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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
Héctor Luis Acevedo, a member of the
Popular Democratic Party. Acevedo defeated his main opponent,
New Progressive Party nominee
José 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 Río 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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