Talk:House of Representatives of Puerto Rico

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How many senators and Representatives are there?

Senators - 8??

Representatives - 40 + 11 = 51 ??

What is a Representative by Accumulation - is this some kind of At Large election??

Syd1435 02:08, 2004 Oct 28 (UTC)


 * Representation by Accumulation seems to be how Puerto Ricans describe SNTV. This is more or less a system of proportional representation, in that if everyone votes strategically (voters spreading their votes out evenly among their parties representatives, and not splitting votes too much or wasting too many votes on a few people), there is a roughly proportional result. If everyone only has one vote for multiple candidate, the minority can concentrate their votes on their preferred candidates to get a roughly proportional share of the seats, so the minority gets a minority of representatives, and majority gets a majority of Representative. This is unlike what is normally referred to as "at-large" voting in the US, where there's one vote for every seat, which effectively allows the majority to choose all of the seats, rather than a majority proportional to their vote share. STV was a system developed to mitigate the need for strategic voting required of SNTV, but apparently apparently the Puerto Ricans decided to use the older system, either because STV was too complicated or they had never heard of it.68.19.232.215 (talk) 19:20, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

please be advise that the speaker pro tempore at the house is Jose E Torres Zamora. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.145.239.186 (talk) 23:02, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Election by accumulation
With the Election by accumulation (a kind of at large vote) does each voter have 1 vote or 11 votes or what?

203.12.97.47 00:20, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Each elector can vote for ONE candidate for At-Large Representative. Before the elections, the different parties strategically select in which precint each of the six candidates will "accumulate" and all the candidates, the 11 with the most votes are considered elected. However, there is a disposition in the PR Constitution that is activated when one party wins more than 2/3 of the legislative seats that automatically elects however many defeated district candidates are needed for the minority parties to have a total of 17 seats in the House and 9 in the Senate. These candidates become At-Large representatives or senators.

Giovanni12d (talk) 22:43, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

My edits
I attempted to create new party shadings in order to distinguish the PPD and PNP from the U.S. parties. If an administrator feels that these are not suitable, I am not opposed to changing them.

Also, the official website inexplicably does not list the representatives by party, and for some reason list 14 at-large members instead of the statutory 11. So I've listed the extraneous at-large members from the website without party identification or shading because of that lack of knowledge.

I hope these edits are helpful, but in the event that they're not, I apologize. Nevermore | Talk 13:05, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

There are currenty 14 At-Large members instead of the regular 11, because the New Progressive Party won more then 2/3 of the seats and three defeated Popular Democratic candidates became At-Large Representatives. These were Jorge Colberg, an incumbent At-Large representative defeated for re-election, and Luis Farinacci and Rafael Hernández, two defeated district candidates. See explanation above.

--Giovanni12d (talk) 22:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

When did . . . ?
When did the House of Delegates become the House of Representatives? BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:14, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Government/Opposition
I recommend that we add government and opposition sections to the party list under the arc chart, as is common with most parliamentary diagrams. PtolemyXV (talk) 18:50, 1 December 2021 (UTC)