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Socialist Party (Puerto Rico)

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In Puerto Rican elections, the Socialist Party garnered 24,468 votes in 1917 (14 percent) and 59,140 votes in 1920 (23.5 percent). Over time, Iglesias and the Socialists became more in favor of
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which dominated island politics from 1932 to 1940. The Socialists won seven seats to the island's constitutional convention, which convened between 1951 and 1952.
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This article is about the party founded in 1899 and reorganized in 1915. For the party founded in 1971, see
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The party disbanded before elections in 1956, and the leadership directed party members to join the
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Economic History of Puerto Rico: Institutional Change and Capitalist Development
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Historia de Puerto Rico: Unidad #6 (partidos políticos).
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Encyclopedia Puerto Rico. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
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Puerto Rican Socialist Party

Popular Democratic Party
Ideology
Democratic socialism
Socialism
Pro-Statehood
Political position
Left-wing
Red
Politics of Puerto Rico
Political parties
Elections
Puerto Rican Socialist Party
Politics of Puerto Rico

Constitution
law
United States Constitution
Puerto Rico Constitution
Puerto Rico law
Executive
Governor
Cabinet
Chief of Staff
Executive departments
Fiscal agent and financing
Government-owned corporations
Line of succession
Office of the Governor

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