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Presidential election |
| | | Candidate | Laurentino Cortizo | Rómulo Roux | Party | PRD | CD | Alliance | Joining Forces | Change to Wake Up | Running mate | Jose Gabriel Carrizo | Luis Casis | Popular vote | 655,302 | 609,003 | Percentage | 33.35% | 31.00% | | | | | Candidate | Ricardo Lombana | José Blandón | Party | Independent | Panameñista | Alliance | | Panama We Can | Running mate | Guillermo Márquez | Nilda Quijano Peña | Popular vote | 368,962 | 212,931 | Percentage | 18.78% | 10.84% | |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Panama_2019_Presidential_Election_Vote_Share_Map.png/300px-Panama_2019_Presidential_Election_Vote_Share_Map.png) Results by province |
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 |
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
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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. The PRD also won a majority in the National Assembly.[5] The ruling Panameñista Party of President Juan Carlos Varela suffered its worst result in history.[6] Its candidate, Panama City mayor José Isabel Blandón, received only 11% of the vote and came in fourth behind independent candidate Ricardo Lombana.[5] The party also lost half its seats in the National Assembly.[6]
Background
Incumbent President Juan Carlos Varela was elected in 2014 with 39% of the vote.[7] Polls showed him to be the second most unpopular president in Latin America by 2018, with a 57% disapproval rating.[8]
Corruption became a major issue during the campaign,[9] being the first election held after the Panama Papers leak, which exposed the extent of the country's involvement in tax evasion.[10] Investigations into mass bribery by the Brazilian company Odebrecht also took place during the preceding presidential term,[11] with the presidential administrations of Martín Torrijos, Ricardo Martinelli, and Juan Carlos Varela all being subject to scrutiny.[12] Martinelli was also investigated for wiretapping political opponents,[13] which resulted in his being disqualified in his campaigns for Assembly deputy and Panama City mayor.[14]
Electoral system
The President was elected through plurality vote in one round.
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.[15]
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.[15]
Opinion polls
Pollster | Date | Cortizo (PRD) | Roux (CD) | Lombana (IND) |
Gallup Panama[16] | 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
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % |
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| 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 |
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Valid votes | 1,964,777 | 97.58 |
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Invalid/blank votes | 48,656 | 2.42 |
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Total votes | 2,013,433 | 100.00 |
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Registered voters/turnout | 2,757,823 | 73.01 |
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Source: Election Tribunal |
National Assembly
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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| 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 |
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Valid votes | 1,807,440 | 92.68 | |
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Invalid/blank votes | 142,663 | 7.32 | |
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Total votes | 1,950,103 | 100.00 | |
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Source: Tribunal Electoral |
Elected members
Mayoral elections
Panama City
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % |
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| José Luis Fábrega | Joining Forces | | Democratic Revolutionary Party | 156,095 | 37.87 |
| Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 19,260 | 4.67 |
Total | 175,355 | 42.55 |
| Sergio Gálvez | Change to Wake Up | | Democratic Change | 117,476 | 28.50 |
| Alliance Party | 11,343 | 2.75 |
Total | 128,819 | 31.25 |
| Raúl Ricardo Rodriguez | Independent | 56,638 | 13.74 |
| Adolfo Valderrama | Panama We Can | | Panameñista Party | 32,962 | 8.00 |
| People's Party | 10,302 | 2.50 |
Total | 43,264 | 10.50 |
| Diogenes Sanchez | Broad Front for Democracy | 8,081 | 1.96 |
Total | 412,157 | 100.00 |
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Valid votes | 412,157 | 94.37 |
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Invalid/blank votes | 24,595 | 5.63 |
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Total votes | 436,752 | 100.00 |
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Source: Election Tribunal |
San Miguelito
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % |
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| Hector Carrasquilla | Change to Wake Up | | Democratic Change | 51,664 | 33.56 |
| Alliance Party | 5,872 | 3.81 |
Total | 57,536 | 37.38 |
| Cesar Sanjur | Joining Forces | | Democratic Revolutionary Party | 36,693 | 23.84 |
| Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 5,456 | 3.54 |
Total | 42,149 | 27.38 |
| Gerald Cumberbatch | Panama We Can | | Independent | 12,875 | 8.36 |
| Panameñista Party | 9,275 | 6.03 |
Total | 22,150 | 14.39 |
| Jacqueline Hurtado | People's Party | 17,810 | 11.57 |
| Irving Dominguez | Independent | 11,123 | 7.23 |
| Gilberto Marulanda | Broad Front for Democracy | 3,163 | 2.05 |
Total | 153,931 | 100.00 |
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Valid votes | 153,931 | 93.58 |
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Invalid/blank votes | 10,558 | 6.42 |
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Total votes | 164,489 | 100.00 |
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Source: Election Tribunal |
Colón
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % |
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| Alex Lee | Democratic Revolutionary Party | 21,826 | 22.43 |
| Diogenes Galvan | Independent | 20,027 | 20.58 |
| Federico Policani | Panama We Can | | Panameñista Party | 14,519 | 14.92 |
| People's Party | 4,388 | 4.51 |
Total | 18,907 | 19.43 |
| Carlos Outten | Democratic Change | 15,794 | 16.23 |
| Enrique Brooks Galvan | Independent | 6,645 | 6.83 |
| Felipe Cabeza | Broad Front for Democracy | 5,759 | 5.92 |
| Cristobal Gondola | Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 5,460 | 5.61 |
| Josefina Smith | Alliance Party | 2,893 | 2.97 |
Total | 97,311 | 100.00 |
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Valid votes | 97,311 | 93.25 |
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Invalid/blank votes | 7,048 | 6.75 |
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Total votes | 104,359 | 100.00 |
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Source: Election Tribunal |
David
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % |
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| Antonio Arauz | Democratic Revolutionary Party | 28,132 | 36.55 |
| Joaquín De León | Panameñista Party | 19,428 | 25.24 |
| Karen Caballero | Independent | | Democratic Change | 8,211 | 10.67 |
| Independent | 4,060 | 5.27 |
Total | 12,271 | 15.94 |
| Nicolás Rivera | Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement | 6,545 | 8.50 |
| Agustín Saldaña | Independent | | Independent | 3,016 | 3.92 |
| People's Party | 2,505 | 3.25 |
Total | 5,521 | 7.17 |
| Amael Acosta | Independent | 3,460 | 4.50 |
| Néstor Camargo | Alliance Party | 945 | 1.23 |
| Tomas Armuelles | Broad Front for Democracy | 666 | 0.87 |
Total | 76,968 | 100.00 |
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Valid votes | 76,968 | 93.09 |
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Invalid/blank votes | 5,715 | 6.91 |
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Total votes | 82,683 | 100.00 |
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Source: Election Tribunal |
Notes
- ^ Herrera was elected but his term was served by his alternate.[17]
References
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- ^ Journalists, The International Consortium of Investigative. "Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption - The Panama Papers". OCCRP. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ marpichel (2017-06-01). "Caso Odebrecht en Panamá: 36 procesados y 56 millones aprehendidos". CNN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ "El expresidente panameño Martín Torrijos fue investigado por el caso Odebrecht". France 24. 2018-07-13. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ Noticias, Redacción de TVN (2015-10-29). "Tras 20 días de acusación contra Martinelli por "pinchazos" Mejía aún no actúa". Tvn Panamá (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
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- ^ Espinoza, Tereza (2024-05-06). "Medio cociente y residuo los salvan: Pineda, 'Bolota' Salazar, Robinson y Gálvez se mantienen en la Asamblea". Tvn Panamá (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
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- ^ "Plan General de Elecciones (PLAGEL 2022-2024)". Tribunal Electoral. 20 January 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
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