1948 Guatemalan parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Guatemala between 26 and 28 November 1948 in order to elect half the seats in Congress. The National Renovation Party-Revolutionary Action Party alliance won the most seats, but the Popular Liberation Front remained the largest party.

Results

Party		Seats
		Won	Total
	PRN–PAR	14	24
	Popular Liberation Front	9	27
	Workers Republican–Democratic Party	7	9
	Patriotic Union	4	4
	Independents	0	1
Vacant		–	3
Total		34	68
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Bibliography

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• Political handbook of the world 1948. New York, 1949.
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• Gleijeses, Piero. 1991. Shattered hope. The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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