2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election

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2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election
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Nominee Jenniffer González-Colón Jesús Manuel Ortiz Javier Córdova Iturregui [lower-alpha 1]
Party New Progressive Popular Democratic Citizens' Victory
Alliance Republican Democratic
  Senador-17 (closer crop).jpg Javier Jimenez (cropped).jpg
Nominee Juan Dalmau Javier Jiménez
Party Independence Project Dignity
Alliance Alianza de País Republican
Incumbent Governor

Pedro Pierluisi
New Progressive



The 2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election will be held on 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. Incumbent New Progressive Party Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia ran for re-election to a second term in office, but lost the PNP primary to Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon. [1]

Contents

Two parties filed to hold a primary election: the New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic Party. The Puerto Rican Independence Party and Citizens' Victory Movement have formed an electoral alliance, with both parties agreeing to support former territorial senator Juan Dalmau; however, all parties are required to nominate a candidate for governor, so Citizens' Victory Movement nominated Javier Córdova Iturregui. Project Dignity nominated San Sebastián mayor Javier Jiménez.

No governor has won re-election since Pedro Rosselló in 1996.

New Progressive primary

On March 20, 2022, during the New Progressive Party's general assembly, governor Pedro Pierluisi announced that he would run for a second term. [1] In an interview on August 28, he reaffirmed the press that he would be in fact running again, stating that "Puerto Rico is moving forward and there is no one who can stop us" and that they were "going to beat the PDP". [2] Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón won the primary against Governor Pierluisi, becoming the first-ever female gubernatorial nominee for the New Progressive Party.

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Endorsements

Jenniffer González Colón
Federal officials
Territorial legislators
Local officials
Pedro Pierluisi
State cabinet officials
Statewide officials
Territorial legislators

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size [lower-alpha 2] 		Margin
of error		Pedro
Pierluisi		Jenniffer
González Colón		OthersUndecided
Pasquines 22–30 May 2024483 (RV)–63%35%1% [lower-alpha 3] 1%
Noticel and
Atlas Intel 		8–12 October 20232,350 [lower-alpha 4] (A)± 2.0%50.4%42.4%–6.1%
El Nuevo Día and
The Research Office 		31 January – 5 February 2023~400 (A)± 6.0%25%64%3%3%

Results

Results by municipality Primarias PNP 2024.svg
Results by municipality
New Progressive primary results [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Progressive Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon 159,527 54.57%
New Progressive Pedro Pierluisi (incumbent)132,80545.43%
Total votes292,332 100.0%

After suffering defeat in the 2020 elections, the Popular Democratic Party suffered a major divide on opinions, from the topic of abortion [10] to what political status should the party pursue in the case of an 8th plebiscite. [11] Some like the former party president José Luis Dalmau say that the party should keep supporting the current political status (ELA), while others within the party like former territorial senator Marco Rigau Jiménez stated that the party should move towards Free Association. [12]

On June 16, 2022, while criticizing the party president José Dalmau, Morovis mayor Carmen Maldonado González challenged him, and announced that she would be running for governor. [13] Later, on October 17, she officialized her candidacy in an press conference. [14] Afterward, on January 18, 2023, she stated that she would run for president of the party. [15] On May 7, after coming last on the presidency election, she conceded and announced that she would instead be running for re-election. [16]

Territorial senator Juan Zaragoza Gómez announced his candidacy for governor during a press conference on September 13, 2022, saying that "If God gives me health, I'm going there". [17] Zaragoza previously had announced that he would run for governor in the 2020 primary, [18] before withdrawing his candidacy to run as territorial senator at-large. [19]

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Withdrawn

Endorsements

Jesús Manuel Ortiz
Territorial legislators
Local officials
Juan Zaragoza
State cabinet officials
Territorial legislators
Local officials

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size [lower-alpha 2] 		Margin
of error		Jesús Manuel
Ortiz		Carlos
Delgado Altieri		José Luis
Dalmau		Juan
Zaragoza		Luis Javier
Hernández		Carmen
Maldonado González		OthersUndecided / Abstain
El Nuevo Día and
The Research Office 		24 October - 29 October 2023~1,000 (A)± 6.0%30%26%17%13%13%--1%
Noticel and
Atlas Intel 		8 - 12 October 2023~2,350 (A)± 6.0%42.6%16.4%5.6%3.8%17.3%--14.4%
El Nuevo Día and
The Research Office 		31 January–5 February 2023~400 (A)± 6.0%-28%24%19%4%8%6%

Results

Popular Democratic primary results [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Popular Democratic Jesús Manuel Ortiz 83,045 61.71%
Popular Democratic Juan Zaragoza Gómez 51,53438.29%
Total votes134,579 100.0%

Alianza de País (MVC-PIP Alliance)

The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and Citizens' Victory Movement (MVC) have formed an alliance for the 2024 elections. MVC has agreed to support PIP's nominee, Juan Dalmau Ramírez. However, Puerto Rico law requires all parties to nominate a candidate for governor, so MVC nominated Javier Córdova Iturregui as a placeholder candidate. [25] [26]

PIP nominee

MVC nominee

Endorsements

Project Dignity

Candidates

Ada Norah Henriquez, who ran for resident commissioner in 2020, announced on 23 May 2023, while on the La Trinchera podcast that "we are going to aspire for the executive." [28]

César Vázquez Muñiz, the president of the party and the nominee for governor in 2020, announced on 27 May 2023, while at a protest asking for the resignation of the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico Domingo Emanuelli, that he would be running again for governor, stating that "What you see is not asked". He later dropped out to run for territorial senate in the Bayamón district.

Javier Jiménez Pérez, mayor of San Sebastián del Pepino, who switched to Proyecto Dignidad earlier, announced his intention to run. This was further confirmed by a party assembly that certified the party will hold primaries to select the candidate. [29]

Henriquez announced in December 2023 that she would run as an independent, leaving Jiménez as the only candidate seeking the PD nomination. [30]

Nominee

Withdrawn

  • César Vázquez Muñiz, former president of Project Dignity and nominee for governor in 2020 (running for territorial senate) [31]
  • Ada Norah Henriquez, attorney and nominee for resident commissioner in 2020 (running as a write-in candidate) [30]

Declined

Endorsements

Javier Jiménez
Territorial legislators

Independents

Disqualified

General election

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size [lower-alpha 5] 		Margin
of error		Jenniffer González-
Colón (PNP)		Jesús Manuel
Ortiz (PPD)		Juan
Dalmau (PIP)		Javier
Jiménez (PD)		Undecided
Gaither International [upper-alpha 1] June 23 – July 8, 20241,109 (A)–43%14%23%9%10%

Results

2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election
PartyCandidateVotes%
New Progressive Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon
Popular Democratic Jesús Manuel Ortiz
Citizens' Victory Javier Córdova Iturregui [lower-alpha 1]
Independence Juan Dalmau
Project Dignity Javier Jiménez
Total votes100.0%

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Paper candidate
  2. 1 2 Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  3. ↑ "None of the above" with 1%
  4. ↑ unclear subgroup
  5. ↑ Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
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  1. ↑ Poll sponsored by El Vocero de Puerto Rico, WAPA-TV, and WKAQ

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