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.

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

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]

Thelma Aldana's candidature was rejected by authorities in April 2019 on the grounds of alleged corruption cases concerning her, although no evidence was presented. She denied 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]

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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		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

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