electionstracker

Malta 1971 general election

What was the result of the 1971 general election in Malta?

Labour Party won 28 of 55 seats with 50.8% of the vote. 92.9% 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 28 of 55 seats with 50.8% of the vote; 92.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.2 points on 1966.

  • Labour Party 28 +6 seats 50.8% +7.8 points
  • Nationalist Party 27 −1 seat 48.0% +0.2 points
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 0 0 seats 1.0% −0.4 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 1966 general election, party by party.

28 of 55 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 50.8%

    Share of the vote won by Labour Party

    Labour Party won 28 of 55 seats. A majority needs 28.

  2. +6 seats

    Seats gained by Labour Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 1966. Nationalist Party lost 1 seat.

  3. 92.9%

    Voter turnout

    Up 3.2 points on 1966.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Labour Party28+650.8+7.885,448
Nationalist Party27−148.0+0.280,753
Progressive Constitutionalist Party001.0−0.41,756

± is the change against the Malta 1966 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Labour Party 85,448
  • Nationalist Party 80,753
  • Progressive Constitutionalist Party 1,756

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?

92.9% of the 181,768 registered voters cast a ballot (168,913 ballots), up 3.2 points on 1966. 168,059 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 Party50.8% of votes50.9% of seats
  • Nationalist Party48.0% of votes49.1% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.0 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Labour Party led Nationalist Party by 2.8 points of the vote.

Time and source Data as of