2003 New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico primaries
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = New Progressive Party primaries, 2003
| country = Puerto Rico
| type = primary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1999 New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico primaries
| previous_year = 1999
| next_election = 2008 New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico primaries
| next_year = 2008
| election_date = November 9, 2003
| image1 = Dr Pedro Rosello.jpg
| nominee1 = Pedro Rosselló
| party1 = New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico
| home_state1 =
| popular_vote1 = 449,315
| percentage1 = 75.82%
| states_carried1 =
| image2 = 3x4.svg
| nominee2 = Carlos Pesquera
| party2 = New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico
| home_state2 =
| popular_vote2 = 139,898
| percentage2 = 23.61%
| states_carried2 =
| map_image =
| map_size = 330px
| map_caption =
| title = PNP Governor candidate
| before_election = Carlos Pesquera
| posttitle = PNP Governor candidate-elect
| after_election = Pedro Rosselló
}}
{{Politics of Puerto Rico}}
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).
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Candidates
=Governor=
- Pedro Rosselló, former Governor of Puerto Rico
- Carlos Pesquera, former candidate to Governor
=Resident Commissioner=
- Luis Fortuño, former Secretary of Tourism
- Carlos Romero Barceló, former Governor and Resident Commissioner
- Charlie Rodríguez, former President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
- Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer, former Senator
File:Luis Fortuño official congressional photo 3.jpg|Luis Fortuño
File:Carlos Antonio Romero-Barceló.jpg|Carlos Romero Barceló
File:SS Charlie Rodriguez.jpg|Charlie Rodríguez
=Senate=
==At-large==
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- Lucy Arce
- Norma Burgos
- Jorge de Castro Font
- Epifanio
- Tomás Fantauzzi
- José Garriga Picó
- Jaime Irizarry
- Armando Izquierdo
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- Kenneth McClintock
- José Enrique Meléndez
- Peter Muller
- Luis Felipe Navas
- Orlando Parga
- Genaro Sánchez
- Jesús Soto Amadeo
- Viruet
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==District==
The New Progressive Party held primaries on all 8 of the senatorial districts.
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===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district I|San Juan]]===
- Roberto Arango
- Donald Cintrón Avilés
- Carlos Díaz
- Danny López
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district II|Bayamón]]===
- Pablo LaFontaine
- Migdalia Padilla
- Carmelo Ríos Santiago
- José L. Ortega Rivera
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district III|Arecibo]]===
- Calvin
- José Emilio González Velázquez
- Víctor David Loubriel
- Waldemar Quiles
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district IV|Mayagüez-Aguadilla]]===
- Monica Alpi
- Carlos Arocho
- Luis Daniel Muñiz Cortes
- Michael Nazario
- Armando Nieves Ramos
- Carlos Pagán
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===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district V|Ponce]]===
- Elyod Maldonado Zeda
- María Meléndez
- Delly Mercado Arroyo
- Andrés Rivera
- Luis Armando Rivera
- Linnette Toledo
- Luinel Torres Acosta
- Nilda Vega Santiago
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VI|Guayama]]===
- Negroni
- Margarita Nolasco
- Osvaldo Ortolaza Figueroa
- Gerald Quiles Ocasio
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VII|Humacao]]===
- Papo Dávila
- Pickie Díaz
- Gabriel Santiago
- Rafael "Rafy" Uceta
===[[Puerto Rico Senatorial district VIII|Carolina]]===
- José Julio Díaz
- Héctor Martínez Maldonado
- Pablo Ramos
- Lornna Soto
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=House of Representatives=
==At-large==
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- José Aponte
- Edgar Berríos
- José Chico
- Rolando Crespo
- José Luis Díaz
- Rafael Escudero
- Jenniffer González
- Luis Maldonado
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- Edwin Mundo
- Omar Negrón
- Lourdes Ramos
- Harold Jim Rivera
- Iris Miriam Ruíz
- Augusto Sánchez
- Luis David Valentín
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==District==
The New Progressive Party held primaries on 33 of the 40 representative districts.
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===District 1===
- Junior González
- José "Nuno" López
===District 2===
- Junior Echevarría
- Diego García Cruz
- William Muriel
- José Serrano
===District 3===
- Tamara Pérez
- Albita Rivera
===District 4===
- Anthony
- Liza Fernández
- Julio Lebrón Lamboy
===District 5===
- Pedro López Santos
- Jorge Navarro Suárez
- Juan Carlos Rodríguez
===District 6===
- José Marquéz
- Angel Pérez Otero
===District 9===
- Nelson del Valle
- Angel García
- Annie González
- Juan "Papo" Soto
===District 10===
- Irma López
- Bernardo Márquez García
===District 11===
- José de Jesús
- Edwin Ocasio
===District 12===
- Edward Santiago
- Héctor Torres Calderón
- Víctor
===District 13===
- Gaby Padilla
- Portalatín
- Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló
===District 14===
- Hiram Cruz
- Carlos Molina
- Santos González
- Yamill
===District 16===
- Gilberto Ramírez Peña
- Iván Rodríguez
- Enrique Ruíz Gerena
===District 17===
- Ricardo Pitre
- José L. Rivera Guerra
- Wilo Cabán
===District 18===
- Charlie Arroyo
- Tomás Bonilla Feliciano
- Jorge Cajigas
===District 20===
- Norman Ramírez Rivera
- Maureen Marchany
- Enobel Santiago
===District 21===
- Peter Domenech
- Edgardo Irizarry
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===District 22===
- Héctor Luis "Tito" Camacho
- Jorge "Jorgito" Pérez
- Javier Rivera Aquino
===District 23===
- Juan García Zavála
- Migdalia Irizarry
- Heri Martínez Piña
===District 24===
- José Alberto Banchs
- John Giménez
- José Moreno
- Wisteria Tejero
===District 26===
- Arkel
- José Luis Jiménez
===District 27===
- Carlos Miguel Fuentes
- Juan Soto
===District 28===
- Miguel Martínez
- Mario Nevárez Rosado
- Erio Quiñones
- Rafael Rivera Ortega
===District 29===
- Luis Aramburu
- Pedro "Banchy" Cintrón
===District 30===
- Pablo Bonelli
- Víctor Juan Enriquez
- Jorge "Borgie" Ramos
===District 31===
- José Ramón Díaz
- Rafael Flores
- José Rivera
===District 32===
- Arnaldo Báez Neris
- Angel Redondo
===District 33===
- Denisse
- Angel R. Peña Rosa
===District 34===
- Cristóbal Colón Ruiz
- Pedro Rodríguez
===District 37===
- Angel Bulerín
- Elías Rivera
===District 38===
- Eric Correa
- Raymond Sánchez
===District 39===
- Chaguito
- Sergio Esteves
- Rafy Reyes
===District 40===
- Epifanio Jiménez
- Josué David Collazo
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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.[http://64.185.222.182/primarias2003/escrutinio/principal.aspx?Partido=PNP&Cargo=GOB&Nivel=ISLA Primarias 2003: Escrutinio General - Gobernador] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041908/http://64.185.222.182/primarias2003/escrutinio/principal.aspx?Partido=PNP&Cargo=GOB&Nivel=ISLA |date=2016-03-04 }} on CEEPUR Also, Luis Fortuño defeated Carlos Romero Barceló, Charlie Rodríguez and Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer to win the spot for Resident Commissioner.[https://archive.today/20120701111426/http://64.185.222.182/primarias2003/escrutinio/principal.aspx?Partido=PNP&Cargo=COM&Nivel=ISLA Primarias 2003: Escrutinio General - Comisionado Residente] on CEEPUR
=Governor=
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! colspan="2" | Candidate ! Popular vote ! Percentage |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Pedro Rosselló | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 449,315 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 75.82% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | Carlos Pesquera | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 139,898 | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 23.61% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Others | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 3,378 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 0.57% |
=Resident Commissioner=
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! colspan="2" | Candidate ! Popular vote ! Percentage |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Luis Fortuño | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 363,217 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 61.36% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | Carlos Romero Barceló | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 151,898 | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 25.66% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Charlie Rodríguez | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 37,828 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 6.39% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 25,075 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 4.24% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Others | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 64 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 0.01% |
=Senate=
==At-large==
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! colspan="2" | Candidate ! Popular vote ! Percentage |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Norma Burgos | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 414,819 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 14.54% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Jorge de Castro Font | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 384,113 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 13.47% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Kenneth McClintock | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 353,344 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 12.39% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Orlando Parga | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 251,920 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 8.83% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Lucy Arce | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 227,455 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 7.97% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | José Garriga Picó | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 174,361 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 6.11 |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | Tomás Fantauzzi | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 159,157 | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 5.58% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | José Enrique Meléndez | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 141,018 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 4.94% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Epifanio | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 129,058 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 4.52% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Viruet | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 108,100 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 3.79% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Jesús Soto Amadeo | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 107,173 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 3.76% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Genaro Sánchez | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 94,305 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 3.31% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Luis Felipe Navas | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 85,272 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 2.99% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Peter Muller | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 80,167 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 2.81% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Jaime Irizarry | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 65,734 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 2.32% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Armando Izquierdo | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 52,355 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 1.84% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Others | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 23,910 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 0.85% |
=House of Representatives=
==At-large==
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! colspan="2" | Candidate ! Popular vote ! Percentage |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Jenniffer González | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 351,424 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 12.66% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | José Aponte | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 318,419 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 11.47% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Iris Miriam Ruíz | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 305,146 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 10.99% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Lourdes Ramos | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 240,761 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 8.67% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | José Chico | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 219,136 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 7.89% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Rolando Crespo | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 209,862 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 7.56 |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | Edwin Mundo | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 193,226 | style="border-top: 1px solid #666666" | 6.96% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Rafi Escudero | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 183,164 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 6.60% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Omar Negrón | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 167,296 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 6.03% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Luis David Valentín | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 147,772 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 5.32% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Luis Maldonado | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 121,228 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 4.37% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Augusto Sánchez | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 105,525 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 3.80% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Harold Jim Rivera | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 66,270 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 2.39% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Edgar Berríos | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 54,128 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 1.95% |
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| style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | Others | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 30,793 | style="border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD" | 1.09% |
See also
{{Portal|Puerto Rico|Politics}}
References
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{{Puerto Rico political parties primaries}}
Category:Primary elections in Puerto Rico