U.S. Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s former nonvoting delegate to the U.S. Congress and an ally of Donald Trump, is leading in the island’s gubernatorial race, likely extending her pro-statehood party’s streak in control of the United States’ most populous unincorporated territory.

Jenniffer González of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party is leading polls in a historic gubernatorial election that could see her party secure a third consecutive term for the first time.

Puerto Rico awaited election results late Tuesday that will be historic regardless of which of the two top candidates in the lead wins. If Jenniffer González of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party wins Tuesday's election,

Residents of Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, but they can't vote in presidential general elections. That’s because territories don’t have Electoral College votes.

The two parties that have dominated Puerto Rican politics for decades are losing their grip as they face the stiffest competition yet from a younger generation fed up with the island’s corruption, chronic power outages and mismanagement of public funds.