Malta 1951 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 15 of 40 seats with 35.5% of the vote; 74.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.7 points on 1950.
- Malta
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 14 | +3 | 35.7 | +7.1 | 40,208 |
| Nationalist Party | 15 | +3 | 35.5 | +5.8 | 39,946 |
| Malta Workers Party | 7 | −4 | 18.8 | −4.4 | 21,158 |
| Constitutional Party | 4 | 0 | 8.1 | −1.9 | 9,150 |
| Jones Party | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | +0.1 | 957 |
± is the change against the Malta 1950 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 40,208
- Nationalist Party 39,946
- Malta Workers Party 21,158
- Constitutional Party 9,150
- Jones Party 957
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
74.6% of the 151,979 registered voters cast a ballot (113,366 ballots), up 0.7 points on 1950. 112,625 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Nationalist Party35.5% of votes37.5% of seats
- Labour Party35.7% of votes35.0% of seats
- Malta Workers Party18.8% of votes17.5% of seats
- Constitutional Party8.1% of votes10.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 0.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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