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Malta 2017 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 37 of 67 seats with 55.0% of the vote; 92.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.9 points on 2013.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party37−255.0+0.2170,976
Nationalist Partywith Democratic Party30043.7+0.3135,696
Democratic Alternative000.8−1.02,564

± is the change against the Malta 2013 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 170,976
  • Nationalist Party 135,696
  • Democratic Alternative 2,564

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.

ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.

Share of the vote

Turnout

92.1% of the 341,856 registered voters cast a ballot (314,696 ballots), down 0.9 points on 2013. 310,665 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1966 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Labour Party55.0% of votes55.2% of seats
  • Nationalist Party43.7% of votes44.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.0 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 11.4 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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