Election Name: | 1954 Paraguayan general election |
Country: | Paraguay |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1953 Paraguayan general election |
Previous Year: | 1953 |
Election Date: | 11 July 1954 |
Next Election: | 1958 Paraguayan general election |
Next Year: | 1958 |
Candidate1: | Alfredo Stroessner |
Party1: | Colorado Party (Paraguay) |
Popular Vote1: | 236,191 |
Percentage1: | 100% |
President | |
Before Party: | Colorado Party (Paraguay) |
Posttitle: | President-elect |
After Election: | Alfredo Stroessner |
After Party: | Colorado Party (Paraguay) |
Presidential elections were held in Paraguay on 11 July 1954,[1] following a military coup on 8 May 1954 which toppled Federico Chávez who had been re-elected the previous year. At the time, the Colorado Party was the only legally permitted party. Alfredo Stroessner, who had led the coup, ran as the Colorado candidate in a special election for the remainder of Chávez' term, and was elected unopposed.[2] [3] [4]
This was the first of Stroessner's eight consecutive election victories.[5]