Tomás Romero Pereira (interim) Colorado Alfredo Stroessner Colorado 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] This Paraguayan elections-related article is a stub.