Nineteen candidates will compete in the election, which is expected to yield no outright winner, forcing the top two vote getters to face off in a second round on Aug. 11.

TV comic and self-styled outsider Jimmy Morales was elected as Guatemala's next president in a landslide Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger against the political class.

A TV comic holds a commanding lead in in Sunday's presidential election in Guatemala, where public anger at corruption unseated the last government and will confront the winner with immediate demands for deep reform.