1988 Scottish local elections explained
| Election Name: | 1988 Scottish local elections |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1986 Scottish regional elections |
| Previous Year: | 1986 |
| Next Election: | 1990 Scottish regional elections |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
| Leader1: | Neil Kinnock |
| Leader Since1: | 2 October 1983 |
| Party1: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Percentage1: | 42.6 |
| Seats1: | 553 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Swing1: | 3.1 |
| Party2: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats2: | 162 |
| Seat Change2: | 27 |
| Swing2: | 2.0 |
| Percentage2: | 19.4 |
| Party4: | Scottish National Party |
| Seats4: | 113 |
| Seat Change4: | 54 |
| Swing4: | 9.6 |
| Percentage4: | 21.3 |
| Party5: | Scottish Social and Liberal Democrats |
| Seats5: | 84 |
| Seat Change5: | 6 |
| Swing5: | 4.4 |
| Percentage5: | 8.4 |
| Map Size: | 350px |
Local elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1988, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts.
National results
|-!colspan=2|Parties!Votes!Votes %!Wards|-| ||42.6|553|-| ||21.3|113|-| ||19.4|162|-| ||8.4|84|-| ||6.4|231|-| style="width: 10px" bgcolor=|| style="text-align: left;" scope="row" | Other||||-!colspan=2|Total! !n/a!~1158|}
Results by region
Borders
Central
Dumfries and Galloway
Fife
Grampian
Highland
Lothian
Strathclyde
Tayside
