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August 1920 Guatemalan presidential election

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27 August 1920

1921 →

President before election

Carlos Herrera
PU–PD

President-elect

Carlos Herrera
PU–PD

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Presidential elections were held in Guatemala on 27 August 1920. The result was a victory for Carlos Herrera, who received 95% of the vote.

Results[edit]


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Carlos Herrera	Unionist Party–Democratic Party	246,976	94.59
	José León Castillo	Republican Party	7,948	3.04
	Francisco Fuentes	West Republican Party–Constitutionalist Liberal Party	5,983	2.29
53 other candidates			204	0.08
Total			261,111	100.00

Source: Moore, Lloyd Jones

Caida de una tiranía. Páginas de la historia de Centro América. Guatemala: Impreso en los Talleres Sánchez. Moore, Clement Henry. 1965.
Campang Chang, José. El estado y los partidos políticos en Guatemala. 1944–1951. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos. 1992.
Díaz Romeu, Guillermo. “ Del régimen de Carlos Herrera a la elección de Jorge Ubico.” Historia general de Guatemala. 1993–1999. Guatemala: Asociación de Amigos del País, Fundación para la Cultura y el Desarrollo. Volume 5. 1996.
Grandin, Greg. The last colonial massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004.
Jones, Chester Lloyd. Guatemala, past and present. New York: Russell and Russell. (Reprint of 1940 edition). 1966.

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Referendums	1935 1994 1999 2018
See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America