2019_Panamanian_general_election
General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2019.[3] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent President Juan Carlos Varela was ineligible for a second consecutive term.[4] Businessman and politician Laurentino Cortizo of the centre-left Democratic Revolutionary Party won the election with around 33% of the vote, narrowly defeating Rómulo Roux of the centre-right Democratic Change, who won 31% of the vote.
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All 71 seats in the National Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Of the 71 members of the National Assembly, 26 were elected in single-member constituencies and 45 by proportional representation in multi-member constituencies. Each district with more than 40,000 inhabitants formed a constituency. Constituencies elected one MP for every 30,000 residents and an additional representative for every fraction over 10,000.[5]
In single-member constituencies, MPs were elected using the first-past-the-post system. In multi-member constituencies MPs were elected using party list proportional representation according to a double quotient; the first allocation of seats used a simple quotient, further seats were allotted using the quotient divided by two, with any remaining seats are awarded to the parties with the greatest remainder.[5]
The President was elected through plurality vote in one round.
President
| Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurentino Cortizo | Joining Forces | Democratic Revolutionary Party | 609,638 | 31.03 | ||
| Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 45,664 | 2.32 | ||||
| Total | 655,302 | 33.35 | ||||
| Rómulo Roux | Change to Wake Up | Democratic Change | 564,297 | 28.72 | ||
| Alliance Party | 44,706 | 2.28 | ||||
| Total | 609,003 | 31.00 | ||||
| Ricardo Lombana | Independent | 368,962 | 18.78 | |||
| José Blandón | Panama We Can | Panameñista Party | 174,113 | 8.86 | ||
| People's Party | 38,818 | 1.98 | ||||
| Total | 212,931 | 10.84 | ||||
| Ana Matilde Gómez | Independent | 93,631 | 4.77 | |||
| Saúl Méndez | Broad Front for Democracy | 13,540 | 0.69 | |||
| Marco Ameglio | Independent | 11,408 | 0.58 | |||
| Total | 1,964,777 | 100.00 | ||||
| Valid votes | 1,964,777 | 97.58 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 48,656 | 2.42 | ||||
| Total votes | 2,013,433 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,757,823 | 73.01 | ||||
| Source: Election Tribunal | ||||||
National Assembly
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Revolutionary Party | 542,105 | 29.99 | 35 | +9 | |
| Democratic Change | 405,798 | 22.45 | 18 | –6 | |
| Panameñista Party | 312,635 | 17.30 | 8 | –8 | |
| Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 92,340 | 5.11 | 5 | +3 | |
| People's Party | 65,028 | 3.60 | 0 | –1 | |
| Alliance Party | 43,670 | 2.42 | 0 | –1 | |
| Broad Front for Democracy | 22,711 | 1.26 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 323,153 | 17.88 | 5 | +4 | |
| Total | 1,807,440 | 100.00 | 71 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 1,807,440 | 92.68 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 142,663 | 7.32 | |||
| Total votes | 1,950,103 | 100.00 | |||
| Source: Tribunal Electoral | |||||
- "REPUBLIC OF PANAMA - LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 5 MAY 2014". Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- "IFES Election Guide | Elections: Panama Parliament 2019". www.electionguide.org. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- "Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2018-11-18.