General election in Malta 2013

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(in %)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.83

43.3

1.80

0.07

PL

PN

AD

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2008

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

+6.04

-6.04

+0.49

-0.49

PL

PN

AD

Otherwise.

  

A total of 69 seats

• PL : 39
• PN : 30

On Saturday, March 9, 2013, the election for the House of Representatives , the parliament of the Republic of Malta , took place . The Partit Laburista (PL, Labor Party) won the majority of the seats, defeating the Partit Nazzjonalista (PN, Nationalist Party), which had held government responsibility since 1987, with a brief break of less than two years between 1996 and 1998.

background

On December 10, 2012, the government of Lawrence Gonzi was defeated in the vote on the 2013 financial calculation plan , when MP Franco Debono voted in protest against the government's budget proposal to protest against the reform of the transport system and the contract to manage a German operator of national bus transport. In view of the cancellation of the offer, Gonzi announced that the House of Representatives would be dissolved on January 7th and a parliamentary election on March 9th would be called.

Electoral system

The voting system, as in previous elections, was proportional representation through a modified single transferable vote with five MPs to be returned from each of the thirteen districts for a total of 65 constituency seats, with a variable number of large seats added to ensure that reflect the overall votes of the first preference in the composition of the House of Representatives. There have also been some minor changes to the constituency boundaries from the previous general election and improved options for hospital patients.

Parties

The two leading political parties contesting the election were incumbent Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi’s Nationalist Party and Joseph Muscat’s Labor Party , for whom this was the party's first general election. The third party was the Democratic Alternative, a Green party that tried to elect its first MP. A small number of independent candidates also ran for election. National Action, which ran in the 2008 and 2009 general election, ceased its activities in 2010 and does not contest this election.

Result

After the preliminary result, in which Labor won 39-26 seats for the nationalists, Labor Party leader Joseph Muscat said in Naxxar: “I did not expect such a landslide victory for Labor. We all have to stay calm, tomorrow is a new day. ”The nationalist party leader Lawrence Gonzi admitted the election with the words:“ The nationalist party must initiate a reform process while remaining rooted in its values ​​”. This marked the first time the Labor Party won a majority in government since Malta's accession to the European Union and was the first Labor government since the new millennium (as the previous one should have ended in 2001 but had to end early in 1998 ). In addition, the Labor Party won an absolute majority of the votes in 23 of the 35 localities, increasing its overall share of the vote by 2.2% compared to the last election. The Nationalist Party then received four large seats, giving it a total of 30 seats to adjust its share of the first preference vote.

For the individual MEPs see: List of MEPs from Malta (12th legislative term) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Election 2013. Electoral Comission Malta, September 3, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2018 .