The political party strength in Puerto Rico has been held by different political parties in the history of Puerto Rico. Today, that strength is primarily held by two parties, namely:
- The New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish) which holds about 39% of the popular vote while advocating for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States
- The Popular Democratic Party (PPD in Spanish) which holds about 34% of the popular vote while advocating for maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico as that of a Commonwealth,[a][b]
The rest of the strength is held by three minority parties[2]
- The Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) which holds about 12% of the popular vote while advocating for a constitutional assembly and running on a progressive platform.
- The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP in Spanish) which holds about 6% of the popular vote while advocating for the independence of Puerto Rico
- The Project Dignity (PD) which holds about 6% of the popular vote while advocating for a Christian and conservative platform.
Before the 1952 Constitution
editThe following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States insular area of Puerto Rico after 1898:
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the territorial or Commonwealth:
The Puerto Rican parties are as follows:
Acción Cristiana (AC),
Alianza Puertorriqueña (AP), Coalición* (C), Estadista (E), Estadista Puertorriqueño (EP), Estadista Republicano (ER), Puerto Rican Independence (PIP), Liberal (L), Movimiento Unión Soberanista (MUS), Nonpartisan (NP), New Progressive Party (PNP), Popular Democratic Party (PPD), People's Party (P), Working People's Party (PT/PPT), Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico (PPR), Republicano Puertorriqueño (RP), Socialista Obrero (SO), Socialist (PSP), Unionist (U), and Unión Republicana Progresista (URP).
*Coalición was an electoral coalition, not a party.
For a particular year, the noted partisan composition is that which either took office during that year or which maintained the office throughout the entire year. Only changes made outside of regularly scheduled elections are noted as affecting the partisan composition during a particular year. Shading is determined by the final result of any mid-cycle changes in partisan affiliation.
| Year | Executive office | Legislative Assembly | U.S. House[4] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Senate | House | ||
| 1901 | appointed under United States colonial administration |
[5] | unknown[6] | Federico Degetau (RP) |
| 1902 | ||||
| 1903 | ||||
| 1904 | ||||
| 1905 | U majority[6] | Tulio Larrínaga (U) | ||
| 1906 | ||||
| 1907 | ||||
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| 1911 | Luis Muñoz Rivera (U) | |||
| 1912 | ||||
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| 1917 | 13U, 5RP, 1S | unknown | Félix Córdova Dávila (U) | |
| 1918 | ||||
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| 1921 | 15U, 3RP, 1S | |||
| 1922 | ||||
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| 1925 | 17AP, 2U | |||
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| 1929 | 11AP, 7SC, 1PH | |||
| 1930 | ||||
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| 1932 | ||||
| José Lorenzo Pesquera (NP) | ||||
| 1933 | 14C, 5L | C majority | Santiago Iglesias (C) | |
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| 1939 | Bolívar Pagán (C) | |||
| 1940 | ||||
| 1941 | 10PPD, 9U | PPD majority | ||
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| 1945 | 17PPD, 1URP, 1S | Jesús T. Piñero (PPD) | ||
| 1946 | ||||
| Antonio Fernós Isern (PPD) | ||||
| 1947 | ||||
| 1948 | ||||
| 1949 | Luis Muñoz Marín (PPD) | 17PPD, 1S, 1EP | ||
| 1950 | ||||
| 1951 | ||||
| 1952 | ||||
After the 1952 Constitution
edit| Year | Governor | Legislative Assembly | United States Congress | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Territorial Senate | Territorial House | Resident Commissioner | Shadow Senator | Shadow Senator | Shadow Representatives | ||
| 1953 | Luis Muñoz Marín (PPD/I) | 23 PPD, 5 PIP 4 PER | Antonio Fernós Isern (PPD/D) | no such office | |||
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| 1957 | 23 PPD, 6 PER, 3 PIP | ||||||
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| 1961 | 23 PPD, 9 PER, 1 Ind | ||||||
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| 1965 | Roberto Sánchez Vilella (PPD/D) | 23 PPD, 9 PER | Santiago Polanco-Abreu (PPD/D) | ||||
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| 1969 | Luis A. Ferré (PNP/R) | 17 PPD, 10 PNP | 28 PNP, 23 PPD | Jorge Luis Córdova (PNP/D) | |||
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| 1973 | Rafael Hernández Colón (PPD/D) | 20 PPD, 6 PNP, 1 PIP | Jaime Benítez Rexach (PPD/D) | ||||
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| 1977 | Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/R) | 14 PPD, 13 PNP | Baltasar Corrada del Río (PNP/D) | ||||
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| 1979 | Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/D)[7] | ||||||
| 1980 | |||||||
| 1981 | 15 PPD, 12 PNP | 25 PPD, 25 PNP, 1 I | |||||
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| 1985 | Rafael Hernández Colón (PPD/D) | 18 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP | Jaime Fuster (PPD/D)[8] | ||||
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| 1992 | Antonio Colorado (PPD/D)[9] | ||||||
| 1993 | Pedro Rosselló (PNP/D) | 21 PNP, 7 PPD, 1 PIP | Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/D) | ||||
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| 1997 | 19 PNP, 8 PPD, 1 PIP | 37 PNP, 16 PPD, 1 PIP | |||||
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| 2001 | Sila María Calderón (PPD/D) | 19 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP | 29 PPD, 21 PNP, 1 PIP | Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PPD/D) | |||
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| 2005 | Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PPD/D) | 15 PNP, 11 PPD, 1 PIP | 32 PNP, 18 PPD, 1 PIP | Luis Fortuño (PNP/R) | |||
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| 2009 | Luis Fortuño (PNP/R) | 22 PNP, 9 PPD | 37 PNP, 17 PPD | Pedro Pierluisi (PNP/D) | |||
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| 2013 | Alejandro García Padilla (PPD/D) | 18 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP | 28 PPD, 23 PNP | ||||
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| 2017 | Ricardo Rosselló (PNP/D) | 21 PNP, 7 PPD, 1 PIP, 1 Ind |
34 PNP, 16 PPD, 1 PIP |
Jenniffer González-Colón (PNP/R) | Zoraida Fonalledas (PNP/R)[10] | Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/D)[10] | 2 PNP/D, 2 PNP/R, 1 Ind[10] |
| 2018 | |||||||
| 2019 | Wanda Vázquez Garced (PNP/R)[11] | ||||||
| 2020 | 1 PNP/R, 1 PNP/D, 1 Ind, 2 Vacant | ||||||
| 2021 | Pedro Pierluisi (PNP/D) | 12 PPD, 10 PNP, 2 MVC, 1 PIP, 1 PD, 1 Ind |
26 PPD, 21 PNP, 2 MVC, 1 PIP, 1 PD | ||||
| Melinda Romero Donnelly (PNP/D) | Zoraida Buxó (Ind) | 2 PNP/D, 1 PNP/R, 1 Ind | |||||
| 2022 | 25 PPD, 21 PNP, 2 MVC, 1 PIP, 1 PD, 1 Ind[c] | ||||||
| 2023 | |||||||
| 2 PNP/D, 1 PNP/R, 1 Vacant[d] | |||||||
| 2024 | |||||||
| Year | Governor | Territorial Senate | Territorial House | Resident Commissioner | Shadow Senator | Shadow Senator | Shadow Representatives |
| Legislative Assembly | United States Congress | ||||||
See also
edit
Notes
edit- ^ Party platform 2012 (in Spanish) p. 248. "El Partido Popular Democrático reafirma que el Estado Libre Asociado es la opción de estatus que mejor representa las aspiraciones del Pueblo de Puerto Rico."[1]
- ^ Party platform 2012 (in Spanish) p. 248 "El Partido Popular Democrático apoya firmemente el desarrollo del Estado Libre Asociado hasta el máximo de autonomía compatible con los principios de unión permanente con los Estados Unidos y la ciudadanía americana de los puertorriqueños. El Partido Popular rechaza cualquier modificación de estatus que se aparte de estos principios y que atente contra nuestra nacionalidad puertorriqueña o que menoscabe nuestra identidad lingüística y cultural."[1]
- ^ PPD Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz left the party and registered as an Independent.
- ^ Independent shadow representative Elizabeth Torres Rodriguez was removed from her position.
References
edit- ^ a b "Plataforma de Gobierno 2012" (in Spanish). Popular Democratic Party. May 2, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ^ "CEE Event". elecciones2020.ceepur.org. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
- ^ "Senadores en Puerto Rico, 1917–2007" (PDF). Senate of Puerto Rico. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2009.
- ^ Puerto Rico is represented in the United States Congress by a nonvoting delegate, formally called a Resident Commissioner.
- ^ Senate established in 1917 by the Jones-Shafroth Act.
- ^ a b Unicameral legislature named House of Delegates.
- ^ Gov. Barceló switched national parties to the Democratic Party
- ^ Appointed to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- ^ Appointed to fill vacancy.
- ^ a b c Appointed by Gov. Roselló on July 3 after the results of the 2017 status referendum and confirmed by the Puerto Rican Senate on August 15. [1]
- ^ Pedro Pierluisi (PNP) served as de facto Governor from August 2 to August 9, 2019 when his appointment as Secretary of State (and therefore his succession to the office of Governor) was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. (see also Telegramgate)
External links
edit- Chronology of Senators, 1917–2007, Senate of Puerto Rico.