General election in Malta 2017

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A total of 67 seats
  • PL : 37
  • PN : 30

On June 3, 2017, the election for the House of Representatives , the parliament of the Republic of Malta, took place . It was brought forward by about nine months after Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's government and family came under suspicion of corruption. The ruling Parti Laburista clearly won the election.

Starting position

The 2013 election was clearly won by the Partit Laburista (PL, Labor Party) under Joseph Muscat with 54.8%. Muscat became Prime Minister and replaced Lawrence Gonzi from the Partit Nazzjonalista (PN, Nationalist Party). The PL had 39 mandates, the PN 30.

Due to errors in the count, the Constitutional Court later awarded the PN two additional mandates. PN MP Giovanna Debono left the party in May 2015 and remained in Parliament as an independent MP. In 2016, parliamentarian Marlene Farrugia left the PL and founded the Partit Demokratiku (PD, Democratic Party).

From the so-called Panama Papers it became known as early as 2016 that several ministers and Muscat's wife had opened offshore accounts after Muscat's 2013 election victory. Muscat denied his wife owned an offshore company before the election. On October 16, 2017, the blogger, who had made this known beyond the borders of Malta, was killed by a car bomb .

Electoral system

The Maltese electoral system is based on the system of transferable individual voting (STV) . There are 13 constituencies, each with five seats. However, if the distribution of seats in parliament does not correspond to a proportional distribution of seats according to the result of the first preferences, the underrepresented party will be allocated as many additional seats until the ratio is reached.

Parties

There is a classic two-party system in Malta. Two parties are traditionally represented in the House of Representatives: the social democratic Partit Laburista (PL) and the conservative Christian Democratic Partit Nazzjonalista (PN). 119 candidates ran for the PL, 20 of them women. The PN entered with 174 candidates, 43 of them women.

The green party Alternattiva Demokratika (AD, Alternative Democrats) has always been the third-strongest party in parliamentary elections since it was founded in 1989, but has never won a seat. She ran with 19 candidates, two of them women. The Partit Demokratiku of the ex-PL MP Farrugia entered the PN list. In addition, the right-wing nationalist Moviment Patrijotti Maltin (MPM, Patriotic Movement of Malta) with 22 candidates (including six women), the Christian conservative Alleanza Bidla (AB, Alliance of Change) with eight candidates (including two women) and four independent candidates (all men).

Survey

Polls since the early election was announced
date source PL PN AD Other
05/28/2017 MaltaToday 52.2 46.9 0.9 0.0
05/21/2017 MaltaToday 51.9 47.3 0.8 0.0
05/21/2017 Malta Independent 50.4 44.2 1.8 0.4
05/14/2017 MaltaToday 52.0 47.0 0.6 0.4
05/14/2017 Malta Independent 52.9 43.9 2.4 0.5
05/12/2017 Xarabank 50.6 48.0 1.4 0.0
07/05/2017 MaltaToday 51.9 47.5 0.4 0.2
07/05/2017 Malta Independent 53.1 46.0 0.6 0.4
Election 2013 54.8 43.3 1.8 0.3
Older polls
date source PL PN AD PD Other
04/30/2017 MaltaToday 51.0 46.0 1.1 1.1 0.7
March 16, 2017 MaltaToday 51.0 45.1 1.6 1.2 1.2
11/13/2016 MaltaToday 49.2 43.9 3.2 2.0 1.5
09/10/2016 MaltaToday 48.7 44.5 3.3 2.3 1.2
05/27/2016 MaltaToday 47.7 46.0 3.4 2.3 0.6
04/24/2016 Malta Independent 47.0 42.2 4.0 6.0 1.0
03/10/2016 MaltaToday 49.7 48.4 1.9 - 0.0
01/17/2016 MaltaToday 51.4 47.0 1.5 - 0.0
04/10/2015 MaltaToday 51.9 45.3 2.7 - 0.1
06/01/2015 MaltaToday 52.6 44.0 2.9 - 0.5
03/15/2015 MaltaToday 54.7 41.9 3.4 - 0.0
01/10/2015 MaltaToday 56.1 40.5 3.1 - 0.4
08/28/2014 Malta surveys 46.9 47.2 4.8 - 1.1
07/27/2014 Malta surveys 48.0 46.8 4.3 - 0.9
06/29/2014 Malta surveys 47.1 47.1 4.9 - 0.9
05/31/2014 Malta surveys 46.9 47.2 5.0 - 0.9
04/30/2014 Malta surveys 47.9 46.9 4.2 - 1.0
03/31/2014 Malta surveys 45.8 49.8 3.4 - 1.0
02/28/2014 Malta surveys 46.1 49.0 3.8 - 1.1
31/01/2014 Malta surveys 47.1 48.4 3.6 - 0.9
December 31, 2013 Malta surveys 47.0 49.0 3.0 - 1.0
11/30/2013 Malta surveys 47.9 48.0 3.2 - 0.9
10/30/2013 Malta surveys 47.4 47.9 3.1 - 1.6
09/30/2013 Malta surveys 49.4 44.3 5.1 - 1.3
08/31/2013 Malta surveys 50.0 46.0 3.0 - 1.0
07/31/2013 Malta surveys 50.0 47.0 3.0 - 0.0
06/29/2013 Malta surveys 50.0 47.0 2.0 - 1.0
05/31/2013 Malta surveys 51.0 47.0 2.0 - 0.0
04/30/2013 Malta surveys 52.0 46.0 2.0 - 0.0

Results

The Partit Laburista was able to repeat its election victory of 2013 in height. It gained around 3,000 additional votes and increased its share of the vote from 54.8 to 55.0 percent. The Partit Nazzjonalista also gained in votes as well as in percentage, while the Alternattiva Demokratika lost more than half of its 2013 voters. The turnout decreased slightly, but since more people were eligible to vote, the number of valid votes increased.

Election result 2017
Political party Voices a Percent of valid votes Percent of eligible voters Seats b
Partit Laburista 170,976 55.0 50.0 37
Partit Nazzjonalista 135,696 43.7 39.7 30 b
Alternattiva Demokratika 2,564 0.8 0.8 0
Moviment Patrijotti Maltin 1,117 0.4 0.3 0
Alleanza Bidla 221 0.1 0.1 0
Independent candidates 91 0.0 0.0 0
valid votes 310,665 100.0 90.9
invalid votes 4.031 1.2
votes cast 314,696 92.1
Eligible voters 341,856 100.0
a Votes that were given as first preference for candidates from the respective party.
b Including two compensation seats to align the distribution of seats with the nationwide vote result.

After the election

Shortly after the count began, around noon on June 4th, PN chairman Simon Busuttil announced on Twitter that he had called Joseph Muscat and admitted his defeat. On June 5th, Muscat was sworn in for his second term. On the same day, the entire PN party executive announced its resignation. Busuttil announced that he would remain in office until a successor was elected. The members of the new government were inducted into office on June 9, 2017.

For the individual MEPs see: List of MEPs from Malta (13th legislative term) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General Election 2017. Electoral Comission Malta, June 5, 2017, accessed on June 5, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ New elections in Malta at the beginning of June. In: stol.it. May 1, 2017, archived from the original on May 1, 2017 ; Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Panama Papers ensure new elections in Malta. In: dw.com. May 1, 2015, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ Miriam Dalli, Paul Cocks: PN gets two additional seats in parliament • Muscat: 'Labor will respect decision'. In: maltatoday.com.mt. May 26, 2016, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  5. ^ Martin Scicluna: The Marlene effect. In: timesofmalta.com. November 16, 2016, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Oliver Meiler: From Iceland to Malta: The Panama quake. In: panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ spiegel.de: blogger killed by car bomb
  8. ^ Constitution of Malta. (pdf) §52. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ivan Camilleri: PD candidates to contest on PN List. In: timesofmalta.com. April 28, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  10. ^ Kurt Sansone: Expect a long ballot sheet next general election. In: timesofmalta.com. December 18, 2016, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ PN set to get two more seats to represent proportionality. The Malta Independent (online), June 6, 2017, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Simon Busuttil: Tweet from Simon Busuttil. Twitter, June 4, 2017, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  13. ^ Matthew Agius: Joseph Muscat sworn in as Prime Minister as crowds cheer him across Valletta. Malta Today, June 5, 2017, accessed June 5, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Simon Busuttil steps down as PN leader after crushing defeat. Times of Malta, June 5, 2017, accessed the following day. (English)
  15. ^ Watch: Ministers, parliamentary secretaries take oath of office. Times of Malta, June 9, 2017, accessed June 13, 2017. (English)
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