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This article lists political parties in Puerto Rico.. Puerto Rico has a 'first past the post' electoral system, in which a voter can vote by party, by candidate or both.To qualify as an official political party (and thus be able to appear on the printed state electoral ballot), a party must meet the criteria set forth by the Puerto Rico Electoral Law.
In the 2016 gubernatorial election, the independent candidate Alexandra Lúgaro managed to arrive in third with 11.13%, María De Lourdes Santiago of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and Rafael Bernabe from the Working People's Party (PPT) failed to reach the 3% threshold required to remain registered with 2.13% and 0.34% respectively. [1]
The Popular Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance. [ a ] [ b ] The party was founded in 1938 by dissidents from the Puerto Rican Liberal Party and the Unionist Party and originally promoted policies ...
This year, however, the candidate from the Puerto Rican Independence Party, a minority party that advocates for the island’s independence from the U.S., has had a breakthrough.
Puerto Rican voters have shot to center stage in national elections, marking a major shift for an electorate that was largely overlooked for a century. The voting bloc is at the center of national ...
In the 1950s, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party denounced the Constitution and Muñoz Marín support as a sham, and staged a series of uprisings in 1950, known as the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, of which the most notable were the ones in Jayuya, Utuado and San Juan, plus the attack on Blair House, and the United States ...
Plans to hold a nonbinding referendum on Puerto Rico’s political status came under scrutiny Wednesday for its multimillion-dollar cost as election officials announced the order and description ...
The political party strength in Puerto Rico has been held by different political parties in the history of Puerto Rico. Today, that strength is primarily held by two parties, namely: The New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish) which holds about 39% of the popular vote while advocating for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States