2016 New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico primaries

The 2016 New Progressive Party primaries was the primary elections by which voters of the New Progressive Party (PNP) chose its nominees for various political offices of Puerto Rico for the 2016 general elections. They were held on June 5, 2016, and also coincided with the Democratic Party primaries in the island.

New Progressive Party primaries, 2016

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Nominee Ricardo Rosselló Pedro Pierluisi Party New Progressive New Progressive Alliance Democratic Democratic Popular vote 236,524 226,449 Percentage 51.09% 48.91%

Results by county or municipality

Previous Previous PNP Governor candidate Luis Fortuño PNP Governor candidate-elect Ricardo Rosselló

Candidates

Governor

• Pedro Pierluisi, incumbent Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
• Ricky Rosselló, scientist and political activist, son of former Governor of Puerto Rico Pedro Rosselló

Resident Commissioner

• Jenniffer González, incumbent member and former Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
• Carlos Pesquera, former Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works and gubernatorial candidate

Senate

At-large

Frankie Amador Alba Iris Calderón Iván Díaz Carrasquillo Ramón Díaz Javier García Cabán Zoé Laboy Abel Nazario Margarita Nolasco Santiago

Itzamar Peña Eric "Javo" Ramírez Mario Ramos Méndez Thomas Rivera Schatz María Salgado Sánchez Larry Seilhamer José Chemo Soto Johanne Vélez

House of Representatives

At-large

Néstor Alonso José Aponte Jorge Emmanuel Báez María Milagros Charbonier Joe Colón José Enrique Meléndez

José Olmos Muñíz Lourdes Ramos Roberto Rivera Hiram Torres Montalvo José "Pichy" Torres Zamora Jesús Vélez

Results

The primaries were held on June 5, 2016. In it, newcomer Ricky Rosselló narrowly defeated incumbent Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi to win the spot for Governor at the 2016 elections.^[1] Also, Jenniffer González comfortably defeated Carlos Pesquera with 71% of the votes to win the spot for Resident Commissioner.^[2]

Governor

Candidate		Popular vote	Percentage
	Ricky Rosselló	236,524	51.09%
	Pedro Pierluisi	226,449	48.91%

Resident Commissioner

Candidate		Popular vote	Percentage
	Jenniffer González	323,893	70.54%
	Carlos Pesquera	135,246	29.46%

Senate

At-large

Candidate		Popular vote	Percentage
	Thomas Rivera Schatz	361,362	16.67%
	Larry Seilhamer	271,780	12.54
	Zoé Laboy	251,732	11.61
	Abel Nazario	216,472	9.99
	Margarita Nolasco	213,886	9.87
	Itzamar Peña	203,609	9.39
	José Chemo Soto	123,126	5.68
	Johanne Vélez García	108,855	5.02
	Alba Iris Calderón	72,397	3.34
	Eric "Javo" Ramírez	64,301	2.97
	Javier García Cabán	58,211	2.69
	Ramón Díaz	53,810	2.48
	Iván Díaz Carrasquillo	46,729	2.16
	Frankie Amador	46,634	2.15
	Mario Ramos Méndez	39,059	1.80
	María Salgado Sánchez	35,661	1.65

House of Representatives

At-large

Candidate		Popular vote	Percentage
	María Milagros Charbonier	267,662	13.53%
	Lourdes Ramos	266,421	13.47%
	José Kikito Meléndez	261,172	13.20%
	José "Pichy" Torres Zamora	256,470	12.97%
	José Aponte	210,191	10.63%
	Néstor Alonso	179,629	9.08%
	Hiram Torres Montalvo	144,551	7.31%
	Jorge Emmanuel Báez	101,584	5.14%
	Roberto Rivera	98,472	4.98%
	Jesús Vélez	79,675	4.03%
	Joe Colón	62,205	3.15%
	José Olmos Muñíz	49,868	2.52%

See also

• Puerto Rico portal
• Politics portal

• Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico primaries, 2016