Malta 2008 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Nationalist Party won 35 of 69 seats with 49.3% of the vote; 93.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.4 points on 2003.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalist Party | 35 | 0 | 49.3 | −2.5 | 143,468 |
| Labour Party | 34 | +4 | 48.8 | +1.3 | 141,888 |
| Democratic Alternative | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | +0.6 | 3,810 |
± is the change against the Malta 2003 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Nationalist Party 143,468
- Labour Party 141,888
- Democratic Alternative 3,810
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
93.3% of the 315,357 registered voters cast a ballot (294,214 ballots), down 2.4 points on 2003. 290,799 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1971 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Nationalist Party49.3% of votes50.7% of seats
- Labour Party48.8% of votes49.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.1 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Nationalist Party led Labour Party by 0.6 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.