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.

  1. ^ "Wanda Vázquez retará a Pedro Pierluisi en las primarias por la candidatura a la gobernación por el PNP". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). December 16, 2019. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2019.