2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election

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See also: 2020 United States gubernatorial elections
2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election
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Nominee Pedro Pierluisi Carlos Delgado Altieri
Party New Progressive Popular Democratic
Alliance Democratic
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Nominee Alexandra Lúgaro Juan Dalmau
Party Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana Puerto Rican Independence Party
Incumbent Governor

Wanda Vázquez Garced
New Progressive


Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2020, 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 Wanda Vázquez Garced, who succeeded to the governorship on August 7, 2019, is eligible to run for a full term in office, which she announced she would do on December 16, 2019. However she lost her bid when former Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi won the New Progressive Party membership vote on the nomination for governor. [1]

New Progressive Party

On March 3, 2019, Ricardo Rosselló announced he would seek re-election as governor in the 2020 elections; however, following the Telegramgate scandal and subsequent protests in front of La Fortaleza, Rosselló announced on July 21, 2019, that he would withdraw his bid for re-election. Shortly thereafter, on August 2, he resigned as governor.

On September 9, 2019, Pedro Pierluisi, who served briefly as de facto governor following Rosselló's resignation, announced he would seek the PNP nomination for governor for the 2020 elections.

On December 19, 2019, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who was elevated to governor on August 7, 2019, after Pierluisi's appointment was deemed unconstitutional, announced her intention to seek re-election to a full term as governor.

On August 16, 2020, in an extended primary process marred by troubles delivering ballots to polling places for the original primary date of August 9, Pierluisi defeated Vázquez Garced.[2]

Candidates

Nominated

Eliminated in primary

Withdrawn

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size[lower-alpha 2]		 Margin
of error		 Wanda Vázquez Pedro Pierluisi Other Undecided
Radio Isla July 28–August 3, 2020 ~295 (LV)[lower-alpha 3] – 49% 45% — 6%
Diario Las Américas March 30-April 21, 2020 — (RV)[lower-alpha 4] — 52% 36% 1% 11%
El Nuevo Día February 21–25, 2020 247 (RV) ± 6.2% 48% 47% 2%[lower-alpha 5] 3%

Results

New Progressive Party primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
[[New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)|Template:New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)/meta/shortname]] Pedro Pierluisi 162,345 57.67%
[[New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)|Template:New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)/meta/shortname]] Wanda Vázquez Garced (incumbent) 119,184 42.33%
Total votes 281,529 100.00%

Popular Democratic Party

After the defeat of Popular Democratic candidate David Bernier in the 2016 Puerto Rico gubernatorial elections, the party was mostly divided in opinions on how to move forward to the 2020 elections. While many in the party wanted to keep going with the same ideology of the Free Associated State, Carmen Yulín Cruz expressed a desire to create a new movement in the party, one that would support a free association of Puerto Rico as an independent country from the United States.[7][8]

On August 16, 2020, in an extended primary process marred by troubles delivering ballots to polling places for the original primary date of August 9, Delgado defeated Bhatia and Cruz.

Candidates

Nominated

Eliminated in primary

Withdrawn

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size[lower-alpha 2]		 Margin
of error		 Carlos Delgado Altieri Eduardo
Bhatia		 Carmen Yulín Cruz Other/Undecided
Radio Isla July 28–August 3, 2020 ~246 (LV)[lower-alpha 6] – 39% 35% 21% 5%[lower-alpha 7]
Diario Las Américas March 30-April 21, 2020 — (RV)[lower-alpha 8] — — 49% 25% 26%[lower-alpha 9]
El Nuevo Día February 21–25, 2020 170 (RV) ± 7.5% 12% 50% 24% 14%[lower-alpha 10]

Results

Popular Democratic Party primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
[[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Template:Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)/meta/shortname]] Carlos Delgado Altieri 128,638 62.97%
[[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Template:Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)/meta/shortname]] Eduardo Bhatia 48,563 23.77%
[[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Template:Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)/meta/shortname]] Carmen Yulín Cruz 27,068 13.25%
Total votes 204,269 100.00%

Other candidates

Independence Party

On December 27, 2019, the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) filed its list of candidates for the general election, including Sen. Juan Dalmau as governor.[16] Dalmau previously ran as the PIP candidate in the 2012 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election.

Nominee

Citizens Victory Movement

After the defeat of Alexandra Lúgaro as an independent candidate and Rafael Bernabe as the candidate for the Working People's Party in the 2016 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, the two candidates joined with other Puerto Rican politicians in March 2019 to form a new political party called Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (Citizen's Victory Movement).

On November 19, 2019, Alexandra Lúgaro announced her second run for governor, this time running as the MVC candidate.

Nominee

Project Dignity

Project Dignity was certified as an official party by the CEE (State Commission on Elections) on January 22, 2020. It needed 47,406 petitions of endorsement to be certified, of which it received 47,856. [19]

On May 20, 2020, the party announced that Dr. César Vazquez would be their gubernatorial nominee. [20]

Nominee

Independent

On May 5, 2020, the CEE (State Commission on Elections) certified the candidacy of Eliezer Molina after a legal dispute over the amount of endorsements required to ratify his nomination.[22][23][24]

Declared

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size[lower-alpha 2]		 Margin
of error		 Pedro Pierluisi (PNP-D) Charlie Delgado (PPD) Juan Dalmau Ramírez (PIP) Alexandra Lúgaro (MVC) Generic Project Dignity Other Undecided
El Nuevo Día February 21–25, 2020 1,000 (RV) ± 3.1% 40% 19% 7% 6% 4% 18%[lower-alpha 11] 6%[lower-alpha 12]

Results

2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Progressive Pedro Pierluisi
Popular Democratic Carlos Delgado Altieri
Puerto Rican Independence Juan Dalmau Ramírez
style="background-color: Template:Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana|Template:Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana/meta/shortname]] Alexandra Lúgaro
style="background-color: Template:Project Dignity/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Project Dignity|Template:Project Dignity/meta/shortname]] César Vázquez
Independent Eliezer Molina
Write-in
Total votes

Notes

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References

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External links

Official campaign websites
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