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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2020 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary
| country = Puerto Rico
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2016 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary
| previous_year = 2016
| next_election = 2024 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary
| next_year = 2024
| election_date = July 12, 2020
| outgoing_members = [[2020 Louisiana Democratic presidential primary|LA]]
| elected_members = [[2020 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary|CT]]
| votes_for_election = 58 delegates (51 pledged, 7 unpledged)<br />to the [[2020 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]]
| candidates =
| image1 = File:Joe Biden February 2020 crop.jpg
| image_size = 150x150px
| candidate1 = '''[[Joe Biden]]'''
| color1 = 224192
| home_state1 = [[Delaware]]
| delegate_count1 = '''44'''
| popular_vote1 = '''3,930'''
| percentage1 = '''55.97%'''
| image2 = File:Bernie Sanders March 2020 (cropped).jpg
| candidate2 = [[Bernie Sanders]]<br />(withdrawn)
| color2 = 228b22
| home_state2 = [[Vermont]]
| delegate_count2 = 5
| popular_vote2 = 932
| percentage2 = 13.27%
| image3= File:Michael Bloomberg by Gage Skidmore (cropped).jpg
|candidate3 = [[Michael Bloomberg]]<br />(withdrawn)
|color3 = 9370db
| home_state3 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| delegate_count3 = 2
| popular_vote3 = 894
| percentage3 = 12.73%
| party_name = no
| map_image = Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary election results by senatorial district, 2020.svg
| map_size = 250px
| map_caption = Election results by [[Puerto Rico senatorial districts|senatorial district]]
{{legend|#224192|Joe Biden}}
}}
{{ElectionsPR}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%;text-align:center;float:right;padding:5px;"
! colspan="2"| Pledged [[2020 Democratic National Convention|national<br/>convention]] delegates
|-
! Type
! {{abbr|Del.|Delegates}}
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district I|SDI]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district II|SDII]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district III|SDIII]]
| 5
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district IV|SDIV]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district V|SDV]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VI|SDVI]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VII|SDVII]]
| 4
|-
| [[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VIII|SDVIII]]
| 4
|-
| {{abbr|PLEO|Party leaders and elected officials}}
| 7
|-
| At-large
| 11
|-
! Total pledged delegates
! 51
|}
The '''2020 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary''' took place on July 12, 2020, a Sunday, in the [[2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|Democratic Party primaries]] for the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/498996-puerto-rico-democrats-set-2020-primary-we-have-no-alternative-but-to-comply |title=Puerto Rico Democrats set 2020 primary: 'We have no alternative but to comply with the law' |first=Rafael |last=Bernal |date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=May 24, 2020|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref> The primary was originally scheduled for March 29, 2020, but was postponed twice because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico|COVID-19 pandemic]]. The [[Puerto Rico]] primary was an [[Open primaries in the United States|open primary]], with the territory awarding 58 [[Delegate (American politics)#Democratic Party|delegates]], of which 51 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
Presumptive nominee and former vice president [[Joe Biden]] won with 56%, but lost a rather unusual number of votes and delegates in the penultimate primary to withdrawn candidates, senator [[Bernie Sanders]] and former mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]]. With both of them winning around 13% and respectively five and two delegates on the district-level, together they received 26% of the vote, and spoiled ballots (blank ballots, as well as undervotes and overvotes) also made up more than 10% of the votes.
==Procedure==
The Puerto Rico Democratic primary had been originally scheduled for June 7, 2020,<ref name="FHQ-primarydates">{{cite web|last1=Putnam|first1=Josh|title=The 2020 Presidential Primary Calendar|url=https://frontloading.blogspot.com/p/2020-presidential-primary-calendar.html|publisher=Frontloading HQ|access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref> but on August 2, 2019, then-governor [[Ricardo Rosselló]] signed a law that moved the date to the last Sunday in March, which would have been on March 29.<ref name="NBC2019">{{cite news|last1=Suzanne|first1=Gamboa|title=Puerto Rico moves up 2020 Democratic primary to March|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-moves-2020-democratic-primary-date-march-n1038801|work=NBC News|date=August 2, 2019|access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref> Due to concerns amid the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, governor [[Wanda Vázquez Garced|Wanda Vázquez]] first postponed the date to April 26, 2020,<ref name=delayapproved>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/puerto-rico-postpones-presidential-primary-140734|title=Puerto Rico postpones presidential primary|first=Zach|last=Montellaro|work=[[Politico]]|date=March 21, 2020|access-date=March 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name="covid-postponing">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/16/postponing-primaries-here-how-states-responding-coronavirus/5058500002/|title=List of states delaying their presidential primaries grows as Maryland pushes to June|date=March 16, 2020|last=Morin|first=Rebecca|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|access-date=March 17, 2020}}</ref> signing the approvement on March 21.<ref name=delayapproved/> Later on April 2, the local Democratic party, as it was allowed to by the territory's new law, postponed the primary indefinitely until a new date would be chosen.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/490890-puerto-rico-delays-its-primary-a-second-time|title=Puerto Rico delays its primary a second time|first=Rafael|last=Bernal|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|date=April 2, 2020|access-date=April 3, 2020}}</ref> On May 21, the party announced the primary date for July 12, meaning it would be the penultimate contest, only before [[2020 Connecticut Democratic presidential primary|Connecticut's primary]] held much later in August.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/498996-puerto-rico-democrats-set-2020-primary-we-have-no-alternative-but-to-comply |title=Puerto Rico Democrats set 2020 primary: 'We have no alternative but to comply with the law' |first=Rafael |last=Bernal |date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=22 September 2023|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>
In the open primary, candidates had to meet a threshold of 15 percent at the district level (using the senatorial districts for the [[Senate of Puerto Rico|territory's senate]]) or across the entire territory in order to be considered viable. The 51 pledged delegates to the [[2020 Democratic National Convention]] were allocated proportionally on the basis of the results of the primary. Of these, between four and five were allocated to each of the [[Puerto Rico senatorial districts|territory's eight senatorial districts]], and another seven were allocated to party leaders and elected officials (PLEO delegates), in addition to eleven at-large delegates. Due to the original March date as part of Stage I on the primary timetable, the Puerto Rico primary had received no bonus delegates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Democratic Timing Penalties and Bonuses|url=https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P20/D-Timing.phtml|publisher=The Green Papers|date=November 24, 2021|access-date=March 19, 2022}}</ref>
While district-level delegates for the national convention were voted on in the primary ballot, the state convention voted on July 26, 2020 on the eleven at-large and seven pledged PLEO delegates for the Democratic National Convention. In addition, if presidential candidates were entitled to more district delegates than delegate candidates presented, additional delegates were chosen at the state convention. The delegation also included seven unpledged PLEO delegates: seven members of the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref name="PR-GP-delegates"/>
==Candidates==
The following candidates were on the ballot in Puerto Rico:
'''Running'''
*[[Joe Biden]]
'''Withdrawn'''
*[[Michael Bloomberg]]
*[[Pete Buttigieg]]
*[[Tulsi Gabbard]]
*[[Amy Klobuchar]]
*[[Bernie Sanders]]
*[[Tom Steyer]]
*[[Elizabeth Warren]]
==Results==
<section begin="PRresults" />
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right;"
|+ style="background-color:#f2f2f2;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | 2020 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary<ref name="PR-CEE-results">{{cite web|url=http://democrata2020.ceepur.org/ESCRUTINIO_GENERAL_89/index.html#es/default/PRESIDENTE_Resumen.xml|title=Presidente: Resultados Isla|trans-title=President: Island Results|publisher=Comisión Estatal de Elecciones|access-date=22 July 2020|language=es}}</ref>
! style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! Votes
! %
! Delegates<ref name="PR-GP-delegates">{{cite web|url=https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P20/PR-D|title=2020 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: Puerto Rico Democrat|website=The Green Papers|access-date=12 July 2020}}</ref>
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Biden, Joe" | '''[[Joe Biden]]'''
| '''3,930'''
| '''55.97'''
| '''44'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Sanders, Bernie" | [[Bernie Sanders]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 932
| 13.27
| 5
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Bloomberg, Michael" | [[Michael Bloomberg]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 894
| 12.73
| 2
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Gabbard, Tulsi" | [[Tulsi Gabbard]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 194
| 2.76
| rowspan=6 {{N/A|}}
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Buttigieg, Pete" | [[Pete Buttigieg]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 158
| 2.25
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Warren, Elizabeth" | [[Elizabeth Warren]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 101
| 1.44
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Steyer, Tom" | [[Tom Steyer]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 62
| 0.88
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="Klobuchar, Amy" | [[Amy Klobuchar]] <small>(withdrawn)</small>
| 31
| 0.44
|-
| style="text-align:left;" data-sort-value="ZZ" | ''Undervotes'' / ''Overvotes'' / ''Blank Ballots''
| {{efn|Under 356, over 89, blank 275 votes}}720
| 10.25
|-
! Total
! 7,022
!100%
!51
|}<section end="PRresults" />
==References==
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==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P20/PR-D The Green Papers Democratic Party delegate allocation summary]
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVPe23muQE-V6RGBlAA8zz9VJRIaggG4/view Puerto Rico Democratic Party delegate selection plan]
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