	Mario Guillermo González	Productivity and Work Party	23,962	0.55
	Danilo Roca	Manuel Martínez	Avanza	21,410	0.49
Total				4,378,271	100.00	3,291,811	100.00
Valid votes				4,378,271	86.86	3,291,811	94.68
Invalid/blank votes				662,152	13.14	184,947	5.32
Total votes				5,040,423	100.00	3,476,758	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				8,150,221	61.84	8,150,221	42.66
Source: TSE, TSE

Congress

Result of the legislative election.

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 (99% counted)

Central American Parliament

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

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

Notes

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External links

• Tribunal Supremo Electoral (in Spanish)