2019 Panamanian general election

2019 Panamanian general election
	5 May 2019
	5 May 2019
President before election; Juan Carlos Varela; Panameñista	Elected President ; Laurentino Cortizo; PRD

General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2019.[1] Due to constitutional term limits, Incumbent President Juan Carlos Varela was ineligible for a second consecutive term.[2] Businessman and politician Laurentino Cortizo won the election with around 33% of the vote. Chairman Rómulo Roux lost a close race, polling just around 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.[3]

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.[3]

The President is elected through plurality vote in one round.

Opinion polls

Pollster	Date	Cortizo (PRD)	Roux (CD)	Lombana (IND)
Gallup Panama	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%

Preliminary results

President

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Laurentino Cortizo	Democratic Revolutionary Party	655,302	33.35
	Rómulo Roux	Democratic Change	609,003	31.00
	Ricardo Lombana	Independent	368,962	18.78
	José Blandón	Panameñista Party	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
Invalid/blank votes			48,656	–
Total			2,013,433	100
Registered voters/turnout			2,757,823	73.00
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
Invalid/blank votes		142,663	–	–	–
Total		1,950,103	100	71	0
Registered voters/turnout				–	–
Source: TE, psephos

By constituency

Bocas del Toro 1-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	15,501	26.93	YY
Panameñista Party	12,740	22.14
Democratic Change	9,142	15.88
People's Party	7,121	12.37
Independent	3,933	6.83
Independent	1,972	3.43
Independent	1,290	2.24
Broad Front for Democracy	1,245	2.16
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement	665	1.16
Alliance Party	218	0.38

Cocle 2-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	15,309	30.47	YY
Democratic Change	11,479	22.84
Independent	7,168	14.27
Panameñista Party	5,326	10.60
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement	4,798	9.55
Peoples Party	734	1.46
Independent	614	1.22
Broad Front for Democracy	446	0.89
Alliance Party	135	0.27

Cocle 2-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	12,132	43.85	Y
Panamenista Party	9,999	36.14
Democratic Change	4,765	17.22
Broad Front for Democracy	768	2.78

Cocle 2-3
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Panamenista/People's Party	17,677	55.24	Y
Democratic Change/Alliance Party	9,812	30.66
Democratic Revolution/Molirena Party	3,299	10.31%

Cocle 2-4
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Panamenista/People's Party	11,129	41.30	Y
Democratic Revolutionary Party	6,963	25.84
Democratic Change	4,306	15.98
Molirena	1,831	6.79
Independent	1,322	4.91
Independent	859	3.19
Independent	347	1.29
Broad Front for Democracy	111	0.41
Alliance Party	80	0.30

Colon 3-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	35,056	34.86	YY
Panamenista Party	17,094	17.00	Y
Democratic Change	16,927	16.83	Y
Independent	7,331	7.29
Independent	5,516	5.48
Broad Front for Democracy	3,250	3.23
Molirena	2,999	2.98
Independent	2,104	2.09
People's Party	1,828	1.82
Alliance Party	1,317	1.31

Colon 3-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Change	8,418	37.23	Y
Democratic Revolutionary Party/MOLIRENA	7,148	31.61
Panamenista/People's Party	5,374	23.77
Independent	905	4.00
Independent	494	2.18
Broad Front for Democracy	272	1.20

Chiriqui 4-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	23,710	30.43	Y
Panamenista Party	13,789	17.70	Y
Democratic Change	10,724	13.76
Independent	6,971	8.95
MOLIRENA	6,296	8.08	Y
Independent	4,246	5.45
Independent	2,511	3.22
People's Party	2,108	2.71
Broad Front for Democracy	1,244	1.60
Alliance Party	654	0.84

Chiriqui 4-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Panamenista Party	10,338	36.39	Y
Democratic Revolutionary Party	10,287	36.21
Democratic Change	4,097	14.42
Independent	1,313	4.62
Alliance Party	787	2.77
Independent	608	2.14
Independent	439	1.55
People's Party	396	1.39
Broad Front for Democracy	144	0.51

Chiriqui 4-3
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	12,735	29.77	Y
Democratic Change	11,509	26.91
Panamenista Party	8,823	20.63
MOLIRENA	2,886	6.75
Independent	2,555	5.97
Independent	558	1.30
Alliance Party	300	0.70

Chiriqui 4-4
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	9,020	31.09	Y
Panamenista/People's Party	6,888	23.74
MOLIRENA	6,217	21.43
Democratic Change/Independent	4,457	15.36
Independent	2,228	7.68
Broad Front for Democracy	200	0.69

Chiriqui 4-5
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party/MOLIRENA	14,834	45.17	Y
Independent	6,693	20.38
Alliance Party	3,400	10.35
Panamenista/People's Party	2,775	8.45
Independent	2,160	6.58
Democratic Change	2,063	6.28
Independent	918	2.80

Chiriqui 4-6
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Change/Alliance Party	10,021	49.23	Y
Democratic Revolutionary Party/MOLIRENA	5,782	28.40
Panamenista/People's Party	4,554	22.37

Darien 5-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Change	5,075	29.62	Y
Democratic Revolutionary Party	4,612	26.92
MOLIRENA	4,085	23.84
Panamenista/People's Party	2,616	15.27
Independent	261	1.52
Independent	241	1.41
Alliance Party	166	0.97
Broad Front for Democracy	77	0.45

Darien 5-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party	5,222	39.61	Y
MOLIRENA	3,948	29.95
Panamenista/People's Party	1,624	12.32
Democratic Change/Alliance Party	1,437	10.90
Independent	589	4.47
Independent	250	1.90
Independent	90	0.68
Broad Front for Democracy	23	0.17

Herrera 6-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA	12,730	39.24	Y
CD/Alliance Party	9,185	28.31
Panamenista/Peopleś	7,213	22.23
Independent	1,729	5.33
Independent	1,175	3.62
Independent	287	0.88
FAD	126	0.39

Herrera 6-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA	11,811	49.61	Y
People's/Panamenista	10,541	44.27
Independent	730	3.07
CD/Alliance Party	467	1.96
Independent	148	0.62
Independent	112	0.47

Herrera 6-3
Party	Votes	%	Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA	10,924	47.69	Y
Panamenista/People's	6,479	28.28
Independent	2,916	12.73
CD/Alliance Party	1,251	5.46
Independent	1,123	4.90
Independent	214	0.93

Los Santos 7-1
Party	Votes	%	Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA	12,312	36.32	Y
CD/Alliance Party	12,197	35.98
Panamenista/People's	5,371	15.79
Independent	2,157	6.36
Independent	1,178	5.54

Los Santos 7-2
Party	Votes	%	Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA	16,366	51.33	Y
CD/Alliance Party	7,687	24.11
Panamenista/People's	3,541	11.11
Independent	3,264	10.24
Independent	538	1.69
Independent	343	1.08
Broad Front for Democracy	142	0.45

References

Panama IFES
"Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF).
Electoral system IPU

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[1] Panama IFES

[2] "Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF).

[IPU-3] Electoral system IPU

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