2024 Puerto Rico Senate election

2024 Puerto Rico Senate elections
November 5, 2024
All 27 seats in the Senate of Puerto Rico
14 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Thomas Rivera Schatz Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz María de Lourdes Santiago
Party New Progressive Popular Democratic Independence
Leader since January 2, 2017 January 2, 2025 January 2, 2021
Seats before 10 12 1
Seats after 19 5 2
Seat change 9 7 1
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Joanne Rodríguez Veve Eliezer Molina
(write-in) 		Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
Party Project Dignity Independent Citizens' Victory
Leader since January 2, 2021 — January 2, 2021
Seats before 1 1 2
Seats after 1 1 0
Seat change 2
President of the Senate before election

José Dalmau Santiago
Popular Democratic

Elected President of the Senate

Thomas Rivera Schatz
New Progressive

The 2024 Puerto Rico Senate election was held on November 5, 2024, to elect the members of the 28th Senate of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of the Governor, the Resident Commissioner, the House of Representatives, and the mayors of the 78 municipalities, as well as the election events of a status referendum and a presidential straw poll. As candidates in the 2024 general elections, the winners were elected to serve a four-year term from January 2, 2025 to January 2, 2029.

This was the first Puerto Rico Senate election with a successful write-in candidate, Eliezer Molina, who won one of the 11 at-large seats after receiving 71,254 votes.


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