2024 Panamanian general election

General elections are scheduled to be held in Panama on 5 May 2024.[1] Due to constitutional term limits, incumbent president Laurentino Cortizo is ineligible for a second consecutive term.[2]

2024 Panamanian general election
5 May 2024
Presidential election
Incumbent President

Laurentino Cortizo
PRD


Legislative election
All 71 seats in the National Assembly
36 seats needed for a majority
Party Current seats
National Assembly
PRD 35
CD 18
Panameñista 8
MOLIRENA 5
Independents 5

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.

Presidential candidates

Publicly expressed interest

Opinion polls
Pollster Date Sample size Martinelli (RM) Lombana (MOC) Roux (CD) Carrizo (PRD)
Gallup Panama 11–16 March 2022 1,200 56.6% 13.3% 7.2% 2.4%
Gallup Panama 5–9 February 2022 1,200 57.7% 12.8% 5.1% –

References
  1. "Electoral Tribunal of Panama launched General Elections Plan for 2024 with technical assistance of International IDEA". www.idea.int. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  2. "Decree of the electoral court for the holding of elections" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-09-15. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  3. Electoral system IPU
  4. Pinto, Alberto (2021-11-10). "Ricardo Martinelli confirma sus aspiraciones a la Presidencia de la República en el 2024". Panamá América (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  5. "Política en Panamá: Lombana reitera el llamado a los independientes a unificar una 'visión de país' hacia el 2024". TVN (in European Spanish). 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  6. "Panama´s ruling party sets course towards 2024 presidential elections – Prensa Latina". 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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