European Parliament election, 2009 (Malta)

The European Elections in Malta 2009 was held together with the Maltese local elections on June 6, 2009. It was conducted as part of the EU-wide European elections held in 2009, with 5 of the 736 seats were awarded in the European Parliament in Malta. With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty in December 2011 drew another Maltese MEP after in Parliament.

The choice was made after the preferential voting system, in which, although the parties present lists of candidates, but ultimately give the voters cast their votes for certain candidates, where they may each have a first and indicate a second preference. Quite Malta was given as a single constituency.

Besides the two major parties, the Social Democratic Partit Laburista ( PL) and the conservative Partit Nazzjonalista (PN), which had been previously represented by three or two seats in the European Parliament, were also numerous other parties, but their lists, only one to three candidates included. These were the green Alternattiva Demokratika (AD ), which had surprisingly well in the 2004 European elections, at 9.3 %, but won no seat, and the National Alliance liberalization, the Alpha Partit Demokratiku liberalization, the right-wing conservative Azzjoni Nazzjonali, the extreme right-wing empire Europe (IE), the KUL Ewropa, the Eurosceptic Libertas Malta and the Partit tal- Ajkla. Overall, there were 34 candidates.

The turnout was 78.8 %, the highest turnout in the 2009 European election except in Belgium and Luxembourg ( but where there was elective ). Election winner was the PL with around 54.8 % of the votes Erstpräferenzstimmen, the PN came to 40.5 %. All other parties performed much worse: the AD came to 2.4%, IE to 1.4%. Conservative MP Simon Busuttil was about the only candidate who has already achieved alone the necessary quota for a mandate with the Erstpräferenzstimmen. Overall, the PL reached three (after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty four), the PN two seats.