Malta 1987 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 35 of 69 seats with 50.9% of the vote; 96.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.5 points on 1981.
- Malta
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 35 | +4 | 50.9 | 0.0 | 119,721 |
| Labour Party | 34 | 0 | 48.9 | −0.2 | 114,936 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.2 | 380 |
± is the change against the Malta 1981 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 119,721
- Labour Party 114,936
- Largest party without seats 380
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
96.1% of the 246,292 registered voters cast a ballot (236,719 ballots), up 1.5 points on 1981. 235,168 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 Party50.9% of votes50.7% of seats
- Labour Party48.9% of votes49.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.3 (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 2.0 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.