2024 Puerto Rican status referendum

A non-binding status referendum was held in Puerto Rico on November 5, 2024 alongside the general elections. This was the seventh referendum held on the long-standing debate about the political status of the island, with the previous one having taken place in 2020.

Puerto Rican voters were presented with three choices regarding the political status of Puerto Rico: statehood, independence, and free association. This was the first time that maintaining the island's current status as a United States territory was not an option. This decision was cited by the Popular Democratic Party, the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, and the Puerto Rican Independence Party to denounce the referendum and call for either a boycott or for voters to spoil their ballots. However, Puerto Rico's governing New Progressive Party praised the island's vote for statehood, in which over half of the electorate cast a vote.

The option for statehood achieved a majority of the vote with 620,782 votes, followed by free association with 313,259 votes, and independence with 125,171 votes. An additional 204,341 ballots were either blank or invalid. The results for free association and independence were initially erroneously interchanged before the error was corrected.