User:Coeusin/1950 Paraguayan general election

General elections were held in Paraguay on 15 February 1953. At the time, the Colorado Party was the only legally permitted party. As such, incumbent president candidate Federico Chaves was re-elected unopposed.

Chaves would only stay in office for a little over a year before he was overthrown in a May 1954 coup led by General Alfredo Stroessner, who was elected his successor in a special election in July.