Malta 1953 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 19 of 40 seats with 44.5% of the vote; 80.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 5.8 points on 1951.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 19 | +5 | 44.5 | +8.8 | 52,771 |
| Nationalist Party | 18 | +3 | 38.1 | +2.7 | 45,180 |
| Malta Workers Party | 3 | −4 | 11.8 | −7.0 | 14,000 |
| Progressive Constitutionalist Party | 0 | 4.3 | 5,117 | ||
| Constitutional Party | 0 | −4 | 1.2 | −7.0 | 1,385 |
± is the change against the Malta 1951 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 52,771
- Nationalist Party 45,180
- Malta Workers Party 14,000
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party 5,117
- Constitutional Party 1,385
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
80.4% of the 148,478 registered voters cast a ballot (119,333 ballots), up 5.8 points on 1951. 118,453 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1947. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party44.5% of votes47.5% of seats
- Nationalist Party38.1% of votes45.0% of seats
- Malta Workers Party11.8% of votes7.5% of seats
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 6.4 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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