2019 Guatemalan general election

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2019 Guatemalan general election

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Opinion polls

Presidential election

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

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

First round results by municipality First round results by department Second round results by municipality Second round results by department

President before election Jimmy Morales FCN Elected President Alejandro Giammattei Vamos

Legislative election

All 160 seats in Congress 81 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– UNE Orlando Blanco 17.81 52 +24 Vamos Carlos Roberto Calderón 7.97 17 New UCN Julio Lainfiesta 5.44 12 +6 Valor Luis Alfonso Rosales 4.56 9 New BIEN Evelyn Morataya 4.82 8 +8 FCN Javier Hernández 5.22 8 −27 Semilla Lucrecia Hernández Mack 5.26 7 New Todos Felipe Alejos 4.40 7 −9 VIVA Armando Castillo 4.70 7 +3 CREO Adela de Torrebiarte 4.41 6 +1 PHG Lecsan Mérida 4.67 6 New Winaq Sonia Gutiérrez 3.51 4 +3 Victoria Juan Carlos Rivera 2.52 4 +4 PC Jorge García Silva 3.27 3 New Unionist Álvaro Arzú Escobar 2.94 3 +2 URNG Osmundo Ponce Serrano 2.78 3 +2 PAN Manuel Conde Orellana 2.73 2 −1 MLP Vicenta Jerónimo 3.02 1 New Podemos Ronald Sierra 1.68 1 −11 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by department President of the Congress before President of the Congress after Álvaro Arzú Escobar Unionist Allan Rodríguez Vamos

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General elections were held in Guatemala on 16 June 2019, to elect the president, Congress and local councils. A second round of the presidential elections was held on 11 August 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.^[1][2]