1898 Puerto Rican general election

February 2026 February 2026 1898 Puerto Rico elections Puerto Rico presidential no 1898 3 27 1900 Puerto Rico elections 1900 General elections were held in the Spanish territory of Puerto Rico on March 27, 1898,A Study of the Newspaper La Democracia, Puerto Rico, 1895-1914: A Historical Analysis Mariano Negrón-Portillo 49–50 1981 alongside the Spanish general elections. The elections were the first and only under Spanish rule, as the outbreak of the Spanish–American War less than a month later led to Spain losing the territory to the United States. The elections were held after the island was granted an Autonomy Charter by the Spanish government on November 25, 1897, which allowed Puerto Rico to elect members to the Cortes Generales and established a bicameral legislature for the island,https://books.google.com/books?id=_kXzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78 Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis Desmond King Robert C. Lieberman Gretchen Ritter Laurence Whitehead 78 2009 JHU Press 9780801893254 with a fully-elected House of Representatives and a Council of Administration whose members were a mix of elected delegates and appointees made by the Governor.Richard Worth Puerto Rico: From Colony to Commonwealth https://books.google.com/books?id=5tFjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73 73 2015 Enslow Publishing, LLC 9780766070042 The elections were held under universal male suffrage with a voting age of 25. Four parties contested the elections; the Liberal Fusionist Party led by Luis Muñoz Rivera, the Orthodox Autonomist Party, the Unconditional Party and the Opportunistic Autonomous Group. The result was a victory for the Liberal Fusionist Party, which won a majority of seats in the new legislature. Voter turnout was 71%.https://books.google.com/books?id=r_EaCXQ-SUcC&pg=PA56 Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 Kirwin R. Shaffer 2013 56 University of Illinois Press 9780252094903 Results House of Representatives Liberal Fusionist Party 82627 25 Orthodox Autonomist Party 15068 5 Unconditional Party 2144 1 Opportunistic Autonomous Group 1585 1 MavaletMavalet Council of Administration Liberal Fusionist Party 5 Orthodox Autonomist Party 2 Unconditional Party 1 Mavalet Cortes Generales Liberal Fusionist Party 10 Orthodox Autonomist Party 6 Mavalet Aftermath The newly elected legislature met for the first time on July 17. However, on July 25 the United States invaded the territory as a part of the Spanish–American War. Following the American victory and the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10, Spain relinquished control of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States. References Puerto Puerto General Category:General elections in Puerto Rico Puerto