REPUBLIC OF MALTA
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION OF 8 March 2008
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Election to Il-Kamra tad-Deputati (Chamber of Deputies) 
Source: Times of Malta website

Parties
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* MLP - Partit Laburista (Malta Labour Party)
* PN - Partit Nazzjonalista (Nationalist Party)


NATIONAL SUMMARY OF VOTES AND SEATS
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Comparisons are with the elections of 2003.
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Registered voters:         294,106
Votes cast:                285,122  96.0%
Invalid votes:               2,936  01.0%
Valid votes:               282,186  99.0%
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Party                      Votes    %     Change   Seats
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Partit Laburista           141,888  48.8  +01.8    34      34
Partit Nazzjonalista       143,468  49.3  -02.5    31  +4  35
Others                       5,443  01.9            -
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Total                      290,799                 65      69
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Labor won the election in terms of seats gained, because the 
preferences of eliminated minor parties favoured Labor. But 
because the Maltese constitution stipulates that the party 
gaining a plurality of votes must win a majority of seats, four 
extra seats were allocated to the Nationalists to give them an 
artificial majority.