European elections in Malta 2009

European elections in Malta 2009

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.77%

40.49%

2.34%

2.40%

PL

PN

AD

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2004

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

+ 6.35  % p

+ 0.73  % p

-6.99  % p

-0.09  % p

PL

PN

AD

Otherwise.

Distribution of seats

  

A total of 5 seats

• PL : 3
• PN : 2

The European elections in Malta 2009 took place on June 6th, 2009 together with the Maltese local elections. It was carried out in the course of the EU- wide European elections in 2009 , with 5 of the 736 seats in the European Parliament in Malta . With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in December 2011, another Maltese MEP moved into parliament.

The election took place according to the preferential voting system in which the parties present lists of candidates, but the voters ultimately cast their votes for certain candidates, whereby they can specify a first and a second preference. The whole of Malta was considered a single constituency .

In addition to the two large parties, the social democratic Partit Laburista (PL) and the conservative Partit Nazzjonalista (PN), which had previously been represented by three or two members in the European Parliament, numerous other parties competed, but only one of their lists comprised up to three candidates. These were the green Alternattiva Demokratika (AD), which did surprisingly well in the 2004 European elections with 9.3% but did not win a seat, as well as the Alleanza Liberali , the Alpha Partit Demokratiku Liberali , the right-wing conservative Azzjoni Nazzjonali , the right-wing extremist Imperium Europa (IE), the KUL Ewropa , the Eurosceptic Libertas Malta and the Partit tal-Ajkla . There were 34 candidates in total.

The turnout was 78.8%, the highest turnout in the 2009 European elections except in Belgium and Luxembourg (where voting was compulsory). The winner was the PL with around 54.8% of the first preference votes cast, while the PN came in at 40.5%. All other parties fared significantly worse: AD came to 2.4%, IE to 1.4%. The conservative MP Simon Busuttil was the only candidate who achieved the necessary quota for a mandate with the first preference votes alone. Overall, the PL had three seats (four following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty) and the PN two seats.

Elected MPs

	candidate	Political party	European party	1 round	29th round
	Simon Busuttil	PN	EPP	68,782	41,362
	David Casa	PN	EPP	6,539	41,362
	Louis Grech	PL	SPE	27,753	40,529
	Edward Scicluna	PL	SPE	24,574	39,250
	John Attard-Montalto	PL	SPE	12,880	30,129

Next best result (successor after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty )

Joseph Cuschieri

PL

SPE

19,672

29,375

See also

• List of Maltese Members of the European Parliament (2009-2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maltese Department of Information, June 6, 2009: European Parliament Elections 2009 - Votes Cast
2. ↑ Times of Malta, June 8, 2009: Official: PL victory at 55% - Full first count list, two MEPs set to lose seat .
3. ^ Maltese Department of Information: European Parliament elections