2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election


The 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2020, 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 Wanda Vázquez Garced, who succeeded to the governorship on August 7, 2019, is eligible to run for a full term in office, which she announced she would do on December 16, 2019.

New Progressive Party

On March 3, 2019, Ricardo Rosselló announced he would seek re-election as governor in the 2020 elections; however, following the Telegramgate scandal and subsequent protests in front of La Fortaleza, Rosselló announced on July 21, 2019, that he would withdraw his bid for re-election. Shortly there after, on August 2, he resigned as governor.
On September 9, 2019, Pedro Pierluisi, who served briefly as de facto governor following Rosselló's resignation, announced he would seek the PNP nomination for governor for the 2020 elections.
On December 19, 2019, Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, who was elevated to governor on August 7, 2019, after Pierluisi's appointment was deemed unconstitutional, announced her intention to seek re-election to a full term as governor.

Candidates

Declared

After the defeat of Popular Democratic candidate David Bernier in the 2016 Puerto Rico gubernatorial elections, the party was mostly divided in opinions on how to move forward to the 2020 elections. While many in the party wanted to keep going with the same ideology of the Free Associated State, Carmen Yulín Cruz expressed a desire to create a new movement in the party, one that would support a free association of Puerto Rico as an independent country from the United States.

Candidates

Declared

Independence Party

On December 27, 2019, the Puerto Rican Independence Party filed its list of candidates for the general election, including Sen. Juan Dalmau as governor. Dalmau previously ran as the PIP candidate in the 2012 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election.

Nominee

After the defeat of Alexandra Lúgaro as an independent candidate and Rafael Bernabe as the candidate for the Working People's Party in the 2016 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, the two candidates joined with other Puerto Rican politicians in March 2019 to form a new political party called Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana.
On November 19, 2019, Alexandra Lúgaro announced her second run for governor, this time running as the MVC candidate.

Nominee

was certified as an official party by the CEE on January 22, 2020. It needed 47,406 petitions of endorsment to be certified, of which it received 47,856.
On May 20, 2020, the party announced that Dr. César Vazquez would be their gubernatorial nominee.

Nominee

On May 5, 2020, the CEE certified the candidacy of Eliezer Ramos after a legal dispute over the amount of endorsements required to ratify his nomination.

Declared

;with Wanda Vázquez
Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Wanda Vázquez Eduardo Bhatia Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%40%20%40%

Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Wanda Vázquez Carmen Yulín Cruz Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%41%15%44%

Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Wanda Vázquez Charlie Delgado Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%42%20%38%

;with Pedro Pierluisi
Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Pedro Pierluisi Eduardo Bhatia Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%38%23%39%

Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Pedro Pierluisi Carmen Yulín Cruz Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%40%14%46%

Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Pedro Pierluisi Charlie Delgado Other/Undecided
February 21–25, 20201,000± 3.1%40%19%41%

Results