A system and method can provide partition persistent state consistency in a distributed data grid. The distributed data grid can provide a plurality of copies of a partition on a plurality of cluster nodes in the distributed data grid, wherein the plurality of cluster nodes includes a primary owner node and one or more backup nodes for the partition. The primary owner node can propagate one or more modifications of the partition from the primary owner node to the one or more backup nodes. The distributed data grid can ensure consistency among the plurality copies of the partition on the plurality of cluster nodes in the distributed data grid.