Malta 1981 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 34 of 65 seats with 49.1% of the vote; 94.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.3 points on 1976.
- Malta
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 31 | 0 | 50.9 | +2.5 | 114,132 |
| Labour Party | 34 | 0 | 49.1 | −2.5 | 109,990 |
| Independents | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29 |
± is the change against the Malta 1976 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 114,132
- Labour Party 109,990
- Independents 29
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
94.6% of the 238,237 registered voters cast a ballot (225,466 ballots), down 0.3 points on 1976. 224,151 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party49.1% of votes52.3% of seats
- Nationalist Party50.9% of votes47.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.0 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Nationalist Party led Labour Party by 1.9 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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