Malta 1955 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 23 of 40 seats with 56.7% of the vote; 81.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.8 points on 1953.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 23 | +4 | 56.7 | +12.2 | 68,447 |
| Nationalist Party | 17 | −1 | 40.2 | +2.1 | 48,514 |
| Progressive Constitutionalist Party | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | −1.3 | 3,649 |
± is the change against the Malta 1953 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 68,447
- Nationalist Party 48,514
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party 3,649
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
81.2% of the 149,380 registered voters cast a ballot (121,243 ballots), up 0.8 points on 1953. 120,655 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 Party56.7% of votes57.5% of seats
- Nationalist Party40.2% of votes42.5% of seats
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party3.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.1 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 16.5 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
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.