Malta 1971 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 28 of 55 seats with 50.8% of the vote; 92.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.2 points on 1966.
- Malta
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 28 | +6 | 50.8 | +7.8 | 85,448 |
| Nationalist Party | 27 | −1 | 48.0 | +0.2 | 80,753 |
| Progressive Constitutionalist Party | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | −0.4 | 1,756 |
± is the change against the Malta 1966 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 85,448
- Nationalist Party 80,753
- Progressive Constitutionalist Party 1,756
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
92.9% of the 181,768 registered voters cast a ballot (168,913 ballots), up 3.2 points on 1966. 168,059 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 Party50.8% of votes50.9% of seats
- Nationalist Party48.0% of votes49.1% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.0 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 2.8 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.