1960 Panamanian general election

General elections were held in Panama on 20 May 1960, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly.

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According to Jan Knippers Black and Edmundo Flores, "Ernesto de la Guardia's administration had been overwhelmed by the rioting and other problems, and the National Patriotic Coalition, lacking effective opposition in the National Assembly, began to disintegrate. Most dissenting factions joined the National Liberal Party in the National Opposition Union."[1]

The 1960 election was without precedent in Panama. For once the usual charges of illegal intervention by the National Guard were absent, and the opposition Liberal coalition candidate, Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, was declared the winner and installed in office in an unexpectedly peaceful transfer of power. [2]

Results

President
CandidateParty or allianceVotes%
Roberto Francisco Chiari RemónNational Opposition UnionNational Liberal Party42,39417.56
Republican Party26,07310.80
Third Nationalist Party16,0686.65
National Liberation Movement15,5076.42
Total100,04241.43
Ricardo AriasNational Patriotic Coalition85,98135.61
Víctor Florencio GoytíaPopular AllianceLiberal Civic Resistance Party29,03112.02
National Progressive Party9,7854.05
DIPAL Party8,6353.58
Renewal Party8,0043.31
Total55,45522.96
Total241,478100.00
Valid votes241,47893.58
Invalid/blank votes16,5616.42
Total votes258,039100.00
Registered voters/turnout435,45459.26
Source: Nohlen[3]

National Assembly
Party or allianceSeats
National Opposition UnionNational Liberal Party8
Republican Party9
Third Nationalist Party7
National Liberation Movement4
Total28
National Patriotic Coalition18
Popular AllianceLiberal Civic Resistance Party3
National Progressive Party2
DIPAL Party1
Renewal Party1
Total7
Total53
Source: Nohlen[4]

References
  1. Black, Jan Knippers and Edmundo Flores. "Historical setting." Meditz, Sandra W. 1989. Panama: a country study. Washington, D.C.: Rederal Research Division, Library of Congress. Pp. 37.
  2. Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. Panama: election factbook, May 12, 1968. Washington: Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. 1968. Pp. 10.
  3. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.532.
  4. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. [Oxford] [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.529.
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