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23rd Senate of Puerto Rico
23rd Senate of Puerto Rico
In session
	January 2, 2005 – January 1, 2009
Leadership
President	Kenneth McClintock
President pro tem	Orlando Parga
Majority Leader	Margarita Nolasco
Majority Whip	Carlos Pagán
Minority Leader	José Luis Dalmau
Minority Whip	Sila Mari González
Structure
Seats	27 voting members
Parties represented	PNP; PPD; PIP
Legislature
	15th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
Lower house
	27th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
Sessions
1st
1st	January 14, 2005 – January 12, 2006
2nd	January 13, 2006 – January 11, 2007
3rd	January 12, 2007 – January 10, 2008
4th	January 11, 2008 – January 1, 2009
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23rd Senate of Puerto Rico

Session of the Puerto Rico Legislature

The 23rd Senate of Puerto Rico was the upper house of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico that met from January 2, 2005, to January 1, 2009. All members were elected in the General Elections of 2004. The Senate had a majority of members from the New Progressive Party (PNP).

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District	Name	Party
I – San Juan	Roberto Arango	PNP
I – San Juan	Carlos Díaz	PNP
II – Bayamón	Migdalia Padilla Alvelo	PNP
II – Bayamón	Carmelo Ríos Santiago	PNP
III – Arecibo	José Emilio González Velázquez	PNP
III – Arecibo	Pedro Rossello	PNP
IV – Mayagüez-Aguadilla	Luis Daniel Muñiz Cortes	PNP
IV – Mayagüez-Aguadilla	Carlos Pagán	PNP
V – Ponce	Modesto Agosto Alicea	PPD
V – Ponce	Bruno Ramos	PPD
VI – Guayama	Margarita Nolasco	PNP
VI – Guayama	Cirilo Tirado Rivera	PPD
VII – Humacao	José Luis Dalmau	PPD
VII – Humacao	Sixto Hernández Serrano	PPD
VIII – Carolina	Héctor Martínez Maldonado	PNP
VIII – Carolina	Lornna Soto Villanueva	PNP
At-Large	Luz Arce Ferrer	PNP
	Eudaldo Báez Galib	PPD
	Norma Burgos	PNP
	Jorge De Castro Font	PNP
	Antonio Fas Alzamora	PPD
	José Garriga Picó	PNP
	Sila María González Calderón	PPD
	Juan Eugenio Hernández Mayoral	PPD
	Kenneth McClintock	PNP
	Orlando Parga Figueroa	PNP
	María de Lourdes Santiago	PIP

Party		At-large			District			Total seats
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats
	New Progressive Party	845,228	44.74	6	1,845,204	48.84	11	17
	Popular Democratic Party	767,626	40.63	4	1,768,374	46.81	5	9
	Puerto Rican Independence Party	178,541	9.45	1	160,632	4.25	0	1
	Independent Movement of the Eastern Region				2,936	0.08	0	0
	Other parties	297	0.02	0	826	0.02	0	0
	Independents	97,673	5.17	0				0
Total		1,889,365	100.00	11	3,777,972	100.00	16	27

Valid votes		1,889,365	99.10
Invalid votes		5,318	0.28
Blank votes		11,927	0.63
Total votes		1,906,610	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		2,440,131	78.14
Source: Puerto Rico Election Archive

23rd Senate of Puerto Rico

Position	Name	Party	District
President of the Senate	Kenneth McClintock	PNP	At-Large
President pro Tempore	Orlando Parga Figueroa	PNP	At-Large
Majority Leader	Margarita Nolasco	PNP	VI
Majority Whip	Carlos Pagán	PNP	IV
Minority Leader	José Luis Dalmau	PPD	VII
Minority Whip	Sila Mari González	PPD	At-Large