Gibraltar general election, 1988

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24 March 1988

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Fifteen seats to the Gibraltar House of Assembly
eight were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Joe Bossano	Adolfo Canepa
Party	Socialist Labour	AACR
Leader since	1977	1987
Seats won	8	7
Popular vote	60,626	30,562
Percentage	58.2%	29.3%

Chief Minister before election

Adolfo Canepa
AACR

Elected Chief Minister

Joe Bossano
Socialist Labour

Adolfo Canepa
AACR

Joe Bossano
Socialist Labour

General elections were held in Gibraltar on 24 March 1988. The elections were a watershed in Gibraltar politics, as they saw the first win by the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP), led by Joe Bossano, whose candidates took 58% of the popular vote and eight of the fifteen seats available in the Gibraltar House of Assembly. Bossano's party took control away from the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights (AACR), under outgoing Chief Minister Adolfo Canepa. The AACR had been the dominant political party in Gibraltar politics for over forty years and had won every election but one since 1945. After this, it was never to win another general election, while Bossano was to remain in office continuously for eight years, from 25 March 1988 to 17 May 1996.

The share of the votes was as follows:

The first fifteen candidates were elected to the House of Assembly.

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