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General elections were held in Panama on 20 May 1960, electing both a new President of the Republic and a new National Assembly.
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]
Candidate | Party or alliance | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón | National Opposition Union | National Liberal Party | 42,394 | 17.56 | ||
Republican Party | 26,073 | 10.80 | ||||
Third Nationalist Party | 16,068 | 6.65 | ||||
National Liberation Movement | 15,507 | 6.42 | ||||
Total | 100,042 | 41.43 | ||||
Ricardo Arias | National Patriotic Coalition | 85,981 | 35.61 | |||
Víctor Florencio Goytía | Popular Alliance | Liberal Civic Resistance Party | 29,031 | 12.02 | ||
National Progressive Party | 9,785 | 4.05 | ||||
DIPAL Party | 8,635 | 3.58 | ||||
Renewal Party | 8,004 | 3.31 | ||||
Total | 55,455 | 22.96 | ||||
Total | 241,478 | 100.00 | ||||
Valid votes | 241,478 | 93.58 | ||||
Invalid/blank votes | 16,561 | 6.42 | ||||
Total votes | 258,039 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 435,454 | 59.26 | ||||
Source: Nohlen[3] |
Party or alliance | Seats | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
National Opposition Union | National Liberal Party | 8 | ||
Republican Party | 9 | |||
Third Nationalist Party | 7 | |||
National Liberation Movement | 4 | |||
Total | 28 | |||
National Patriotic Coalition | 18 | |||
Popular Alliance | Liberal Civic Resistance Party | 3 | ||
National Progressive Party | 2 | |||
DIPAL Party | 1 | |||
Renewal Party | 1 | |||
Total | 7 | |||
Total | 53 | |||
Source: Nohlen[4] |
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