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New Progressive Party primaries, 2003
The 2003 New Progressive Party primaries were the primary elections by which voters of the New Progressive Party (PNP) chose its nominees for various political offices of Puerto Rico, namely the position of governor , for the 2004 general elections . Former Governor Pedro Rosselló was selected as the nominee at the primary elections held on November 9, 2003. He would go on to narrowly lose the 2004 general election against Aníbal Acevedo Vilá , from the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).
Candidates [ ]
Governor [ ]
Resident Commissioner [ ]
Senate [ ]
At-large [ ]
District [ ]
The New Progressive Party held primaries on all 8 of the senatorial districts .
Elyod Maldonado Zeda
María Meléndez
Delly Mercado Arroyo
Andrés Rivera
Luis Armando Rivera
Linnette Toledo
Luinel Torres Acosta
Nilda Vega Santiago
Negroni
Margarita Nolasco
Osvaldo Ortolaza Figueroa
Gerald Quiles Ocasio
Papo Dávila
Pickie Díaz
Gabriel Santiago
Rafael "Rafy" Uceta
House of Representatives [ ]
At-large [ ]
District [ ]
The New Progressive Party held primaries on 33 of the 40 representative districts .
District 1 [ ]
District 2 [ ]
Junior Echevarría
Diego García Cruz
William Muriel
José Serrano
District 3 [ ]
Tamara Pérez
Albita Rivera
District 4 [ ]
District 5 [ ]
District 6 [ ]
District 9 [ ]
District 10 [ ]
District 11 [ ]
José de Jesús
Edwin Ocasio
District 12 [ ]
District 13 [ ]
District 14 [ ]
Hiram Cruz
Carlos Molina
Santos González
Yamill
District 16 [ ]
District 17 [ ]
District 18 [ ]
Charlie Arroyo
Tomás Bonilla Feliciano
Jorge Cajigas
District 20 [ ]
District 21 [ ]
Peter Domenech
Edgardo Irizarry
District 22 [ ]
District 23 [ ]
Juan García Zavála
Migdalia Irizarry
Heri Martínez Piña
District 24 [ ]
José Alberto Banchs
John Giménez
José Moreno
Wisteria Tejero
District 26 [ ]
District 27 [ ]
Carlos Miguel Fuentes
Juan Soto
District 28 [ ]
Miguel Martínez
Mario Nevárez Rosado
Erio Quiñones
Rafael Rivera Ortega
District 29 [ ]
District 30 [ ]
District 31 [ ]
District 32 [ ]
Arnaldo Báez Neris
Angel Redondo
District 33 [ ]
Denisse
Angel R. Peña Rosa
District 34 [ ]
District 37 [ ]
District 38 [ ]
Eric Correa
Raymond Sánchez
District 39 [ ]
Chaguito
Sergio Esteves
Rafy Reyes
District 40 [ ]
Results [ ]
The primaries were held on November 9, 2003. In it, Pedro Rosselló comfortably defeated Carlos Pesquera to win the spot for Governor at the 2004 elections.[1] Also, Luis Fortuño defeated Carlos Romero Barceló , Charlie Rodríguez and Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer to win the spot for Resident Commissioner.[2]
Governor [ ]
Resident Commissioner [ ]
Senate [ ]
At-large [ ]
Candidate
Popular vote
Percentage
Norma Burgos
414,819
14.54%
Jorge de Castro Font
384,113
13.47%
Kenneth McClintock
353,344
12.39%
Orlando Parga
251,920
8.83%
Lucy Arce
227,455
7.97%
José Garriga Picó
174,361
6.11
Tomás Fantauzzi
159,157
5.58%
José Enrique Meléndez
141,018
4.94%
Epifanio
129,058
4.52%
Viruet
108,100
3.79%
Jesús Soto Amadeo
107,173
3.76%
Genaro Sánchez
94,305
3.31%
Luis Felipe Navas
85,272
2.99%
Peter Muller
80,167
2.81%
Jaime Irizarry
65,734
2.32%
Armando Izquierdo
52,355
1.84%
Others
23,910
0.85%
House of Representatives [ ]
At-large [ ]
Candidate
Popular vote
Percentage
Jennifer González
351,424
12.66%
José Aponte
318,419
11.47%
Iris Miriam Ruíz
305,146
10.99%
Lourdes Ramos
240,761
8.67%
José Chico
219,136
7.89%
Rolando Crespo
209,862
7.56
193,226
6.96%
Rafi Escudero
183,164
6.60%
Omar Negrón
167,296
6.03%
Luis David Valentín
147,772
5.32%
Luis Maldonado
121,228
4.37%
105,525
3.80%
Harold Jim Rivera
66,270
2.39%
Edgar Berríos
54,128
1.95%
Others
30,793
1.09%
See also [ ]
Puerto Rico portal
Politics portal
Popular Democratic Party primaries, 2003
References [ ]
show Puerto Rico political parties primaries
New Progressive Party Popular Democratic Party