2019 Guatemala City mayoral election

2019 Guatemala City mayoral election

16 June 2019

Candidate Ricardo Quiñónez Roberto González Álvaro Véliz Party Unionist CREO Semilla Popular vote 167,985 152,932 42,417 Percentage 38.31% 34.87% 9.67%

Mayor before election Ricardo Quiñónez Unionist Elected Mayor Ricardo Quiñónez Unionist

The 2019 Guatemala City mayoral election was held on 16 June 2019.

The elections will be held next to the presidential, legislative, municipal and Central American Parliament elections. Twenty-three candidates were presented.

The current mayor Ricardo Quiñónez took office after the death of Álvaro Arzú, and is presented for the first time as a candidate for mayor and maintain the hegemony of the Unionist Party in Guatemala City.

The polls show a close contest between the opposition candidate Roberto González Díaz-Durán from the Commitment, Renewal and Order (CREO), which competes for the third time to win the mayor's office and the current mayor Ricardo Quiñónez Lemus of Unionist Party.

They are followed by Álvaro Véliz of Semilla, Luis García of Fuerza and Fernando Sánchez of the National Unity of Hope.

In this election, they are also elected to titular and alternate councilors who will make up the Municipal Council of Guatemala City.

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages.

The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font.

Polling firm/Commissioner	Fieldwork date	Sample size	Avendaño PHG	Brolo Vamos	García Fuerza	González CREO	Marroquín EG	Quiñónez Unionist	Sánchez UNE	Véliz Semilla	Others	None	Lead
CID-Gallup	1–7 June	1,388	1.0	1.0	1.0	28.9	1.0	32.7	3.7	3.4	8.7	17.9	3.8
Prodatos	24–29 May	506	0.4	1.4	3.5	24.9	1.6	38.5	2.8	4.1	9.6	13.2	13.6
Demoscopia	31 May	600	—	—	0.7	25.6	—	39.8	—	0.7	7.0	27.1	13.3
OPol Consultores	20–23 May	2,200	1.4	1.3	1.2	20.0	10.0	38.0	—	1.0	0.2	26.9	18.0
Borges y Asociados	12–16 May	600	—	—	—	40.1	—	37.2	—	—	—	22.6	2.9
Borges y Asociados	12–16 May	600	1.6	1.8	0.6	32.7	0.9	28	—	2.8	4.5	27.1	4.7
Demoscopia	9–11 May	600	—	—	2.5	22.2	—	36.2	—	4.6	8.9	25.6	14.0
Borges y Asociados	14–17 April	600	—	—	—	37.6	—	31.4	—	—	—	30.9	6.2
Borges y Asociados	14–17 April	600	1.3	1.2	1.2	36.9	2.0	31.4	—	1.0	0.4	24.6	5.5
Borges y Asociados	14–17 February	600	—	—	—	31.7	—	29.3	—	—	—	39	2.4

Results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ricardo Quiñónez	Unionist Party	167,985	38.31
	Roberto González	Commitment, Renewal and Order	152,932	34.87
	Álvaro Véliz	Semilla	42,417	9.67
	Moisés Abraham Fialko	Vision with Values	10,667	2.43
	Pedro Brolo	Vamos	9,527	2.17
	Alfonso García	Fuerza	8,680	1.98
	Carlos Avendaño	Humanist Party of Guatemala	7,794	1.78
	Gonzalo Marroquín	Encuentro por Guatemala	7,459	1.70
	Fernando Sánchez	National Unity of Hope	7,012	1.60
	Ofelia Rodríguez	Libre	5,013	1.14
	Alberto "Beto" Valladares	National Change Union	3,788	0.86
	Noé Solares	Productivity and Work Party	3,416	0.78
	Eduardo Prado	Todos	3,049	0.70
	Hugo Bollat	National Convergence Front	2,058	0.47
	Flor de María Alvarado	Victory	1,981	0.45
	Rokael Cardona	Convergence	1,671	0.38
	Arturo Herrera	Citizen Prosperity	1,583	0.36
	Rubén García	National Welfare	1,509	0.34
Total			438,541	100.00
Source: TSE