2016 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary

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2016 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary

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Candidate Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Home state New York Vermont Popular vote 54,839 33,958 Percentage 61.14% 37.86%

Results by municipality   Hillary Clinton   Bernie Sanders   No votes

The 2016 Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary took place on June 5 in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton was a heavy favorite to win the territory's primary. In her two terms as United States Senator from New York, the state with the largest population of Puerto Rican-Americans, she gained a strong degree of familiarity with the island. Those connections helped her build institutional support from top Puerto Rico Democrats, including then-Governor Alejandro García Padilla.^[1]

No other Democratic or Republican primaries took place on the same day. The Republican Party's Puerto Rico primary took place on March 6, 2016.