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Gubernatorial elections were held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Resident Commissioner, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the mayors of the 78 municipalities. Two parties filed to hold a primary election: the New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic ...
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections, [1] [2] electing the governor, resident commissioner and members of the House of Representatives and Senate. A non-binding status referendum and a straw poll for the 2024 United States presidential election were held. [3]
Complicating things for "Alianza" is the way Puerto Rico's 2020 electoral law restructured the election process in a way that, in practice, has given the ruling party "an institutional advantage ...
On November 5, 2024, Jennifer Gonzalez won the office of Governor of Puerto Rico in the 2024 general election, with over 40% of the vote. [33] On January 2, 2025, González-Colón was sworn into office as Governor of Puerto Rico, the second woman to be elected to the position and the third woman to serve.
Puerto Rico’s next governor will have to work alongside a federal control board that oversees the island’s finances and was created after the government declared bankruptcy. Ahead of Sunday's primaries, more than 4,900 inmates voted in prisons across the U.S. territory.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Sen. Juan Zaragoza, who was highly lauded for his work as the island’s former treasury secretary, ran against Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz to be the main candidate for the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the island’s status quo as a U.S. territory.
This year’s election is unlike any other in the 76 years since the U.S. began allowing Puerto Ricans to vote for their governor. Puerto Rico Might Elect Its First Pro-Independence Governor Skip ...
In addition to state gubernatorial elections, the territories of American Samoa and Puerto Rico held elections for their governors. This was also the first time since 1988 that a Republican nominee won the gubernatorial election in American Samoa and also the first time since 1996 that an incumbent governor there lost re-election.