Talk:Senate of Puerto Rico

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When electing the senators by accumulation, does each voter have
 * 1 vote
 * 11 votes
 * samewhere in between.

Syd1435 00:23, 2004 Nov 4 (UTC)


 * 1 vote. Btw, check out it will give you an idea on how does it work.    &mdash;Joseph | Talk 01:08, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

1-the caption of the photograph of the Senate should be modified. The spanish word "hemiciclo" does not translate into "hemicycle". The correct translation is "floor" or "chamber", as in "floor of the Senate", or "Senate chamber".

2-Each voter may cast one vote for a Senate at-large candidate and one vote for a House at-large candidate.

2008 Election
Is the results table for the Senate accurate? It shows the PNP winning all 16 district seats, despite outpolling the PPD by a margin of only 0.3%. Is that correct? I know first-past-the-post elections do produce electoral distortions (my own country used that system in the past), but I've never known of a party with 48 percent to the vote to get 100 percent of the seats. Can anybody explain? David Cannon (talk) 22:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes they are accurate. Since the district Senate seats are not state wide offices, they win with the votes of their respective districts.  However this is not the entire senate as there are also at-large seats, 11, out of which 6 went to the PNP and the remaining 5 to the PPD.  While on a state wide level they appear to have a small margin, on each district the PNP candidates got a majority of the votes.Republikaner (talk) 16:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Republikaner, don't you mean plurality? With only 0.3% of the vote more, I don't think they could have gotten a majority in any district, mathematically.  Maybe one or two.  It must have been a razor thin finish in each and every district.  It's a bizarre result, the likes of which I've never seen before.  The at-large seats, which are much more proportional, were distributed almost evenly.74.240.51.161 (talk) 04:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

The description of the system at http://electionspuertorico.org/referencia/system.html states that minority seats (the "add-on" ones here) are filled when one party has more than 2/3 of the senate seats. Why is there no mention of these in the 2008 results (where the PNP has 73% of the seats)? Is there a comprehensive and comprehensible description of the rules and practices (such as whether the parties use opinion polls to decide how to arrange their "at large" lists) anywhere? Aoeuidhtns (talk) 22:14, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

definition of the 8 districts, and map needed
The article lists the 8 districts (San Juan, Bayamón, Arecibo, Mayagüez-Aguadilla, Ponce, Guayama, Humacao, Carolina), but wikilinks are to articles of some of the 78 Municipalities of Puerto Rico or cities having those names, not to articles defining the 8 districts, which are different. I find the districts are defined within the Puerto Rico constitution, but it's not simple, as some of the municipalities are split across districts. (The Puerto Rico constitution PDF document is linked from top of the Puerto Rico Senate webpage and this is a direct link to the PDF ). Could anyone create articles about each of the eight districts? And, it would be very helpful to find/create a map of the country divided by these. doncram (talk) 21:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

There's a map from the 2002 boundary changes at electionspuertorice.org. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 22:28, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Dividing the article
I think it might be helpful to eventually divide the article. For example, the information about the Presidents of the Senate could go to its own article listing the duties of the President and whatnot, while the current members could go to another article like this one, this one, or this one. Also, the list of former Sentors is bound to get longer and longer, if everyone adds every single senator there has ever been, since there is currently no criteria for who is in it. Thief12 (talk) 23:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)