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Malta 2003 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 35 of 65 seats with 51.8% of the vote; 95.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.3 points on 1998.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Nationalist Party35051.80.0146,172
Labour Party30047.5+0.5134,092
Democratic Alternative000.7−0.51,929

± is the change against the Malta 1998 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Nationalist Party 146,172
  • Labour Party 134,092
  • Democratic Alternative 1,929

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

95.7% of the 297,930 registered voters cast a ballot (285,122 ballots), up 0.3 points on 1998. 282,213 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Nationalist Party51.8% of votes53.8% of seats
  • Labour Party47.5% of votes46.2% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

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 4.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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