2023 Guatemalan general election

General elections will be held in Guatemala in 25 June 2023 to elect the President and Congress, with a second round of the presidential elections to be held in 20 August if no candidate wins a majority in the first round.

2023 Guatemalan general election
25 June 2023 (2023-06-25) (first round)
20 August 2023 (2023-08-20) (second round)
Presidential election
Incumbent President

Alejandro Giammattei
Vamos


Legislative election
PartyLeader Current seats
UNE Estuardo Vargas[lower-alpha 1] 33
Vamos Shirley Rivera 17
UCN[lower-alpha 2] Napoleón Rojas 12
Valor Lucrecia de Palomo 9
BIEN Fidel Reyes Lee 8
FCN Javier Hernández 8
Semilla Samuel Pérez Álvarez 7
Todos Felipe Alejos 7
VIVA Alexandra Ajcip 7
CREO Óscar Chinchilla 6
PHG Lecsan Mérida 6
Winaq Sonia Gutiérrez 4
Unionist Álvaro Arzú Escobar 3
PC Hernán Morán 3
URNG Walter Félix 3
Victoria Juan Carlos Rivera 2
PAN Manuel Conde 2
MLP Vicenta Jerónimo 1
Podemos Alejandro De León 1
GPO Oscar Argueta[lower-alpha 1] 19
Independents – 2
Incumbent President of the Congress
Shirley Rivera
Vamos
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Incumbent President Alejandro Giammattei is constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term.[1][2]

Guatemala's Election Formula

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

Congress

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

Potential candidates

Parliamentary parties
Name Ideology Political position 2019 result
Votes (%) Seats
UNE National Unity of Hope Social democracy Centre-left 17.92%
54 / 160
VAMOS Vamos Conservatism Right-wing 7.96%
17 / 160
UCN National Change Union[lower-alpha 2] Conservatism Right-wing 5.46%
12 / 160
VALOR Valor Conservatism Right-wing 4.55%
9 / 160
FCN National Convergence Front Nationalism Right-wing 5.23%
8 / 160
BIEN Bienestar Nacional Conservative liberalism Centre-right 4.79%
8 / 160
SEMILLA Movimiento Semilla Social democracy Centre-left 5.24%
7 / 160
VIVA Vision with Values Conservatism Right-wing 4.70%
7 / 160
TODOS Todos Conservatism Right-wing 4.39%
7 / 160
PHG Humanist Party Humanism Centre-right 4.66%
6 / 160
CREO Commitment, Renewal and Order Neoliberalism Centre-right 4.40%
6 / 160
WINAQ Winaq Progressivism Left-wing 3.50%
4 / 160
VICTORIA Victoria Conservatism Right-wing 2.51%
4 / 160
PC Citizen Prosperity Humanism Centre-right 3.29%
3 / 160
PU Unionist Party Conservatism Right-wing 2.93%
3 / 160
URNG Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity Democratic socialism Left-wing 2.78%
3 / 160
PAN National Advancement Party Conservatism Right-wing 2.72%
2 / 160
MLP Movement for the Liberation of Peoples Socialism Left-wing 2.98%
1 / 160
PODEMOS Podemos Conservatism Right-wing 1.68%
1 / 160

See also

Notes
  1. The party is divided into two factions: Sandra Torres' faction (33 deputies) and Oscar Argueta Mayén's faction (19 deputies)
  2. Party registration cancelled by the Electoral Tribunal in 2019

References
  1. Jimmy Morales dice que le gustaría gobernar otro período
  2. El presidente de Guatemala dice que le gustaría tener otro período de Gobierno
  3. Congress of the Republic IFES
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