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1988 San Juan, Puerto Rico, mayoral election
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
, held an election for
mayor
on November 2, 1988. It was held as part of the
1988 Puerto Rican general election
. It saw the election
Hector Luis Acevedo
, a member of the
Popular Democratic Party
. Acevedo defeated his main opponent,
New Progressive Party
nominee
Jose Granados
(the minority leader of the
Puerto Rico House of Representatives
) by margin of merely 29 votes (winning 100,525 votes to Granados' 100,496 votes). Acevedo became the first Popular Democratic Party mayor in twenty years, ending a twenty-year long streak of New Progressive Party mayors.
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Incumbent
mayor
Baltasar Corrada del Rio
did not seek reelection, instead running unsuccessfully for governor.
The election coincided with a
landslide
success that year for the Popular Democratic Party.
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