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.

"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."

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.

Results

President


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ernesto de la Guardia Navarro	National Patriotic Coalition	177,633	68.49
	Víctor Florencio Goytía	National Liberal Party	81,737	31.51
Total			259,370	100.00

Valid votes			259,370	84.55
Invalid/blank votes			47,400	15.45
Total votes			306,770	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			386,672	79.34
Source: Nohlen

National Assembly


Party		Seats
	National Patriotic Coalition	42
	National Liberal Party	11
Total		53

Source: Nohlen

References

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.
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.
Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.532.
Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. : Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.529.

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