Malta (European Parliament constituency)

Malta European Parliament constituency
Location amongst the 2007 constituencies
Created	2004
MEP(s)	5 (2004)
Member State	Malta
Source(s)	[1][2]

In European elections, Malta is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by five MEPs. It covers the member state of Malta. The electoral system used is Single Transferable Vote.

Current MEPs

Further information: MEPs for Malta 2009–2014

The turnout was 78.81%.^[1] The Partit Laburista garnered 54.77% of first-count votes and the Partit Nazzjonalista garnered 40.49%; 2.31% of votes cast were invalid.^[2] Dr Simon Busuttil MEP was the only candidate to be elected on the first count with 68,782 (27.72%) single votes.^[3][4]

Elected MEPs (5)

	Candidate	Party	EU Party	1st count	29th count
	Busuttil Simon Busuttil	PN	EPP	68,782	41,363 41,362
	Casa David Casa	PN	EPP	6,539	41,362
	Grech Louis Grech	PL	PES	27,753	40,529
	Scicluna Edward Scicluna	PL	PES	24,574	39,250
	Attard John Attard Montalto	PL	PES	12,880	30,129

Next in line for Treaty of Lisbon additional seat (1)

Cuschieri Joseph Cuschieri

PL

PES

19,672

29,375

2004-2009

Further information: MEPs for Malta 2004-2009

As of October 2007

Name	National Party	EP group
John Attard-Montalto	Partit Laburista	PES
Simon Busuttil	Partit Nazzjonalista	EPP–ED
David Casa	Partit Nazzjonalista	EPP–ED
Louis Grech	Partit Laburista	PES
Glenn Bedingfield*	Partit Laburista	PES

* Replaced Joseph Muscat as the latter was elected as leader of the Malta Labour Party

2004

Further information: European Parliament election, 2004 (Malta)

The 2004 European election was the sixth election to the European Parliament. However, as Malta had only joined the European Union earlier that month, it was the first European election held in that state. The election took place on June 13.

Party		Abbr.	EP Group	Candidates	Votes	%	Seats
	Partit Laburista	MLP	PES	8	118,983	48.4	3
	Partit Nazzjonalista	PN	EPP-ED	8	97,688	39.8	2
	Other parties and candidates			11	29,051	11.8	0
Total					245,722	100	5
Registered voters: 304,283
Votes cast					250,691	82.4
Invalid votes					5,239	2.1
Valid votes					245,722	97.9
Source: maltadata.com

References

1. ^ http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/press_releases/2009/06/pr1012.asp
2. ^ http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090608/local/provisional-first-count-results
3. ^ http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/elections/2009/EU_Parlelections/eu_parl1.asp
4. ^ http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090608/local/simon

External links

• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)
• List of MEPs europarl.europa.eu