The Green Papers: Puerto Rico 2008 General Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2008. Find 2009 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Primary: Sunday 9 March 2008
General Election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Governor:0 
Senators:0 
2002-2010 Representatives:0(0.00% of 435)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000): 
Capital:San Juan
Sunday 9 March 2008 polling hours 8:00a AST (1200 UTC) to 3:00p AST (1900 UTC).
Tuesday 4 November 2008 polling hours 8:00a AST (1200 UTC) to 3:00p AST (1900 UTC).
 

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Puerto Rico State and Local Government

Puerto Rico 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions:
Democrats, Republicans, Third Parties


15 January 2009: Comisión Estatal de Ellecciones - ELECCIONES GENERALES 2008


22 September 2008: Synchronized to Puerto Rico State Election Commission - General Elections State Electoral Ballot - November 4, 2008.


9 March 2008 returns from an offiical source: Primarias 2008


There are two major parties in Puerto Rico:

  • The Popular Democrats (in Spanish: Partido Popular Democrático, usually abbreviated as PPD) have tended to be pro-Commonwealth and, hence, largely anti-Statehood (though there has been a minority pro-Statehood faction within the PPD) and tends to be more or less aligned with the Democrats of the US.
  • The New Progressives (in Spanish: Partido Nuevo Progresista and abbreviated PNP) tend to be somehat more pro-Statehood than the PPD and also tend to be the more aligned with the Republicans in the US.

[There is also the minority Puerto Rican Independence Party (in Spanish: Partido Independentista Puertoriqueño- or PIP) as PR's principal "third Party"] .

However, any apparent connection of the two major Puerto Rico parties to the two US Major Parties (outside of the selection of Puerto Rico's delegates to each Party's National Convention) is as much one of convenience as it is of reality (the PPD tends to be the more liberal Party [and, much like the Democrats in the US, it is a coalition of political factions ranging from the moderately conservative to the somewhat radically socialist], while the PNP tends to be the more conservative Party [and, much like the GOP here, is the more homogeneous of the two-- with fewer "wings", most to the right of center]). Therefore, when relating the two major Parties in Puerto Rico to the two Major US Parties, one must do so most carefully, as such connections are, in the main, still rather indirect.

There are separate Democratic and Republican Party organizations (not directly connected to the Party organizations of the PPD or PNP) in relation to the Commonwealth's selection of delegates to the Major Parties' respective quadrennial National Conventions.

 
           

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Territorial Governor

Seat up for election Partido Popular Democrático Governor Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Renominated - 9 March 2008 Primary
 Polls: Toss-up - Partido Nuevo Progresista Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuño slightly favored over Partido Popular Democrático Governor Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá
  Elected Partido Nuevo Progresista 1,025,945 52.84% Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuño
  Candidate Partido Popular Democrático 801,053 41.26% Governor Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá
  Candidate Partido Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico 53,690 2.77% Rogelio Figueroa García
  Candidate Partido Independentista Puertoriqueño 39,590 2.04% Edwin Irizarry Mora
  Candidate Scattering 13,215 0.68% NOMINACIÓN DIRECTA
  Candidate Scattering 4,888 0.25% NULAS
  Candidate Scattering 3,282 0.17% EN BLANCO
  Candidate Write-in; (Partido Nuevo Progresista)     former Governor Pedro Roselló
Lost the 9 March 2008 Primary. Running as a write-in in the General Election.
Total 1,941,663 100.00%  
  
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Puerto Rican Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila along with a number of associates were changed with campaign finance law violations including conspiracy, making false statements, and wire fraud.

Resident Commissioner to the House of Representatives  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

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Seat up for election
Open
Partido Nuevo Progresista Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuño
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Open Seat - Candidate for Governor in 2008
 Polls: Partido Popular Democrático Alfredo Salazar
 ** Open Office (no incumbent) **
  Elected Partido Nuevo Progresista 1,010,285 52.72% Pedro Pierluisi
FEC H8PR00062: $1,597,246
  Candidate Partido Popular Democrático 810,093 42.27% Alfredo Salazar
Filed with the FEC as a Democrat.

FEC H8PR00088: $538,827
  Candidate Partido Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico 46,123 2.41% Carlos Alberto Velázquez
Filed as Carlos Alberto Velázquez Lopez with the FEC.

FEC H8PR00104: Financial report not available
  Candidate Partido Independentista Puertoriqueño 37,865 1.98% Jessica Martínez-Birriel
FEC H8PR00096: $13,475
  Candidate Scattering 4,888 0.26% NULAS
  Candidate Scattering 3,719 0.19% NOMINACIÓN DIRECTA
  Candidate Scattering 3,282 0.17% EN BLANCO
Total 1,916,255 100.00%  

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Other Third Parties
  Partido Independentista Puertoriqueño: 2 candidates
  Partido Nuevo Progresista: 1 incumbent, 3 candidates
  Partido Popular Democrático: 1 incumbent, 2 candidates
  Partido Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico: 2 candidates
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Scattering: 6 candidates
  Write-in: 1 candidate
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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