2024 Panamanian general election

2024 Panamanian general election

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Presidential election
Turnout	77.64% 4.63pp
Candidate José Raúl Mulino Ricardo Lombana Martín Torrijos Party RM MOCA PP Alliance Alliance Party Running mate None[a] Michael Chen Rosario Turner [es] Popular vote 778,772 559,432 364,576 Percentage 34.23% 24.59% 16.03%   Candidate Rómulo Roux Zulay Rodríguez José Gabriel Carrizo Party CD Independent PRD Alliance Panameñista MOLIRENA Running mate José Blandón Athenas Athanasiadis Camilo Alleyne Popular vote 258,818 150,338 133,791 Percentage 11.38% 6.61% 5.88%
Results by province
President before election Laurentino Cortizo PRD Elected President José Raúl Mulino RM
Legislative election
All 71 seats in the National Assembly 36 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	75.75% 5.04pp
Party % Seats +/– National Assembly Independents 24.06 20 +15 RM 17.17 14 New PRD 16.25 13 −22 CD 11.19 8 −10 Panameñista 10.64 8 0 MOCA 6.99 3 New PP 6.01 2 +2 Alianza 2.91 2 +2 MOLIRENA 3.17 1 −4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Seat distribution by electoral circuit Seat distribution by political affiliation

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General elections were held in Panama on 5 May 2024 to elect a new President of Panama, members of the National Assembly and local governments.^[2][3] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent president Laurentino Cortizo was ineligible for a second consecutive term.^[4] The winners of the general election, including the new president of Panama, will be inaugurated on 1 July.^[5]

The conservative candidate José Raúl Mulino, who was appointed as presidential candidate of Realizing Goals following the conviction and subsequent disqualification of former president Ricardo Martinelli,^[6] won the election with 34.2% of the vote.^[7][8] Mulino defeated a total of seven other candidates, among whom his closest rival was Ricardo Lombana of MOCA, who received around 24.6%.^[9]

The governing Democratic Revolutionary Party suffered its worst ever electoral result, despite being the largest political party in Panama.^[10] Its candidate, incumbent vice president José Gabriel Carrizo, came in sixth place with 5.88% of the vote; and the party suffered significant losses in the legislative and local elections, losing the mayorships of the most populated districts of the country, including Panamá District,^[11] San Miguelito,^[12] Colón,^[13] Arraiján,^[14] La Chorrera,^[15] David,^[16] and Santiago de Veraguas.^[17]

In contrast, there was an outstanding performance by new parties and independent politicians. Realizing Goals, the party of the president-elect, which was founded in 2021 by former president Ricardo Martinelli, gained 14 seats in the National Assembly. Another Way Movement, founded in late 2019 by Ricardo Lombana, became the most-voted opposition party by gaining a fourth of the presidential vote, three members of the National Assembly and numerous local governments, including the mayorship of Santiago.^[17][18] Neither the Democratic Revolutionary Party or the Panameñista Party, the traditional biggest two parties of Panama, were in either of the top two coalitions.^[19]

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