Status vote, November 3, 2020

On November 3, 2020, the same day as a general election, the island's voters faced a two-way status question: should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately as a state? CRS R44721 reports that approximately 52.5 percent answered yes and 47.5 percent answered no. Print both portions. A page that prints only the 52.5 percent does what this diary refused to do with 2017's 97 percent: drop the companion.

This was not 2012's two-question design nor 2017's three-option one. Yes or no to immediate statehood. No separate independence column. No none of the above. Those opposing statehood had one box. That design choice is part of the result. It is also why 2020 is easier to read than 2012 and harder to compare with 1967. Different menus, different majorities.

Congress again did not admit a state. A local yes is a local yes. The Territory Clause still requires a federal statute to add a star. Citizenship remained statutory. The island's residents still did not vote for the president from the island. The same-day 2020 general election had its own turnout; this lesson will not invent a plebiscite turnout percentage beyond what CRS fixed in the yes and no portions.

Estadidad sí o no, statehood yes or no. That is the whole ballot question in a gloss. Compared with 1998's none of the above, this menu forced a side. Compared with 2017, it did not produce a 97 percent, because the opposition did not boycott the same way. The design changes the picture. This board is a gallery of designs.

Honesty: November 3, 2020. About 52.5 percent yes and 47.5 percent no as CRS reports from the CEE. Both portions, every time this vote is named. The certified CEE PDF was not opened in this build; the CRS compilation is the citation. Not a two-question vote. Not a 97 percent. A narrow yes to immediate admission, still awaiting Congress.

The numbered finding stays with the public law, the rubric, or the tally. This lesson invents no percentage, no count of people, and no date that the sources on this page do not support. The English terms are glossed in the text so that the statute can be read without a manifesto.

Sources: Elecciones en Puerto Rico, 3 de noviembre de 2020; CRS R44721, plebiscito de 2020. Freeze 2026-08-22.