1956 Panamanian general election

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General elections were held in Panama on 13 May 1956, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly.

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"The National Patriotic Coalition was almost unopposed in the 1956 election race. The National Liberal Party made the gesture of offering candidates but did not campaign vigorously." [1]

Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro, the government candidate, was a conservative businessman and a member of the oligarchy. The José Antonio Remón Cantera’ government had required parties to enroll 45,000 members to receive official recognition. This membership requirement, subsequently relaxed to 5,000, had excluded all opposition parties from the 1956 elections except the National Liberal Party (PLN) which traced its lineage to the original Liberal Party. [2]

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro National Patriotic Coalition 177,63368.49
Víctor Florencio Goytía National Liberal Party 81,73731.51
Total259,370100.00
Valid votes259,37084.55
Invalid/blank votes47,40015.45
Total votes306,770100.00
Registered voters/turnout386,67279.34
Source: Nohlen [3]

National Assembly

PartySeats
National Patriotic Coalition 42
National Liberal Party 11
Total53
Source: Nohlen [4]

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References

  1. ↑ 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. 30.
  2. ↑ 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. 35.
  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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