2024 European Parliament election in Malta

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2024 European Parliament election in Malta
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All 6 Maltese seats in the European Parliament
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Robert Abela 2022.jpg Bernard Grech in 2022.jpg
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Leader Robert Abela Bernard Grech Norman Lowell
Party Labour Nationalist Imperium Europa
Alliance S&D EPP -
Last election4 seats; 54.29%2 seats; 37.24%0 seats; 3.17%
Seats before
4 / 6
2 / 6
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
 
ADPD
ABBA
Volt
Leader Sandra Gauci Ivan Grech Mintoff Arnas Lasys
Alexia DeBono
Party AD+PD ABBA Volt
Alliance Greens/EFA ECR Volt
Last election0 seats; 2.75% [lower-alpha 1] 0 seats; 0.46% [lower-alpha 2] New

The 2024 European Parliament election will be held in Malta on 8 June 2024 in tandem with local elections. [1] It will be the fifth election to the European Parliament. Malta will elect 6 of the 720 Members of the European Parliament. [2] EU citizens aged 16 and over are entitled to vote, provided they have registered to do so. [1] Six different political parties have announced their participation, only 2 of these won seats in the last election these being the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, with 4 and 2 seats respectively. [3]

Contents

Standing of Maltese seats in the EU Parliament

PartyEuropean PartyOutgoing delegation
Seats Group
Labour Party Incumbent MEPs: PES 4 S&D
Alfred Sant
Josianne Cutajar
Alex Agius Saliba
Cyrus Engerer
Logo of the Nationalist Party (Malta).svg Nationalist Party Incumbent MEPs: EPP 2 EPP
Roberta Metsola
David Casa

MEPs not standing for re-election

MEPParty
Alfred Sant [4] Labour

Participating parties/candidates

The below parties and/or independent candidates have declared their participation in the upcoming European Parliament elections in order of candidate quantity as of 14 April 2024: [5]

PartyEuropean PartyQuantityNames
Labour Party PES 9
Logo of the Nationalist Party (Malta).svg Nationalist Party EPP 8 [6]
AD+PD logo.svg AD+PD EGP 4 [7] [8]
  • Sandra Gauci
  • Mina Tolu
  • Ralph Cassar
  • Rachelle 'REA' Deguara
Insigne imperii Europaeae.svg Imperium Europa –2
ABBA [10] ECPM 2
  • Ivan Grech Mintoff
  • Tania Gauci Fiorini
Volt Malta logo.svg Volt Malta Volt 1 [11] [12]
  • Matthias Iannis Portelli
Independent candidates or
non-registered parties		Various or None

The People's Party of Malta 2022 statutes logo.svg People's Party has not yet put forward any candidates yet and may not participate in the election at this stage.

Campaign

Labour Party

Nationalist Party

AD+PD

Imperium Europa

ABBA

ABBA started its campaign with two events organised in conjunction with the European Christian Political Movement party on 6 April 2024 in a Qawra hotel on 'Reclaiming the power for the member states'. Two pairs of individual speakers addressed the two consecutive events which revolved around 'Sovereignty and Healthcare' and 'Education and Foreign Policy'. Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș and party leader Ivan Grech Mintoff addressed the first meeting, with Valeriu Ghilețchi and lawyer and broadcaster Emmanuel 'Emmy' Bezzina addressed the second meeting. [19]

Volt Malta

Volt's campaign began with the adoption of their joint European election programme November 2023 in Paris, which the party shares with all other parties from Volt Europa. [20] On 1 February 2024, Volt announced its Vice President Matthias Iannis Portelli as its first candidate for the European elections. [21]

Independents

Electoral system

MEPs are elected from a nationwide six-seat constituency by single transferable vote. [22] Candidates who pass the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota in the first round are elected, and any surplus votes transferred to the remaining candidates, who will be elected if this enables them to pass the quota. [22] The lowest ranked candidates are then eliminated one-by-one with their preferences transferred to other candidates, who are elected as they pass the quotient, until all six seats are filled.

Opinion polling

It is not uncommon for smaller parties to be grouped together in polls, or totally excluded by Maltese media houses, who typically align with government or opposition. Where it comes to the third parties and independents, they have always outperformed opinion polling.

Dates ConductedPolling firmSample
size		 PL Logo of the Nationalist Party (Malta).svg Insigne imperii Europaeae.svg AD+PD logo.svg ABBA Volt Malta logo.svg IND/
Others		LeadNot
voting [lower-alpha 3] 		Don't
know/
Invalid [lower-alpha 3]
7 March - 21 March 2024 MaltaToday 65752.842.64.610.223.4–
27 Feb –12 Mar 2024 Esprimi/Times of Malta 60052.439.38.313.133
26 Jan –05 Feb 2024 MaltaToday 64747.941.011.16.937.5
26 Mar 2022 2022 Maltese general election –55.141.7n/a1.60.50.10.413.424.42.9
25 May 2019 2019 European Parliament election in Malta –54.337.93.172.7 [lower-alpha 1] 0.5 [lower-alpha 2] n/a1.216.427.32.6

Notes

  1. 1 2 Combined result of Democratic Alternative and Democratic Party vote shares before party merger
  2. 1 2 As Alliance for Change
  3. 1 2 Excluded from calculation for the party percentages.

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