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There are currently six non-voting members: a delegate representing the District of Columbia, a resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico, as well as one delegate for each of the other four permanently inhabited U.S. territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The resident commissioner of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Comisionado Residente de Puerto Rico) is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years, [1] the only member of the House of Representatives who serves a four-year term.
On June 1, 2021, The Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections certified that Rosselló received 53,823 write-in votes, earning a seat in the delegation over Vélez. [ 16 ] This election had the lowest recorded voter turnout for a Puerto Rican election ever (3.92%), breaking the record previously held by the 2017 Puerto Rican status referendum ...
Pablo Hernández Rivera, the newly elected resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, has pledged to prioritize economic development and equal treatment in federal programs over the sterile status ...
Following the pro-statehood vote in the 2020 Puerto Rican status referendum, the Puerto Rican legislature passed in a lame duck session Law 167 of 2020, [8] replacing the Puerto Rico Equality Commission with the new Commission to the Congressional Delegation of Puerto Rico and establishing an electoral process for shadow delegates to Congress.
Those born in Puerto Rico have American citizenship meaning Puerto Ricans living in any of the 50 states of Washington D.C. can vote for president if they have formal residency.
The Puerto Rico representative districts (Spanish: distritos representativos) refers to the electoral districts in which Puerto Rico is divided for the purpose of electing 40 of the 51 members of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (with the other 11 being elected at-large).
Change in apportionment of congressional districts, ... sends a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. ... Puerto Rico, 1901–present; United ...