Puerto Ricans voted in favor of pro-statehood candidate, Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon of the currently ruling New Progressive Party was elected on 5 November 2024. She is the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. She assumed office on 3 January 2017 for a term that ends on 3 January 2025.

Puerto Rico's pro-independence party looked like it had little chance to win the island's gubernatorial race — until vile comments were made about the U.S. territory at a Trump rally last week. It still looked likely to lose to the pro-statehood party on Tuesday,

In the 2020 election, it took Puerto Rico's State Elections Commission four days to release preliminary results, and analysts expect similar delays this time. On Monday, the commission was still processing more than 220,000 early and absentee ballots, a count that has been delayed due to logistic issues.

Puerto Rico está celebrando elecciones que serán históricas independientemente de cuál de los dos principales candidatos a gobernador gane.