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Malta 1953 general election

What was the result of the 1953 general election in Malta?

Labour Party won 19 of 40 seats with 44.5% of the vote. 80.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.

  • Malta
  • Held:
  • Final result
  • ParlGov, read 5 October 2026

Which party won the most seats?

Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 19 of 40 seats with 44.5% of the vote; 80.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 5.8 points on 1951.

  • Labour Party 19 +5 seats 44.5% +8.8 points
  • Nationalist Party 18 +3 seats 38.1% +2.7 points
  • Malta Workers Party 3 −4 seats 11.8% −7.0 points
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 0 4.3%
  • Constitutional Party 0 −4 seats 1.2% −7.0 points
  • Seats won
  • Change on the previous election at the right
  • Share of the vote
  • Share at the previous election
  • Change in points at the right

Changes are against the Malta 1951 general election, party by party.

21 of 40 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 44.5%

    Share of the vote won by Labour Party

    Labour Party won 19 of 40 seats. A majority needs 21.

  2. +5 seats

    Seats gained by Labour Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 1951. Constitutional Party lost 4 seats.

  3. 80.4%

    Voter turnout

    Up 5.8 points on 1951.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party19+544.5+8.852,771
Nationalist Party18+338.1+2.745,180
Malta Workers Party3−411.8−7.014,000
Progressive Constitutionalist Party04.35,117
Constitutional Party0−41.2−7.01,385

± is the change against the Malta 1951 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 52,771
  • Nationalist Party 45,180
  • Malta Workers Party 14,000
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 5,117
  • Constitutional Party 1,385

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 many people voted?

80.4% of the 148,478 registered voters cast a ballot (119,333 ballots), up 5.8 points on 1951. 118,453 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1947.

How do the votes compare with the seats?

  • Labour Party44.5% of votes47.5% of seats
  • Nationalist Party38.1% of votes45.0% of seats
  • Malta Workers Party11.8% of votes7.5% of seats
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 6.4 points of the vote.

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