Malta 1998 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 35 of 65 seats with 51.8% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.8 points on 1996.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 35 | +1 | 51.8 | +4.0 | 137,037 |
| Labour Party | 30 | −5 | 47.0 | −3.7 | 124,220 |
| Democratic Alternative | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | −0.3 | 3,208 |
± is the change against the Malta 1996 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 137,037
- Labour Party 124,220
- Democratic Alternative 3,208
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
95.4% of the 281,078 registered voters cast a ballot (268,150 ballots), down 1.8 points on 1996. 264,492 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1981 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Nationalist Party51.8% of votes53.8% of seats
- Labour Party47.0% of votes46.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.8 (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 4.8 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.