2019 Panamanian general election

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2019 Panamanian general election

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Presidential election
  Laurentino Cortizo (cropped).jpg Romulo Roux (cropped).jpg
Candidate Laurentino Cortizo Rómulo Roux
Party PRD CD
Running mate Jose Gabriel Carrizo Luis Casis
popular vote 655,302 609,003
Percentage 33.35% 31.00%

  Jose Isabel Blandon.jpg
Candidate Ricardo Lombana José Blandón
Party Independent Panameñista
Running mate Guillermo Márquez Nilda Quijano Peña
popular vote 368,962 212,931
Percentage 18.78% 10.84%

Percentage of vote share of the 2019 Panama Presidential election.[1]

President before election

Juan Carlos Varela
Panameñista

Elected President

Laurentino Cortizo
PRD

Legislative election

All 71 seats in the National Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/–
National Assembly
PRD 29.99 35 +9
CD Rómulo Roux 22.45 18 -6
Panameñista 17.30 8 -8
MOLIRENA 5.11 5 +3
Independents 17.88 5 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results by circuit[2][3]

General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2019.[4] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent President Juan Carlos Varela was ineligible for a second consecutive term.[5] 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.

Electoral system[]

Of the 71 members of the National Assembly, 26 will be elected in single-member constituencies and 45 by proportional representation in multi-member constituencies. Each district with more than 40,000 inhabitants forms a constituency. Constituencies elect one MP for every 30,000 residents and an additional representative for every fraction over 10,000.[6]

In single-member constituencies MPs are elected using the first-past-the-post system. In multi-member constituencies MPs are elected using party list proportional representation according to a double quotient; the first allocation of seats uses a simple quotient, further seats are allotted using the quotient divided by two, with any remaining seats are awarded to the parties with the greatest remainder.[6]

The President is elected through plurality vote in one round.

Opinion polls[]

Pollster Date Cortizo (PRD) Roux (CD) Lombana (IND)
Gallup Panama[7] 17–21 March 2019 38% 21% 4%
GAD3 29–30 April 2019 36% 26% 20%
Doxa Panamá 23–28 April 2019 30% 32% 15%
Stratmark 22–28 April 2019 44% 27% 10%

Results[]

President[]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Laurentino CortizoDemocratic Revolutionary Party655,30233.35
Rómulo RouxDemocratic Change609,00331.00
Ricardo LombanaIndependent368,96218.78
José BlandónPanameñista Party212,93110.84
Ana Matilde GómezIndependent93,6314.77
Saúl MéndezBroad Front for Democracy13,5400.69
Marco AmeglioIndependent11,4080.58
Total1,964,777100.00
Valid votes1,964,77797.58
Invalid/blank votes48,6562.42
Total votes2,013,433100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,757,82373.01
Source: Election Tribunal

National Assembly[]

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Democratic Revolutionary Party542,10529.9935+9
Democratic Change405,79822.4518–6
Panameñista Party312,63517.308–8
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement92,3405.115+3
People's Party65,0283.600–1
Alliance Party43,6702.420–1
Broad Front for Democracy22,7111.2600
Independents323,15317.885+4
Total1,807,440100.00710
Valid votes1,807,44092.68
Invalid/blank votes142,6637.32
Total votes1,950,103100.00
Source: Tribunal Electoral

References[]

  1. ^ Gonzalez, Elizabeth. "3 Charts on Panama's General Elections". AS/COA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ^ "REPUBLIC OF PANAMA - LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 5 MAY 2014". Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ^ "IFES Election Guide | Elections: Panama Parliament 2019". www.electionguide.org. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  4. ^ Panama IFES
  5. ^ "Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  6. ^ a b Electoral system IPU
  7. ^ "Poll Tracker: Panama's 2019 Presidential Election".
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