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With the election being decided by 49 Votes, the 1988 Mayoral election was both the Closest Election San Juan has expereienced, and one that ended 20 straight years of PNP rule of the Alcaldia of San Juan.
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Lawyer and then Secretary of State Héctor Luis Acevedo(PPD-D), defeated then PNP House Minority Leader and former Speaker Pro-Tempore of the Puerto Rico House José Granados Navedo (PNP-D) for the mayoralty of "La Ciudad Capital" (the Capital City) of Puerto Rico
In doing so, begining the Era of Competitive San Juan elections, wherein neither the PNP nor the PPD have been able to establish full dominance in the city as it had existed between 1968 and 1988 with the PNP and from 1948-1968 for the PPD, began in earnest.
Hector Luis won mainly thanks to his showing in San Juan Pecinto 5 canceling out the PNP's historical advantage in San Juan Pecinto 1, and then getting over the finish line thanks to Precintos 2, 3, and 104 netting him votes over the PNP's advantage in Precinto 4 - eventually giving Héctor Luis the smallest victory in San Juan History
The PPD would End up holding on to the Alcaldia for 12 Years untill they lost it to Jorge Santini(PNP-R) in 2000
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Interestingly, the 1988 Election also technically ended ~18 Years of Republican rule of La ciudad Capital. This is because Carlos Romero Barceló can technically be considered a Republican during his mayoralty of San Juan (1), and His Successor, Dr. Hernán Padilla was one of the main leaders of The Republican Party during the 1980s.
- (1) Before 1976 the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico's bylaws mentioned that members had to implicitly or explicitly support the commonwealth status, this was changed in 1974 leading to him Officially Joining the Democratic party of Puerto Rico before the 1976 Elections.
- Before he Joined between 1974-1976, Carlos Romero Barceló was an Ex-efficio member (Acted independent of and was not an official member of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico during this time) of the GOP due to his involvement in the loosely federally tied Partido Estadista Republicano (Republican Statehood Party) whose members sent delegates to the GOP conventions but the party was not the official arm of the Federal GOP - though it was treated as such for national convention purposes, untill the PNP took it's place and the members set up a shell party in 1972 that claims continuation with the PER.
Furthermore, due to both Héctor Luis Acevedo(3), and José Granados Navedo being Democrats(2), regardless of who won in this election, whether or not the PNP's streak continued, the GOP was poised to lose control of San Juan
- (2) Granados was a delegate in the 1978 restructuring convention for the Democratic party of Puerto Rico, and was one of the many Democrats that Left being officially or ex-efficio republicans once the party amended it's Bi-laws in 1976.
- (3)Héctor Luis Acevedo, like most members of the PPD is associated with the Democratic party due to the parties being historically interlinked in Puerto Rico, and the GOP of Puerto Rico being historically (loosely) tied to the Republican Parties of Puerto Rico
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