Elections in Gibraltar


Gibraltar elects on the national level a legislature. 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 ten candidates. Gibraltar forms a single constituency but voters have only ten votes. Hence the electoral bloc with the most votes will normally get ten seats and the runners up seven.

Eligibility to vote

People must be qualified to vote and listed on the Register of Electors in order to cast a ballot.
British nationals who have lived in Gibraltar for a continuous period of six months and who intend to live in Gibraltar either permanently or indefinitely are entitled to register to vote in general elections to the Gibraltar Parliament if they will be aged 18 or over on polling day.
Gibraltar, along with the UK, joined the EEC in 1973, and from 2004 eligible voters in Gibraltar were able to vote in elections to the European Parliament. British, European Union and qualifying Commonwealth citizens living in Gibraltar were entitled to register to vote in European Parliament elections if they were aged 18 or over on polling day.
In addition, British nationals and Commonwealth citizens living outside Gibraltar could register as 'overseas electors' and vote in elections to the European Parliament provided that they were on the Register of Electors in Gibraltar within the past 15 years. For British nationals and Commonwealth citizens who moved abroad before they were 18 years old, they could still qualify for registration as an 'overseas elector' in elections to the European Parliament, with the 15 years period calculated from the date their parent/guardian ceased to appear in the Register of Electors in Gibraltar.
Following Gibraltar's withdrawal from the European Union as a result of Brexit, this was revoked on 31 December 2020.

General 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. Elections take place roughly every four years, 17 members are elected at each election, using partial bloc voting. Each voter has ten votes meaning that parties usually stand ten 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 - 7 members

IWBP - 5 members

Independents - 3 members

1972 election

AACR - 52%, 8 members

IWBP - 7 members

1976 election

AACR - 75.3%, 8 members

GDM - 4 seats

Independents - 3 members

1980 election

AACR - 8 members

DPBG - 6 members

GSLP - 1 members

1984 election

AACR - 44.4%, 8 members

GSLP - 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

Independent Democrats - 12.4%, 0 members

1992 election

GSLP - 73.1%, 8 members

GSD - 20.2%, 7 members

GNP - 4.7%, 0 members

AACR - 2.1%, 0 members

1996 election

GSD - 52.2%, 8 members

GSLP - 43.0%, 7 members

GNP - 4.7%, 0 members

Others - 0.2%

2000 election

GSD - 58.4%, 8 members

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 40.6%, 7 members

Others - 1.0%, 0 members

2003 election

GSD - 51.5%, 8 members

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 39.7%, 7 members

GLP - 8.3%

2007 election

GSD - 49.3%, 10 members

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 45.5%, 7 members

PDP - 3.8%
NGD - 0.78%

2011 election

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 48.88%, 10 members

GSD - 46.76% - 7 members

PDP - 4.36%

2015 election

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 68.4%, 10 members

GSD - 31.6% - 7 members

2019 election

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 52.5%, 10 members

GSD - 25.5% - 6 members

TG - 20.5% - 1 member

2023 election

GSLP/Liberal Alliance - 50.04%, 9 members

GSD - 48.15% - 8 members

Key

UK elections

Unlike the other British Overseas Territories, Gibraltar took part as a UK counting area in three European elections and one UK-wide referendum as part of the South West England electoral region.
Some people have advocated, including individual MPs, UKIP, the Liberal Democrats and the Gibraltar in Westminster Movement that Gibraltar should be extended the franchise of voting in UK general elections as a Westminster constituency.