Electoral Panorama / Panorama Electoral

The ruling Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) of Chief Minister Peter Caruana narrowly held on to power in a general election held yesterday in the British territory. GSD won ten of seventeen seats in the House of Assembly, for a majority of three over the opposition alliance of the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP) and the Gibraltar Liberal Party, which obtained seven seats.

Although GSD secured a larger parliamentary majority than in the 2003 general election, the popular vote was considerably closer: GSD slipped from 51.5% of the vote to 49.3% (76,334 votes), while the GSLP/Liberal Alliance rose from 39.7% to 45.5% with 70,397 votes. Meanwhile, none of the other parties running in the election secured parliamentary representation: the Progressive Democratic Party won only 3.7% of the vote (5,799 votes), while other candidates received a total of 2,213 votes (1.4%).

Parliamentary elections in Gibraltar are carried out by a limited vote electoral system, under which every elector may cast up to ten votes. There were 16,004 voters out of 19,660 electors, for a turnout rate of 81.4%, slightly up from 79.2% in 2003.

The Government of Gibraltar website has detailed 2007 election results.