Gibraltar general election, 2007

11 October 2007

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Peter Caruana	Joe Bossano
Party	Social Democrats	Socialist Labour
Alliance	-	Liberal Alliance
Leader since	1991	1978
Last election	8 (51.5%)	7 (39.7%)
Seats won	10	7
Seat change	2
Popular vote	76,334	70,397
Percentage	49.33%	45.49%

Chief Minister before election

Peter Caruana
Social Democrats

Elected Chief Minister

Peter Caruana
Social Democrats

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General elections were held in Gibraltar on 11 October 2007.^[1] The incumbent Chief Minister Peter Caruana narrowly won a fourth term, but opposition leader Joe Bossano had a very strong showing.^[2] Joe Bossano noted that this would be his last term as an MP, and joked that he would not join the government, despite receiving a higher personal vote than some members of the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD).

The GSD had ten candidates (all of which were elected), Bossano's party the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) had seven candidates (four of which were elected) and the Gibraltar Liberal Party (GLP) led by Dr. Joseph Garcia had three candidates (all of which were elected). The Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) fielded six candidates five of whom obtained the least votes in the election after a lacklustre campaign. Two independents were unable to break through Gibraltar's party block vote system but did relatively well. They were the right wing lawyer Charles Gomez of New Gibraltar Democracy and Richard Martinez of the Parental Support Group.

An exit poll organised by the Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) had given victory to the GSLP/Liberal coalition, but as counting progressed this proved incorrect.

Results

**Summary of the 11 October 2007 Gibraltar Parliament election results**
Parties¹		Votes²	%	Seats
Gibraltar Social Democrats		76,334	49.33	10
Alliance	Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party	49,277	31.84	4
Alliance	Gibraltar Liberal Party	21,120	13.65	3
Progressive Democratic Party		5,799	3.75	—
Charles Gomez (independent, New Gibraltar Democracy)		1,210	0.78	—
Richard Martinez (independent)		1,003	0.65	—
Total (turnout 81.4%)		154,743	100.00	17
Source: Gibfocus ¹ These figures have been consolidated by party. Under the Gibraltar electoral system, all candidates are listed on the ballot paper individually. ² Every voter has up to 10 votes to vote for their choice from all the candidates standing. Accordingly, although there are more seats available, the main parties field 10 candidates and hope to secure 'block votes'. Thus the total of 154,743 votes comes from 16,004 voters, an 81.4% turnout of the electorate.

References

↑ Searle, Dominique. "11 October: Caruana Calls a Snap Election". Gibraltar Chronicle. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
↑ "Peter Caruana wins the Gibraltar elections". Typically Spanish. 12 October 2007. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2013.

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