Political party strength in Puerto Rico

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]

Political party strength in Puerto Rico in 2020

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
• Project Dignity (PD) which holds about 6% of the popular vote while advocating for a Christian and conservative platform

Before the 1952 Constitution

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States insular area of Puerto Rico after 1898:

• Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the territorial or Commonwealth:

• Senate^[3]
• House of Representatives
• Territory delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

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
1908
1909
1910
1911				Luis Muñoz Rivera (U)
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917		13U, 5RP, 1S	unknown	Félix Córdova Dávila (U)
1918
1919
1920
1921		15U, 3RP, 1S
1922
1923
1924
1925		17AP, 2U
1926
1927
1928
1929		11AP, 7SC, 1PH
1930
1931
1932
				José Lorenzo Pesquera (NP)
1933		14C, 5L	C majority	Santiago Iglesias (C)
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939				Bolívar Pagán (C)
1940
1941		10PPD, 9U	PPD majority
1942
1943
1944
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

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[c]		Antonio Fernós Isern (PPD/D)	no such office
1954
1955
1956
1957		23 PPD, 6 PER, 3 PIP[c]
1958
1959
1960
1961		23 PPD, 9 PER, 1 Ind[c]
1962
1963
1964
1965	Roberto Sánchez Vilella (PPD/D)	23 PPD, 9 PER[c]		Santiago Polanco-Abreu (PPD/D)
1966
1967
1968
1969	Luis A. Ferré (PNP/R)	17 PPD, 10 PNP	28 PNP, 23 PPD	Jorge Luis Córdova (PNP/D)
1970
1971
1972
1973	Rafael Hernández Colón (PPD/D)	20 PPD, 6 PNP, 1 PIP		Jaime Benítez Rexach (PPD/D)
1974
1975
1976
1977	Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/R)	14 PPD, 13 PNP		Baltasar Corrada del Río (PNP/D)
1978
1979	Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/D)[7]
1980
1981		15 PPD, 12 PNP	25 PPD, 25 PNP, 1 Ind
1982
1983
1984
1985	Rafael Hernández Colón (PPD/D)	18 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP[c]		Jaime Fuster (PPD/D)[8]
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992				Antonio Colorado (PPD/D)[9]
1993	Pedro Rosselló (PNP/D)	21 PNP, 7 PPD, 1 PIP[c]		Carlos Romero Barceló (PNP/D)
1994
1995
1996
1997		19 PNP, 8 PPD, 1 PIP[c]	37 PNP, 16 PPD, 1 PIP
1998
1999
2000
2001	Sila María Calderón (PPD/D)	19 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP[c]	29 PPD, 21 PNP, 1 PIP	Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PPD/D)
2002
2003
2004
2005	Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PPD/D)	15 PNP, 11 PPD, 1 PIP	32 PNP, 18 PPD, 1 PIP	Luis Fortuño (PNP/R)
2006
2007
2008
2009	Luis Fortuño (PNP/R)	22 PNP, 9 PPD[c]	37 PNP, 17 PPD	Pedro Pierluisi (PNP/D)
2010
2011
2012
2013	Alejandro García Padilla (PPD/D)	18 PPD, 8 PNP, 1 PIP[c]	28 PPD, 23 PNP
2014
2015
2016
2017	Ricardo Rosselló (PNP/D)	21 PNP, 7 PPD, 1 PIP, 1 Ind[c][d]	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[e]
2023
							2 PNP/D, 1 PNP/R, 1 vacant[f]
2024							1 PNP/D, 1 PNP/R, 2 vacant[g]
2025	Jenniffer González-Colón (PNP/R)	20 PNP, 5 PPD, 2 PIP, 1 PD, 1 Ind[c][h]	36 PNP, 13 PPD, 1 PIP, 1 PD	Pablo Hernández Rivera (PDP/D)	Term expired[12]

See also

• Puerto Rico portal
• Politics portal

• Politics of Puerto Rico
• List of political parties in Puerto Rico
• Elections in Puerto Rico

Notes

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. Per Article III of the Puerto Rico Constitution, if a party wins more than a two-thirds majority (18 out of 27 seats) in the Senate, seats must be added to preserve minority parties' power, equal to the number of seats over the 18-seat threshold.
4. Three seats were added and awarded to the PPD.
5. PPD Rep. Luis Raúl Torres Cruz left the party and registered as an Independent.
6. Independent shadow representative Elizabeth Torres Rodriguez was removed from her position.
7. Shadow representative María Meléndez resigned July 2023
8. Two seats were added and awarded to the PIP and an Independent.