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Election

An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...

and election results in Gibraltar

Politics of Gibraltar

Gibraltar is represented in the European Union, having been the only British overseas territory which joined the EC under the British Treaty of Accession ....

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Gibraltar elects on national level a legislature

Legislature

A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...

. The Gibraltar Parliament has 17 members, all elected for a four year term in one constituency with each voter getting to vote for their selection of eight candidates. Gibraltar forms a single constituency but voters have only eight votes. Hence the electoral bloc with the most votes will normally get eight seats and the runners up seven.

Latest elections

Elections to the Gibraltar Parliament (House of Assembly)

Below is a series of results from elections to the Gibraltar Parliament and its predecessor, the House of Assembly (which was created upon the publication of the Gibraltar Constitution 1969

Gibraltar Constitution Order 1969

The Gibraltar Constitution Order 1969 was published on 30 May 1969 as an Order in Council.The constitution was the outcome of the Constitutional Conference chaired by Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd which lasted from July 16 1968 to July 24...

). Elections take place roughly every four years, and before 2007, 15 members were elected at each election, using partial bloc voting

Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election...

. Each voter has eight votes, meaning that parties usually stand eight candidates, and the winning party is that which manages to get all their candidates elected.

1969 election

This election took place on 30 July 1969.
AACR
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
The Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights is a now defunct political party in Gibraltar.Like all Gibraltar political parties, it opposed transfer of sovereignty over Gibraltar from the United Kingdom to Spain...

- 7 members

IWBP
Integration with Britain Party
The Integration with Britain Party was a political party in Gibraltar established in February 1967. Although it never won an election, it was briefly in power from 1969 to 1972 when Robert Peliza of the IWBP was Chief Minister.- History :...

- 5 members

Independents (Isola

Peter Isola

Peter Joseph Isola, OBE, GMH , was a Gibraltarian politician and lawyer. He succeeded Maurice Xiberras as leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar , a political party in Gibraltar.-Early life and career:...

group) - 3 members

1972 election

AACR
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
The Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights is a now defunct political party in Gibraltar.Like all Gibraltar political parties, it opposed transfer of sovereignty over Gibraltar from the United Kingdom to Spain...

- 52%, 8 members

IWBP
Integration with Britain Party
The Integration with Britain Party was a political party in Gibraltar established in February 1967. Although it never won an election, it was briefly in power from 1969 to 1972 when Robert Peliza of the IWBP was Chief Minister.- History :...

- 7 members

1976 election

AACR
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
The Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights is a now defunct political party in Gibraltar.Like all Gibraltar political parties, it opposed transfer of sovereignty over Gibraltar from the United Kingdom to Spain...

- 75.3%, 8 members

GDM
Gibraltar Democratic Movement
The Gibraltar Democratic Movement was a political party in Gibraltar. It was the forerunner of the present Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party. Joe Bossano, Chief Minister from 1988 to 1996, left the Integration with Britain Party in 1975 to form the GDM, which later became the GSLP. In the only...

- 4 seats

Independents - 3 members (Robert Peliza

Robert Peliza

Sir Robert John "Bob" Peliza, KBE, ED is a Gibraltarian politician. He founded and led the Integration with Britain Party and was the second Chief Minister of Gibraltar serving in office from 6 August 1969 to 25 June 1972...

, Maurice Xiberras

Maurice Xiberras

Maurice Xiberras is a retired Gibraltarian teacher, trade unionist and politician. He is regarded as being a strong defender of British sovereignty, who believes there is no future for Gibraltar without the continuing close relationship with the United Kingdom....

and Peter Isola

Peter Isola

)

1980 election

AACR
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
The Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights is a now defunct political party in Gibraltar.Like all Gibraltar political parties, it opposed transfer of sovereignty over Gibraltar from the United Kingdom to Spain...

- 8 members

DPBG - 6 members

GSLP
Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its grass roots are deep in the Trade Union Movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union...

- 1 members

1984 election

AACR
Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
The Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights is a now defunct political party in Gibraltar.Like all Gibraltar political parties, it opposed transfer of sovereignty over Gibraltar from the United Kingdom to Spain...

- 44.4%, 8 members

GSLP
Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party is the oldest surviving active political party in Gibraltar. Its grass roots are deep in the Trade Union Movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union...

- 34.2%, 7 members

DPBG - 18.9%, 0 members

Others - 2.5%, 0 members

1988 election

GSLP - 58.2%, 8 members

AACR - 29.4%, 7 members

Others - 12.4%, 0 members

1992 election

GSLP - 73.1%, 8 members

GSD - 20.2%, 7 members

Liberals
Gibraltar Liberal Party
The Gibraltar Liberal Party is a political party in Gibraltar. The party was founded in 1991 as Gibraltar National Party and is led by Dr...

- 4.7%, 0 members

AACR - 2.1%, 0 members

1996 election

GSD - 52.2%, 8 members

GSLP - 43.0%, 7 members

Liberals - 4.7%, 0 members

Others - 0.2%

2000 election

GSD - 58.4%, 8 members

GSLP/Liberal Coalition - 40.6%, 7 members

Others - 1.0%, 0 members

2003 election

GSD - 51.5%, 8 members

GSLP/Liberal Coalition - 39.7%, 7 members

GLP - 8.3%

Note: Percentages can be misleading for parties with fewer than eight candidates

- AACR = Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights
- DPGB = Democratic Party for a British Gibraltar
- GLP = Gibraltar Labour Party / Gibraltar Liberal Party
- GDM = Gibraltar Democratic Movement
- GSLP = Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party
- GSD = Gibraltar Social Democrats
- IWBP = Integration with Britain Party