Editing Politics of Puerto Rico (section)

=== 21st century ===
[[File:Votomixto.jpg|thumb|Here is ballot for the 2004 elections in Puerto Rico]]
==== 2000s ====
The corruption led the PNP to lose the 2000 election and the Governorship when he ran again in 2004. In 2000, [[Sila María Calderón]] (PPD) was elected, becoming the first female governor of Puerto Rico, also gaining control of the Senate, presided over by [[Antonio Fas Alzamora]] and the House of Representatives, headed by Speaker [[Carlos Vizcarrondo]]. The PPD also elected [[Aníbal Acevedo Vilá]] as the island's non-voting delegate in Congress.

In 2004, [[Aníbal Acevedo Vilá]] (PPD) was declared the winner by the [[Supreme Court of Puerto Rico]] as [[Governor of Puerto Rico|governor]] by about 3,000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected PNP Senator [[Kenneth McClintock]] as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the PNP's [[José Aponte Hernández|José Aponte]] as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of [[Luis Fortuño]].

During the 2005–2008 term, former Gov. Rosselló's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Senate President McClintock split the New Progressive Party, a split that continued as Rosselló initiated a fourth bid for the governorship against Resident Commissioner Fortuño in an internal primary that was held March 9, 2008, and which he lost. On the PPD side, Acevedo's rocky relationship with the PNP-controlled Legislature was compounded with Federal investigations and unsuccessful indictments of his past political fundraising by grand juries in [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].

In 2008, [[Luis Fortuño]] (PNP) was elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico|governor]], giving the [[New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico|New Progressive Party]] its largest victory in history and beating incumbent Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the [[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Popular Democratic Party]] (PPD) by more than 223,000 votes. Also the PNP won supermajorities in the Commonwealth's [[Puerto Rico House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and [[Senate of Puerto Rico|Senate]].

==== 2010s ====
[[File:Puerto Rico Democratic primary, 2016 by municipality.svg|thumb|{{legend|#d4aa00|Hillary Clinton}}
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{{legend|#d3d3d3|No votes}} Results for 2016 Presidential Election. Though the votes do not count, voters could select a candidate and they do vote in the primaries, which does count]]
The PNP won the seat for [[Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico's sole delegate]] to [[U.S. Congress|Congress]], because of the election of [[Pedro Pierluisi]]. [[Alejandro García Padilla]] (PPD) was elected as the eleventh [[Governor of Puerto Rico]], by a narrow (0.6%) margin, defeating Fortuño 47.73% to 47.13% in the [[Puerto Rico gubernatorial election, 2012|2012 gubernatorial elections]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://div1.ceepur.org/REYDI_Escrutinio/index.html#es/default/GOBERNADOR_ISLA.xml |title= CEE Event|website=div1.ceepur.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115040903/http://div1.ceepur.org/REYDI_Escrutinio/index.html |archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref> On November 8, 2016, [[Ricardo Rosselló]], the son of former governor Pedro Rosselló (PNP) received 41% of the vote defeating five other gubernatorial candidates and was elected the twelfth Governor of Puerto Rico. He was sworn in on January 2, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Puerto Rico: Pro-Statehood Candidate Ricardo Rosselló Wins Governor Race|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-pro-statehood-candidate-ricardo-rossell-wins-governor-race-n680576|website=www.nbcnews.com|publisher=NBC News|access-date=6 October 2017}}</ref> He resigned in 2019 after mass protest as a result of the [[Telegramgate]].

==== 2020s ====
In the [[2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election|2020 elections]]  [[Pedro Pierluisi]] (PNP) was elected governor with 33% of the vote. The elections marked the first time third-party candidates other than [[Puerto Rican Independence Party]] won seats.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-04|title=El PPD se perfila con mayoría en el Senado y en la Cámara|url=https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/el-ppd-se-perfila-con-mayoria-en-el-senado/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=El Nuevo Día|language=es|archive-date=November 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104055657/https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/notas/el-ppd-se-perfila-con-mayoria-en-el-senado/|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> In the [[2020 Puerto Rico House of Representatives election|2020 elections]] the [[Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)|Popular Democratic Party]] took a slight majority of the seats in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives.

In April 2023, Puerto Rico's Status Act, which seeks to resolve its territorial status and relationship with the United States through a binding plebiscite at the federal level, was reintroduced in the House by Democrats.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-status-bill-house-reintroduced-territory-rcna80628 Bill to resolve Puerto Rico’s territorial status reintroduced in the House] [[NBC News]]</ref>

In 2020 and 2024 there was referendums on Statehood, in both cases a majority of favored Statehood.