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Malta 1955 general election

What was the result of the 1955 general election in Malta?

Labour Party won 23 of 40 seats with 56.7% of the vote. 81.2% 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 23 of 40 seats with 56.7% of the vote; 81.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.8 points on 1953.

  • Labour Party 23 +4 seats 56.7% +12.2 points
  • Nationalist Party 17 −1 seat 40.2% +2.1 points
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 0 0 seats 3.0% −1.3 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 1953 general election, party by party.

21 of 40 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 56.7%

    Share of the vote won by Labour Party

    Labour Party won 23 of 40 seats. A majority needs 21.

  2. +4 seats

    Seats gained by Labour Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 1953. Nationalist Party lost 1 seat.

  3. 81.2%

    Voter turnout

    Up 0.8 points on 1953.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party23+456.7+12.268,447
Nationalist Party17−140.2+2.148,514
Progressive Constitutionalist Party003.0−1.33,649

± is the change against the Malta 1953 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 68,447
  • Nationalist Party 48,514
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 3,649

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?

81.2% of the 149,380 registered voters cast a ballot (121,243 ballots), up 0.8 points on 1953. 120,655 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 Party56.7% of votes57.5% of seats
  • Nationalist Party40.2% of votes42.5% of seats
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party3.0% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.1 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 16.5 points of the vote.

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