1982 Guatemalan general election

1982 Guatemalan general election
7 March 1982
Presidential election
 
Nominee Aníbal Guevara Mario Sandoval
Party FPD MLN
Running mate Ramiro Ponce Leonel Sisniega
Electoral vote 34 0
Popular vote 379,051 275,487
Percentage 38.86% 28.24%
President before election

Romeo Lucas García
PID-PR-CAO

President after election

Results annulled
(Ángel Aníbal Guevara overthrown by military junta)

General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982. Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July. However, the elections were widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General Horacio Maldonado Schaad, and Colonel Francisco Luis Gordillo Martínez.

Voter turnout was 45.83% in the presidential election.

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