• Source: 2024 Puerto Rican general election

General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections, electing the governor, resident commissioner and members of the House of Representatives and Senate. A non-binding status referendum and a straw poll for the 2024 United States presidential election were held.




Background


Primaries were held on June 2, 2024, with incumbent Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón winning the New Progressive primary defeating incumbent Governor Pedro Pierluisi. This continued the tradition of the Governor of Puerto Rico only serving one term that started with Governor Sila María Calderón and the Popular Democratic Party 20 years prior in the 2004 gubernatorial election.
Territorial representative and president of the Popular Democratic Party, Jesús Manuel Ortiz, would secure the party's nomination for Governor, defeating at-large territorial senator and former Puerto Rico Secretary of Treasury, Juan Zaragoza.
In September 2024, the American Civil Rights Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction, as well as a declaratory judgment, allowing potential voters to register, through October 6. On October 1, the US District Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Rights Union (ACLU). The Court declined to intervene in Puerto Rico's electoral processes or grant the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction. The American Civil Rights Union (ACLU) has failed to demonstrate that the September 21 voter registration deadline constitutes an unconstitutional disenfranchisement, or a manifest injustice, that justifies the intrusion of the United States federal government, into the election administration of the State of Puerto Rico.
On October 7, 2024, the New Progressive Party (PNP) requested the court to order the State Commission on Elections to “immediately validate all applications for mail-in and advance ballots” that were not processed within two business days. However, shortly after, the PNP canceled his trial in which he requested the vote by correspondence without verification, and processed in cash, while his hearing was already scheduled.
On October 8, 2024, Electoral Commissioner Aníbal Vega Borges requested the court to immediately validate all applications for postal and advance voting received and not processed within the established deadline.
The State Commission on Elections received approximately 142,000 early voting applications. The Comission's plenary session had agreed to start counting early votes on 11 October, but that date was aborted after the sending of such votes was delayed by more than a week. There is no official date for the start of counting of this vote.
On October 15, 2024, the State Commission on Elections authorized the participation of the American Civil Liberties Union as election observers in the polls.
On October 16, 2024, the Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow appointed the Chief of the Financial Fraud and Corruption Section, Assistant United States Attorney Seth Erbe, to oversee elections, the appointed attorney, handles complaints regarding voting rights, threats of violence against election officials or staff, and voter fraud, on election day.
On October 22, 2024, the PNP filed a complaint against members of the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, for alleged violation of the electoral code, after having created an electronic platform for searching for voter numbers.
On October 28, 2024, the State Commission on Elections accepted a request from the Popular Democratic Party for the Absentee and Early Voting Administrative Board to review envelopes containing early mail-in voting ballots, where the legitimacy of the process was called into question.
On November 4, 2024, the Puerto Rican Independence Party, the Proyecto Dignidad and the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, request the State Commission on Elections that once the general elections are over, a recount of all early ballots be conducted to ensure that all marks made by the voter have been counted correctly. On the same day, a judge of the San Juan Court of First Instance ordered the State Commission on Elections to continue "without interruption" the counting of early votes, thus opening the door to the process taking place without the presence of representatives of all the conflicting parties.




Governor






Resident commissioner






Senate



Elections for the Senate of Puerto Rico were held on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections. Primaries were held on June 2, 2024.




House of Representatives



Elections for the Puerto Rico House of Representatives were held on November 5, 2024, alongside the 2024 United States elections. Primaries were held on June 2, 2024.




Mayoral






Referendum






Presidential straw poll






Notes






References

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