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The Puerto Rico General Elections of 2004 took place on Election Day , Tuesday, November 2 , 2004 . After a count by the State Commission Of Elections , the winner was inaugurated to a four-year term as Governor Of Puerto Rico on January 2 , 2005 . The post of Governor of Puerto Rico and the entire House Of Representatives and the entire Senate , as well as the Mayor s of the Municipalities Of Puerto Rico , and the Resident Commissioner were also elected for four-year terms. For the first time in Puerto Rican History , citizens unable to mobilize to voting colleges for medical reasons, but capable of practicing their right to vote, were visited in their own homes and hospitals so that they could exercise their vote. Similarly, Prison ers mentally capable, exercised their vote days earlier, being Puerto Rico the only country of the world where those condemned are allowed to vote. CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
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RESULTS ''Main article: Results Of The Puerto Rico General Elections Of 2004 .'' The 2004 General Elections were the second closest in Puerto Rican history. PPD candidate Anibal Acevedo Vila got 953, 459 votes, or 48.36%. PNP candidate Pedro Rossello received 949, 579 votes, or 48.19%. Ruben Berrios received 52,660 votes, or 2.5%. Anibal Acevedo Vila was ultimately the winner of the gubernatorial election, but Puerto Rican Law requires that a full recount of the election be carried out since the margin of victory was so small. The full recount was carried, reconfirming Acevedo Vila's lead on the electoral polls. This victory was declared almost a month and a half after the general election. As a by product of the recount, controversy divided the public opinion on the victory because of a vote that became known as "pivazo". When Acevedo became Governor, he was the first Governor in Puerto Rican history that does not have a Resident Commissioner of his same party (in part thanks to the "pivazo" vote), since Luis Fortuño of the PNP won the election against Roberto Prats for the post of Resident Commissioner . The PNP won 42 mayoralty races, while the PPD won 36. The PNP also won 17 of 27 seats in the Senate, and 32 of the 51 seats in the House of Representatives. Two days after the 2004 election, the party's caucuses nominated Kenneth McClintock as the next Senate President and Jose Aponte as the next Speaker of the House. Both were formally elected to those posts at the inaugural sessions of their respective legislative bodies on January 10, 2005. Seen as a whole, the PNP 's victories in almost two thirds of legislative races, well over half of all city hall races and Puerto Rico's non-voting Congressional seat, suggest that voters specifically rejected the party's only major candidate for office, gubernatorial nominee Pedro Rossello , who later unsuccessfully attempted, throughout the year following his defeat, to unseat and replace Kenneth McClintock as Senate president, a contest which has effectively ended. EXTERNAL LINK
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