Country: | Puerto Rico |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 2020 |
Next Election: | 2028 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 2028 |
Election Date: | November 5, 2024 |
Image1: | Jenniffer Gonzalez (alt crop).jpg |
Nominee1: | Jenniffer González-Colón |
Party1: | New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico) |
Alliance1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Nominee2: | Jesús Manuel Ortiz |
Party2: | Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico) |
Alliance2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Image3: | 3x4.svg |
Nominee3: | Javier Córdova Iturregui |
Party3: | Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana |
Image4: | Senador-17 (closer crop).jpg |
Nominee4: | Juan Dalmau |
Party4: | Independence Party (Puerto Rico) |
Alliance4: | Alianza de País |
Image5: | Javier Jiménez (cropped).jpg |
Nominee5: | Javier Jiménez |
Party5: | Project Dignity |
Governor | |
Before Election: | Pedro Pierluisi |
Before Party: | New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico |
Alliance5: | Republican |
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]
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.
On March 20, 2022, during the New Progressive Party's general assembly, governor Pedro Pierluisi announced that he would run for a second term. 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 Commissoner Jenniffer González Colón won the primary against Governor Pierluisi, becoming the first-ever female gubernational nominee for the New Progressive Party.
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Pedro Pierluisi | Jenniffer González Colón | Others | Undecided | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pasquines | 22–30 May 2024 | 483 (RV) | – | 63% | 35% | 1% | 1% | ||
Noticel and Atlas Intel | 8–12 October 2023 | 2,350 (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% |
After suffering defeat in the 2020 elections, the Popular Democratic Party suffered a major divide on opinions, from the topic of abortion[5] to what political status should the party pursue in the case of a 8th plebiscite.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8] Later, on October 17, she officialized her candidacy in an press conference.[9] Afterward, on January 18, 2023, she stated that she would run for president of the party.[10] On May 7, after coming last on the presidency election, she conceded and announced that she would instead be running for re-election.[11]
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".[12] Zaragoza previously had announced that he would run for governor in the 2020 primary,[13] before withdrawing his candidacy to run as territorial senator at-large.[14]
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Jesús Manuel Ortiz | Carlos Delgado Altieri | José Luis Dalmau | Juan Zaragoza | Luis Javier Hernández | Carmen Maldonado González | Others | Undecided / 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% |
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.[17]
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."[18]
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.[19]
Henriquez announced in December 2023 that she would run as an independent, leaving Jiménez as the only candidate seeking the PD nomination.