2014 Panamanian general election

none June 2022 Panama 2009 Panamanian general election 2009 2019 Panamanian general election 2019 2014 5 4 y yes Presidential election presidential 130x130px 76.76% ( 2.75pp) Juan Carlos Varela (2014) 3x4 Cropped.jpg Juan Carlos Varela Isabel Saint Malo Panameñista Party 724,762 39.09% Jose Domingo Arias (2013) 4x3 Cropped.jpg José Domingo Arias Marta Linares de Martinelli Democratic Change (Panama) 581,828 31.38% Juan Carlos Navarro (2013) 3x4 Cropped.png Juan Carlos Navarro Gerardo Solís Democratic Revolutionary Party 521,842 28.14% Elecciones_Panamá_Resultados_2014.png Results by province President Ricardo Martinelli Democratic Change (Panama) Juan Carlos Varela Panameñista Party General elections were held in Panama on 4 May 2014.Panama IFES Due to constitutional term limits, Incumbent President Ricardo Martinelli was ineligible for a second consecutive term. Incumbent Vice President Juan Carlos Varela of the Partido Panameñista won the election with 39% of the votes.Vice President Juan Carlos Varela wins Panama's presidential race, topping field of 7 https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/05/04/panamanians-vote-in-tight-presidential-election U.S. News 4 May 2014 Electoral system 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 forms a constituency. Constituencies elect one MP for every 30,000 residents and an additional representative for every fraction over 10,000.Electoral system IPU 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. Presidential candidates Seven candidates contested the election:Panama IFES José Domingo Arias – Cambio Democrático (CD), a former minister in Martinelli's government Juan Carlos Navarro - Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), former mayor of Panama City Juan Carlos Varela - Panameñista Party, incumbent Vice President Genaro López - Broad Front for Democracy (FAD), former General Secretary of the SUNTRACS union Juan Jované - Independent, former head of the Social Security administration, and a left-wing economist Esteban Rodríguez - Independent Gerardo Barroso - Independent Opinion polls Poll sourceDateJosé Domingo Arias(CD)Juan Carlos Navarro(PRD)Juan Carlos Varela(Panameñista)Dichter & Neira https://www.as-coa.org/blogs/poll-update-panamas-ruling-party-candidate-ahead-possible-close-race Poll Update: Panama's Ruling-Party Candidate ahead in Possible Close Race 28 March 2014 Zissis Carin Americas Society / Council of the Americas March 2014 39% 32% 26%Ipsos March 2014 33% 31% 26%Dichter & Neira http://www.tvn-2.com/Decision2014/Paginas/encuesta_tvn.aspx Intención de Voto Presidencial - Encuesta TVN y Dichter & Neira 23 April 2014 TVN Noticias Panamá dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140503165906/http://www.tvn-2.com/Decision2014/Paginas/encuesta_tvn.aspx 3 May 2014 23 April 2014 35% 30% 32%Ipsos http://www.telemetro.com/panamaopina/panama_opina-23_abril-2014_14_691270867.html#.U2TT74F5MXs Panamá Opina - Telemetro Reporta 23 April 2014 Telemetro Reporta 3 May 2014 28 April 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140428024751/http://www.telemetro.com/panamaopina/panama_opina-23_abril-2014_14_691270867.html#.U2TT74F5MXs dead 23 April 2014 33.9% 34.2% 29.1% Results President Juan Carlos Varela The People First 3 Panameñista Party 563584 Panameñista Party People's Party 161178 724762 José Domingo Arias United for Change 3 Democratic Change 483309 Democratic Change (Panama) Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement 98519 581828 Juan Carlos Navarro Democratic Revolutionary Party 521842 Genaro López Broad Front for Democracy 11127 Juan Jované Independent 10805 Esteban Rodríguez Independent 2240 Gerardo Barroso Independent 1598 32106 2457401 Election Tribunal, Electoral Tribunal National Assembly File:Panamanian Assembly 2014.svg Democratic Change 573603 30 +16 Democratic Revolutionary Party 535747 25 –1 Panameñista Party 343880 12 –10 Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement 121815 2 0 People's Party 56629 1 0 Broad Front for Democracy 17224 0 New Independents 52184 1 –1 146718 0 2457401 Election Tribunal Although Democratic Change won 30 seats and MOLIRENA two, rival candidates in 10 of the circuits won by CD and 1 of those won by MOLIRENA said there were irregularities throughout the elections that favored the winning parties. As such, the Electoral Tribunal of Panama annulled the results in those circuits and new special elections were to be held every Sunday from 16 November 2014 to determine which candidate would win those 11 seats. +Special election results Election Date Circuit Candidate Party 16 November 2014 7-1 Carlos "Tito" Afú Democratic Change (CD) 23 November 2014 2-4 Noriel Salerno Democratic Change (CD) 30 November 2014 7-2 Mariela Vega Democratic Change (CD) 14 December 2014 4-1 Miguel Fanovich Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement (MOLIRENA) 14 December 2014 4-1 Florentino Ábrego Panameñista Party References Panama Category:Elections in Panama Category:2014 in Panama Category:Presidential elections in Panama Category:May 2014 in North America