Gibraltar general election, 2015

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17 seats to the Gibraltar Parliament
9 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Fabian Picardo	Daniel Feetham
Party	Socialist Labour	Social Democrats
Alliance	GSLP–Liberal Alliance	-
Leader since	2011	2013
Last election	10 seats, 48.9%	7 seats, 46.8%
Seats won	10	7
Seat change
Popular vote	100,950	46,545
Percentage	68.4%	31.6%
Swing	19.6pp	15.2pp

Chief Minister before election

Fabian Picardo
Socialist Labour

Elected Chief Minister

Fabian Picardo
Socialist Labour

The Gibraltar general election of 2015 to elect all 17 members to the 3rd Gibraltar Parliament took place on Thursday, 26 November 2015. Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced the date of the election on Monday 19 October 2015 during a speech on the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation.

Under section 38(2) of the Gibraltar Constitution Order 2006, the parliament must be dissolved by the Governor four years after its first meeting following the last election (unless the Chief Minister advises the Governor to dissolve parliament sooner). Under section 37 of the Constitution, writs for a general election must be issued within thirty days of the dissolution and the general election must then be held no later than three months after the issuing of a writ. In October 2015, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo announced that the election would take place on 26 November. Following the British tradition, elections in Gibraltar conventionally take place on a Thursday.

The UK-based UK Independence Party announced in 2014 that it was planning on fielding candidates for the first time in Gibraltar's next general election. However, ultimately they did not field any candidates. There were also no independents, the first occasion on which no independents or members of any party outside of Parliament contested the elections.

A GBC public opinion poll of 17 November predicted 67% for GSLP/Libs and 33% for GSD.

The results saw the first occasion on which a candidate won over 10,000. Both the GSLP and LPG received more votes in the elections than in any other previous general elections, with the LPG receiving the highest percentage of votes in its history. Contrastingly, the GSD saw the largest drop in its vote share in its history. Voter turnout (70.77%) was the lowest since 1980.

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