2024 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election

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 is running for re-election to a second term in office.

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. 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".

Candidates

Declared

• Jenniffer González-Colón, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
• Pedro Pierluisi, incumbent governor

Endorsements

Polling

Popular Democratic primary

After suffering defeat in the 2020 elections, the Popular Democratic Party suffered a major divide on opinions, from the topic of abortion to what political status should the party pursue in the case of a 8th plebiscite. 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.

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. Later, on October 17, she officialized her candidacy in an press conference. Afterward, on January 18, 2023, she stated that she would run for president of the party. On May 7, after coming last on the presidency election, she conceded and announced that she would instead be running for re-election.

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". Zaragoza previously had announced that he would run for governor in the 2020 primary, before withdrawing his candidacy to run as territorial senator at-large.

Candidates

Declared

• Jesús Manuel Ortiz, territorial representative and president of the PPD
• Juan Zaragoza, at-large territorial senator and former Puerto Rico Secretary of Treasury

Withdrawn

• Carlos Delgado Altieri, former mayor of Isabela and nominee for governor in 2020
• Carmen Maldonado González, mayor of Morovis

Endorsements

Polling

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.

PIP nominee

• Juan Dalmau Ramírez, former at-large territorial senator and nominee for governor in 2020

MVC nominee

• Javier Córdova Iturregui, university professor, union leader, and perennial candidate

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."

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.

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

Nominee

• Javier Jiménez, mayor of San Sebastián and president of Project Dignity

Withdrawn

• César Vázquez Muñiz, cardiologist, former president of Project Dignity, and nominee for governor in 2020 (running for territorial senate)
• Ada Norah Henriquez, attorney and nominee for resident commissioner in 2020 (running as an independent)

Declined

• Joanne Rodríguez Veve, at-large territorial senator (endorsed Jiménez)

Endorsements

Independents

Declared

• Victor Luis Medina Cruz, physician and candidate for governor in 2020
• Ada Norah Henriquez, attorney and Project Dignity nominee for resident commissioner in 2020
• Carlos Cintrón Rivera

See also

• 2024 United States gubernatorial elections

Notes

References