Maltese general election, 1981

Maltese general election, 1981

1976 ← 12 December , 1981 → 1987

All 65 seats of the Maltese House of Representatives   First party Second party   Leader Dom Mintoff Eddie Fenech Adami Party Labour Nationalist Last election 34 seats, 51.5% 31 seats, 48.5% Seats won 34 31 Seat change 0 0 Popular vote 109,990 114,113 Percentage 49.1% 50.9% Swing 2.4% 2.4%

Prime Minister before election Dom Mintoff Labour Elected Prime Minister Dom Mintoff Labour

Malta

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The 1981 general election was held to elect the House of Representatives of Malta. The election resulted in controversy because although the Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista) gained 51.8% of the votes, the voting system in use led to Malta Labour Party (Partit Laburista) winning the majority of seats and governing the Maltese islands with a disputed mandate, until the general election of 1987. This provoked a constitutional crisis, with the Nationalist Party boycotting parliament. As a result a compromise was reached whereby changes were made to the voting system to prevent a recurrence of the same problem.

The voting system

The 1981 election was held under the single transferable vote (PR-STV) system, with five-seat constituencies. PR-STV is designed to achieve proportional representation but, it does not produce perfect proportionality, especially if a small constituency size (district magnitude) is used or there are distortions caused by differential turn-out, gerrymandering or malapportionment. As a consequence, on rare occasions it is possible for a party to receive more than 50% of the vote in a parliamentary election but to fall short of a majority of seats.

Under the agreement reached following the 1981 election additional 'bonus' seats were introduced. Under the new system if a repeat of the 1981 scenario occurs then the party supported by an overall majority of voters will be awarded a number of additional seats from a party list, so that it secures a parliamentary majority.^[1]

Results

e • d Summary of the December 12, 1981 House of Representatives of Malta election results

Parties	Votes	%	Seats
Malta Labour Party (Partit Laburista)	109,990	49.1	34
Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista)	114,113	50.9	31
Total (turnout 94.1 %)	224,151	100.0	65
Source: [1].

References

1. ^ http://www.aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es/esy/esy_mt/

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