In European elections

Elections in the European Union

Elections to the Parliament of the European Union take place every five years by universal adult suffrage. 736 MEPs are elected to the European Parliament which has been directly elected since 1979. No other body is directly elected although the Council of the European Union and European Council is...

, Malta is a constituency of the

European Parliament constituency

Members of the European Parliament are elected by the population of the member states of the European Union , divided into constituencies....

 European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

, currently represented by five MEPs. It covers the member state of Malta

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

. The electoral system used is Single Transferable Vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

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Current MEPs

The turnout was 78.81%. The Partit Laburista garnered 54.77% of first-count votes and the Partit Nazzjonalista garnered 40.49%; 2.31% of votes cast were invalid. Dr Simon Busuttil

Simon Busuttil

Simon Busuttil is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.He is also a substitute...

 MEP was the only candidate to be elected on the first count with 68,782 (27.72%) single votes.

Elected MEPs (5)

	Candidate	Party	EU Party European political party A European political party, formally a political party at European level, informally a Europarty, is a type of political party organization operating transnationally in Europe and in the institutions of the European Union. They are regulated and funded by the European Union and are usually made up...	1st count	29th count
	Busuttil Simon Busuttil Simon Busuttil Simon Busuttil is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.He is also a substitute...	PN	EPP	68,782	41,363 41,362
	Casa David Casa David Casa David Casa is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, which is part of the European People's Party....	PN	EPP	6,539	41,362
	Grech Louis Grech Louis Grech Louis Grech is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Malta Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets....	PL	PES Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...	27,753	40,529
	Scicluna Edward Scicluna Edward Scicluna Edward Scicluna is an economist and a Member of the European Parliament elected on behalf of the Maltese Labour Party and sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats....	PL	PES Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...	24,574	39,250
	Attard John Attard Montalto John Attard Montalto John Attard Montalto is a Maltese politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. He is a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists...	PL	PES Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...	12,880	30,129

Next in line for Treaty of Lisbon

Treaty of Lisbon

The Treaty of Lisbon of 1668 was a peace treaty between Portugal and Spain, concluded at Lisbon on 13 February 1668, through the mediation of England, in which Spain recognized the sovereignty of Portugal's new ruling dynasty, the House of Braganza....

 additional seat (1)

	Cuschieri Joseph Cuschieri Joseph Cuschieri Joseph Cuschieri is a Maltese politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. Previously he served in the House of Representatives of Malta from 1998 to 2008. He was born in a working class family and joined the Labour Party at a very early age.- Background :Cuschieri was...	PL	PES Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...	19,672	29,375

2004-2009

As of October 2007

Name	National Party	EP group
John Attard-Montalto	Partit Laburista Malta Labour Party The Labour Party is, along with the Nationalist Party, one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta. It is the party of opposition in the Maltese House of Representatives where it has thirty-four of the sixty-nine seats.- Party Structure :...	PES Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...
Simon Busuttil Simon Busuttil Simon Busuttil is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets.He is also a substitute...	Partit Nazzjonalista Nationalist Party (Malta) The Nationalist Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party. It was founded by Fortunato Mizzi in 1880 as the Anti-Reform Party, opposing taxation decreed by the British colonial authorities and measures to Anglicise the educational and the...	EPP–ED European People's Party–European Democrats The Group of the European People's Party , abbreviated to EPP Group, is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament...
David Casa David Casa David Casa is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Nationalist Party, which is part of the European People's Party....	Partit Nazzjonalista	EPP–ED
Louis Grech Louis Grech Louis Grech is a Maltese politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Malta Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets....	Partit Laburista	PES
Glenn Bedingfield Glenn Bedingfield Glenn Bedingfield is a Maltese journalist and formerly a Member of the European Parliament and General Secretary of the Forum Żgħażagħ Laburisti and member of the Party's National Executive.- Career :Bedingfield was one of the first journalists to join the newly set up Labour Party owned Super One... *	Partit Laburista	PES

* Replaced Joseph Muscat

Joseph Muscat

Joseph Muscat is a Maltese politician who has been leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives of Malta since 2008.- Education :...

 as the latter was elected as leader of the Malta Labour Party

Malta Labour Party

The Labour Party is, along with the Nationalist Party, one of two major contemporary political parties in Malta. It is the party of opposition in the Maltese House of Representatives where it has thirty-four of the sixty-nine seats.- Party Structure :...

2004

The 2004 European election

European Parliament election, 2004

Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...

 was the sixth election to the European Parliament. However, as Malta had only joined the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

earlier that month, it was the first European election held in that state. The election took place on June 13.

External links

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