Election Name: | 2009 European Parliament election in Malta |
Country: | Malta |
Type: | parliamentary |
Previous Election: | 2004 European Parliament election in Malta |
Previous Year: | 2004 |
Next Election: | 2014 European Parliament election in Malta |
Next Year: | 2014 |
Seats For Election: | 5 seats to the European Parliament |
Election Date: | 6 June 2009 |
An election of the delegation from Malta to the European Parliament was held on 6 June 2009, on the same day as the 2009 Maltese local council elections.
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] Simon Busuttil MEP was the only candidate to be elected on the first count with 68,782 (27.72%) single votes.[1] [3]
+Elected MEPs (5) | |||||||
Candidate | Party | EU Party | 1st count | 29th count | |||
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width=5px style="background-color: " | Simon Busuttil | 68,782 | 41,362 < | -- to keep consistent sorting while reflecting election at an earlier count --> | |||
David Casa | 6,539 | 41,362 | |||||
Louis Grech | 27,753 | 40,529 | |||||
Edward Scicluna | 24,574 | 39,250 | |||||
John Attard Montalto | 12,880 | 30,129 | |||||
+Next in line for Treaty of Lisbon additional seat (1) | ||||||
width=5px style="background-color: " | Joseph Cuschieri | 19,672 | 29,375 | |||