2026 Maltese general election

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General elections were held in Malta on 30 May 2026, with 356,832 registered voters entitled to vote to elect all members of the House of Representatives. The ruling Labour Party led by Robert Abela won the election, securing 36 seats with 52% of the first preference vote. The party became the first to win four consecutive elections, in spite of its vote share declining by three percentage points from the 2022 election. The Nationalist Party, led by Alex Borg, won 29 seats with 45% of the vote, narrowing the gap between the two parties from 39,474 votes in the 2022 election to 21,721. The Nationalist Party received 2 additional seats through the Proportionality Corrective Mechanism, for a total of 31 seats. Both parties received 6 additional seats each through the Gender Corrective Mechanism, resulting in a Labour Party total of 42 seats, and a Nationalist Party total of 37 seats.

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