2016 Puerto Rican municipal elections

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Majority party Minority party   Leader Rolando Ortiz Velázquez Héctor O’Neill Garcia Party Popular Democratic New Progressive Alliance Puerto Rico Mayors Association Puerto Rico Mayors Federation Leader since February 3, 2015 January 9, 2009 Leader's seat Cayey Guaynabo Seats before 47 31 Seats after 45 33 Seat change 2 2
Election results:      PNP gain     PPD gain      PNP hold     PPD hold

The2016 Puerto Rican municipal election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the mayors of the78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, concurrently with the election of theGovernor, theResident Commissioner, theSenate, and theHouse of Representatives. The winners were elected to a four-year term from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2021.

ThePopular Democratic Party kept most of the municipalities, only going from 47 to 45. 8 municipalities flipped parties, these being Aguada, Aguas Buenas, Cataño, Ciales, Las Marías, Loiza, Morovis, Vega Alta. The most shocking flip was Loiza, which had been underNew Progressive Party control since 1973.^[1]

Incumbent mayorJaime Barlucea Maldonado won his fourth term due to an internal split within the Popular Democratic Party.^[2]

Manuel Santiago Mendoza won the PNP primary^[3] and won against incumbent mayorJessie Cortés Ramos.^[4]

Incumbent mayorCarlos Méndez Martínez won the PNP primary^[5] and his sixth term.^[6]

Previous PPD mayorLuis Arroyo Chiqués announced on May 18, 2015, that he would not seek re-election for a 4th term.^[7] PNP candidate Javier García Pérez won the election, ending 12 years of PPD control of the municipality.^[8]

Incumbent mayorWilliam Alicea Pérez won his third term.^[9]

Pablo Crespo Torres won the PNP primary.^[10] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJorge Estévez Martínez won his third term.^[11]

Incumbent mayorCarlos Molina Rodríguez won the PNP primary^[12] and his second term.^[13]

Edwin Santell Cora won the PNP primary.^[14] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorEric Bachier Román won his second term.^[15]

Incumbent mayorWanda Soler Rosario won her second term.^[16]

Incumbent mayorFrancisco López López won his sixth term.^[17]

Incumbent mayorRamón Rivera Cruz won his fifth term.^[18]

Jorge Morales Wiscovitch won the PNP primary.^[19] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorRoberto Ramírez Kurtz won his second term.^[20]

Roberto López won the PNP primary.^[21] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorWilliam Miranda Torres won his second term.^[22]

Iván Serrano Cordero won the PPD primary.^[23] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorEdwin García Feliciano won his fourth term.^[24]

Previous PNP mayor José Soto Rivera announced on May 14, 2014, that he would renounce to his post on June 30, 2014, and that his daughter, Lorna Soto Villanueva would take over as mayor.^[25] On July 1, Soto Villanueva was sworn in as the mayor to finish her father's term.^[26] She went on to win the PNP primary^[27] and was elected to serve a first full term in office.^[28]

Eduardo González Antelo won the PNP primary.^[29] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJosé Aponte Dalmau won his third term.^[30]

On May 16, 2016, the PPD cancelled its primary after learning that candidate Leslie Eaton Ramos had failed to reveal a previous police booking for an alleged criminal event.^[31] Eaton Ramos took the party to court, and the court decided that the primary had to be held.^[32] The incumbent mayor José Rosario Meléndez won the primary with a total of 4 votes.^[33] The PPD appealed, and the Court of Appeals declared Eaton Ramos officially disqualified, and that incumbent mayor José Rosario Meléndez had to be declared the winner. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico decided not to revise the Court of Appeals' decision.^[34] Rosario Meléndez ultimately lost to PNP candidate Félix Delgado Montalvo.^[35]

Von Rivera Rivera won the PNP primary.^[36] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorRolando Ortiz Velázquez won his sixth term.^[37]

Melinda Ramos won the PPD primary.^[38] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorAngelo Cruz Ramos won the PNP primary^[39] and his second term.^[40]

Incumbent mayorJuan Rodríguez Pérez ran for a second term, but lost to PNP candidateLuis Maldonado Rodríguez, who won his third non-consecutive term.^[41]

Incumbent mayorJavier Carrasquillo Cruz won his second term.^[42]

Incumbent mayorJuan García Padilla won his fifth term.^[43]

Incumbent mayorJosé Santiago Rivera won his fifith term.^[44]

Incumbent mayorSergio Torres Torres won his second term.^[45]

Basilio Graciani Pereira won the PNP primary.^[46] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorIván Solís Bermúdez won the PPD primary^[47] and his second term.^[48]

Waldemar Volmar Méndez won the PNP primary.^[49] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorCarlos López Rivera won his eighth term.^[50]

Incumbent mayorAníbal Meléndez Rivera won his eight term.^[51]

Incumbent mayorJosé Gerena Polanco won the PNP primary^[52] and his second term.^[53]

Incumbent mayor Santos Seda Nazario won his second term.^[54]

Incumbent mayorEduardo Cintrón Suárez won the PPD primary^[55] and his second term.^[56]

Previous PPD mayorEdgardo Arlequín Vélez was suspended by his party on May 6, 2015, because he was accused ofsexual harassment by an employee.^[57] It wasn't until January 13, 2016, until he resigned from his post.^[58]28th district representativeNelson Torres Yordán resigned from his post in theHouse of Representatives to become mayor.^[59] While Héctor Rodríguez Rodríguez won the PNP primary,^[60] Torres Yordán ultimately was elected to serve a first full term in office.^[61]

Incumbent mayorHector O'Neill Garcia won the PNP primary^[62] and his sixth term.^[63]

Incumbent mayorVíctor Ortiz Díaz won the PNP primary^[64] and his fourth term.^[65]

Incumbent mayorJosé Rodríguez Cruz won his fourth term.^[66]

Incumbent mayorPedro García Figueroa won his fourth term.^[67]

Reinaldo Vargas Rodríguez won the PNP primary.^[68] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorMarcelo Trujillo Panisse won the PPD primary^[69] and his fifth term.^[70]

Juvencio Méndez Mercado won the PPD primary.^[71] Nonetheless, incumbent PPD mayorCarlos Delgado Altieri won his fifth term.^[72]

Incumbent mayorJorge González Otero won his sixth term.^[73]

Incumbent mayorRamón Hernández Torres won his fifth term.^[74]

Incumbent mayorAlfredo Alejandro Carrión won his fifth term.^[75]

Incumbent mayorMarcos Irizarry Pagán won his second term.^[76]

Incumbent mayorRoberto Pagán Centeno won the PNP primary^[77] and his fourth term.^[78]

Incumbent mayorJosé Javier Rodríguez ran for a second term, but lost to PNP candidateEdwin Soto Santiago, who won his fifth non-consecutive term.^[79]

Incumbent mayorMiguel López Rivera won his third term.^[80]

Incumbent mayorEddie Manso Fuentes ran for a fourth term, won the PNP primary,^[81] but lost to PPD candidate Julia Nazario Fuentes, ending 44 years of PNP control of the municipality.^[82]

Carlos Rodríguez Rivera won the PNP primary.^[83] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJesús Márquez Rodríguez won his third term.^[84]

Incumbent mayorJuan Cruz Manzano announced that he would not seek re-election, opting to retire after 40 years of being mayor.^[85] José Sánchez González won the PNP primary^[86] and the election.^[87]

Wilfredo Ruiz Feliciano won the PPD primary.^[88] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorGilberto Pérez Valentín won the PNP primary^[89] and his sixth term.^[90]

Incumbent mayorJorge Márquez Pérez won his fifth term.^[91]

Tania Lugo López won the PNP primary.^[92] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJosé Rodríguez Rodríguez won his seventh term.^[93]

Incumbent mayorJosé Avilés Santiago won the PNP primary^[94] and his fifth term.^[95]

Incumbent mayorHeriberto Rodríguez Adorno announced viaTwitter that he would not seek re-election, opting to retire after 12 years of being mayor.^[96] 12th district representativeHéctor Torres Calderón opted not to run for the House of Representatives to instead run for mayor,^[97] winning the PNP primary.^[98] Torres Calderón went on to lose to PPD candidateCarmen Maldonado González, ending 12 years of PNP control in the municipality.^[99]

Incumbent mayorNoé Marcano Riveri won his second term.^[100]

Incumbent mayorOrlando Ortiz Chevres won his third term.^[101]

Incumbent mayorJesús Colón Berlingeri won his sixth term.^[102]

Maritza Sánchez Neris won the PNP primary.^[103] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorNorberto Soto Figueroa won his second term.^[104]

Incumbent mayorWalter Torres Maldonado won his sixth term.^[105]

Incumbent mayorMaría Meléndez Altieri won the PNP primary^[106] and her third term.^[107] The Ponceños' Autonomous Movement, a localautonomous party that had candidates for 2008 and 2012, allied itself with theWorking People's Party to nominate the candidate instead.^[108]

Jeron Muñiz Lasalle won the PNP primary.^[109] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorHeriberto Vélez Vélez won his fourth term.^[110]

Incumbent mayorCarlos López Bonilla won the PPD primary^[111] and his fifth term.^[112]

Previous PPD mayorEduard Rivera Correa was arrested by theFBI on July 10, 2014, for participating in abribery scheme where he would receive money in exchange for contracting certain companies and suppliers.^[113] He resigned his post on September 2, 2014,^[114] and later on September 24, the CEE certified Ángel González Damudt as the new mayor of Río Grande.^[115] David Acosta Rodríguez won the PNP primary,^[116] but incumbent mayor González Damudt went on to win his first-full term.^[117]

Incumbent mayorMiguel Ortiz Vélez won his fifth term.^[118]

Rafael Picó Seda won the PNP primary.^[119] Nonetheless,Karilyn Bonilla Colón won her second term.^[120]

Incumbent mayorIsidro Negrón Irizarry ran for a 6th term, won the PPD primary,^[121] but lost to Virgilio Olivera Olivera, ending 20 years of PPD control of the municipality.^[122]

Leo Díaz Urbina won the PNP primary.^[123] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorCarmen Cruz Soto won her second term.^[124]

Omar Galarza Pagán won the PNP primary.^[125] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJosé Román Abreu won his fifth term.^[126]

Incumbent mayorJavier Jiménez Pérez won his fourth term.^[127]

Marcos Martínez won the PPD primary.^[128] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorEnrique Questell Alvarado won the PNP primary^[129] and his fourth term.^[130]

Incumbent mayorClemente Agosto Lugardo won his second term.^[131]

Incumbent mayorAníbal Vega Borges lost the PNP primary toBernardo Márquez García.^[132] Márquez García went on to win the election.^[133]

Emmanuel Huertas won the PNP primary.^[134] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorJosé Cruz Cruz won his third term.^[135]

Jonathan Tossas won the PNP primary.^[136] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorErnesto Irizarry Salvá won his second term.^[137]

Incumbent mayorIsabelo Molina Hernandez ran for a fourth consecutive term (and sixth non-consecutive term), won the PNP primary,^[138] but lost to PPD primary winner^[139] Oscar Santiago Martínez, ending 12 years of PNP control of the municipality.^[140]

José Galán Rojas won the PNP primary.^[141] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorMarcos Cruz Molina won his second term.^[142]

Evelyn Delerme Camacho won the PNP primary.^[143] Nonetheless, incumbent mayorVíctor Emeric Catarineau won his second term.^[144]

Previous PPD mayorWaldemar Rivera Torres renounced to his post on January 13, 2013, before taking his oath for hid third term.Luis Hernández Ortiz was sworn in the very next day.^[145] While Melvin Vázquez Roche won the PNP primary,^[146] incumbent mayor Hernández Ortiz won his first full term in office.^[147]

Incumbent mayorRafael Surillo Ruiz won the PPD primary^[148] and his second term.^[149]

Incumbent mayorAbel Nazario Quiñones decided not to run for a fifth term, choosing instead to runat-large for theSenate of Puerto Rico.^[150] Ángel Torres Ortiz won the PNP primary^[151] and the election.^[152]

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