2019 Panamanian general election


General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2019. Due to constitutional term limits, Incumbent President Juan Carlos Varela was ineligible for a second consecutive term. 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.
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.
The President is elected through plurality vote in one round.

Opinion polls

Preliminary results

President

National Assembly

By constituency

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party15,30930.47
Democratic Change11,47922.84
Independent7,16814.27
Panameñista Party5,32610.60
Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement4,7989.55
Peoples Party7341.46
Independent6141.22
Broad Front for Democracy4460.89
Alliance Party1350.27

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party12,13243.85
Panamenista Party9,99936.14
Democratic Change4,76517.22
Broad Front for Democracy7682.78

PartyVotes%Elected
Panamenista/People's Party17,67755.24
Democratic Change/Alliance Party9,81230.66
Democratic Revolution/Molirena Party3,29910.31%

PartyVotes%Elected
Panamenista/People's Party11,12941.30
Democratic Revolutionary Party6,96325.84
Democratic Change4,30615.98
Molirena1,8316.79
Independent1,3224.91
Independent8593.19
Independent3471.29
Broad Front for Democracy1110.41
Alliance Party800.30

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party35,05634.86
Panamenista Party17,09417.00
Democratic Change16,92716.83
Independent7,3317.29
Independent5,5165.48
Broad Front for Democracy3,2503.23
Molirena2,9992.98
Independent2,1042.09
People's Party1,8281.82
Alliance Party1,3171.31

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party23,71030.43
Panamenista Party13,78917.70
Democratic Change10,72413.76
Independent6,9718.95
MOLIRENA6,2968.08
Independent4,2465.45
Independent2,5113.22
People's Party2,1082.71
Broad Front for Democracy1,2441.60
Alliance Party6540.84

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party12,73529.77
Democratic Change11,50926.91
Panamenista Party8,82320.63
MOLIRENA2,8866.75
Independent2,5555.97
Independent5581.30
Alliance Party3000.70

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Revolutionary Party/MOLIRENA14,83445.17
Independent6,69320.38
Alliance Party3,40010.35
Panamenista/People's Party2,7758.45
Independent2,1606.58
Democratic Change2,0636.28
Independent9182.80

PartyVotes%Elected
Democratic Change5,07529.62
Democratic Revolutionary Party4,61226.92
MOLIRENA4,08523.84
Panamenista/People's Party2,61615.27
Independent2611.52
Independent2411.41
Alliance Party1660.97
Broad Front for Democracy770.45

PartyVotes%Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA12,73039.24
CD/Alliance Party9,18528.31
Panamenista/Peopleś7,21322.23
Independent1,7295.33
Independent1,1753.62
Independent2870.88
FAD1260.39

PartyVotes%Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA10,92447.69
Panamenista/People's6,47928.28
Independent2,91612.73
CD/Alliance Party1,2515.46
Independent1,1234.90
Independent2140.93

PartyVotes%Elected
PRD/MOLIRENA16,36651.33
CD/Alliance Party7,68724.11
Panamenista/People's3,54111.11
Independent3,26410.24
Independent5381.69
Independent3431.08
Broad Front for Democracy1420.45