Malta 1962 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 25 of 50 seats with 42.0% of the vote; 90.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 9.6 points on 1955.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 25 | +8 | 42.0 | +1.8 | 63,262 |
| Labour Party | 16 | −7 | 33.9 | −22.9 | 50,974 |
| Christian Workers' Party | 4 | 9.5 | 14,285 | ||
| Democratic Nationalist Party | 4 | 9.3 | 13,968 | ||
| Progressive Constitutionalist Party | 1 | +1 | 4.8 | +1.8 | 7,290 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.5 | 699 |
± is the change against the Malta 1955 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 63,262
- Labour Party 50,974
- Christian Workers' Party 14,285
- Democratic Nationalist Party 13,968
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party 7,290
- Largest party without seats 699
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
90.8% of the 166,936 registered voters cast a ballot (151,533 ballots), up 9.6 points on 1955. 150,606 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
- Nationalist Party42.0% of votes50.0% of seats
- Labour Party33.9% of votes32.0% of seats
- Christian Workers' Party9.5% of votes8.0% of seats
- Democratic Nationalist Party9.3% of votes8.0% of seats
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party4.8% of votes2.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Nationalist Party led Labour Party by 8.2 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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