2020 Puerto Rican general election

2020 Puerto Rican general election

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Gubernatorial election

Nominee Pedro Pierluisi Carlos Delgado Altieri Alexandra Lúgaro Party New Progressive Popular Democratic Citizens' Victory Popular vote 427,016 407,817 179,265 Percentage 33.16% 31.67% 13.92%   Nominee Juan Dalmau César Vázquez Muñiz Party Independence Project Dignity Popular vote 175,402 87,379 Percentage 13.54% 6.79%

Results by municipality Pierluisi:      20-30%      30-40%      40-50% Delgado:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%

Governor before election Wanda Vázquez Garced New Progressive Elected Governor Pedro Pierluisi New Progressive

Resident Commissioner election

Candidate Jenniffer González-Colón Aníbal Acevedo Vilá Zayira Jordán Conde Party New Progressive Popular Democratic Citizens' Victory Alliance Republican Democratic Popular vote 512,697 400,412 157,679 Percentage 41.14% 32.13% 12.65%   Candidate Ada Norah Henriquez Luis Roberto Piñero Party Project Dignity Independence Popular vote 95,873 78,503 Percentage 7.69% 6.30%

Results by municipality González:      30-40%      40-50%      50-60% Acevedo:      30–40%      40–50%

Resident Commissioner before election Jenniffer González New Progressive Elected Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González New Progressive

General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 3, 2020, to elect the officials of the Puerto Rican government who will serve from January 2021 to January 2025, most notably the position of Governor and Resident Commissioner. In addition, there was a non-binding status referendum to ask voters if Puerto Rico should become the 51st state of the Union.

Incumbent New Progressive Party Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who succeeded to the governorship on August 7, 2019, was eligible to run for a full term in office, which she announced on December 16, 2019. However, Vázquez Garced lost her bid when former Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi won the New Progressive Party membership vote on the nomination for governor.^[1]

Pierluisi ultimately won the election on November 3, 2020, albeit by a narrow margin of 1.37%. As a result, this election was the closest race of the 2020 gubernatorial election cycle. Pierlusi's winning 33% of the vote was the lowest obtained by a successful gubernatorial candidate in Puerto Rico since the first direct election in 1948. Jenniffer González-Colón was re-elected as Resident Commissioner.