Governor
Resident Commissioner
Mayor
This project was completed in November 2024, right after the Puerto Rico General Elections. The goal of the project was to create a web scraper to collect election results data and visualize it in an easy-to-understand format. The above image shows the final results for the Governor race in Puerto Rico.
Created a web scraper to collect data from the 2024 Puerto Rico General Elections, held on November 5, 2024. The data was sourced from the official website of the Puerto Rico State Elections Commission (CEE) and contains all the offices and special election at the island, district, and municipal levels. These are:
The scraper uses Selenium to scrape the website since the content loads dynamically. Then, used Pandas to format the data. The data is then saved in CSV format for further analysis. Additionally, it is visualized using Matplotlib and GeoPandas to create the map and PIL to make the GIFs
The colors in the map represent the political party of the winning candidate at the moment the data was collected. The parties are:
From now on, the parties will be identified with their abbreviation (PNP, PPD, PIP, MVC, PD)
The following GIFs were made with the data scraped every five minutes the night of the election:
Like in nearly all elections, we can see how different municipalities changed winners as the night progressed.
Governor election: Since the first ballots came in, the winner for this race since the beginning, Jenniffer Gonzalez (PNP), was ahead. In the first few updates, the second place was for Jesus Manuel Ortiz (PPD), but as more data came in, the second place changed dramatically between the candidates from the PPD and PIP. For the first time in the history of the PPD, the party did not finish first or second in the gubernatorial election. We can see from the GIF that the majority of the municipalities that were red (PPD) then turned blue (PNP). The PIP candidate, Juan Dalmau, finished second, making this the best election for the party in its history. Juan Dalmau obtained many votes of the in person voting but when the counted votes from the early ballots came in, Jenniffer Gonzalez gained thousands of votes, helping her secure the victory. It is important to note that the PIP and the MVC had a pre-election pact to not run against each other in certain municipalities, which helped both parties gain more votes and said to vote for the candidate of the PIP in the Governor race and the candidate of the MVC in the Resident Commissioner. This election is the third in a row where the PNP has won the race for Governor.
Resident Commissioner election: This race was very straight forward, having a clear winner since the beginning, Pablo Jose Hernandez (PPD). The second place was also clear from the start, William Villafañe (PNP). This race did not have many changes during the night, but the main ones were from PNP to the favor the PPD. For the last place, it was very close were the candidate from the PIP got 4.93% of the votes and the candidate of the PD got 4.96% of the votes. The win of Pablo Jose Hernandez breaks the streak of the PNP winning the Resident Commissioner race. The last Resident Commissioner from a party that is not the PNP was Anibal Acevedo Vila (PPD), who won in 2000.
Mayor elections: As per usual, the 78 mayor races had a winner being either from the PNP or PPD. In the last two elections, 2020 and 2024, the mayor election in San Juan has had a third candidate from the MVC, which has made the election interesting in the municipality. In both elections, the PNP candidate, Miguel Romero, won the election, but with Manuel Natal (MVC) in a relative close second place. We can see in the second frame of the GIF that Natal was in first place for the first data release from San Juan, but as more data came in, the PNP candidate, Miguel Romero, took the lead and won the election. At the end of the event, the PNP won 37 municipalities and the PPD won 41.