Next Maltese general election
General elections are scheduled to be held in Malta by 2022, when the parliament elected in 2017 reaches the end of its five year term. However, the elections may be held sooner if a government loses a motion of no confidence or chooses to call a snap election.
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Electoral system
Members of Parliament are elected from 13 five-seat constituencies by single transferable vote. Candidates who pass the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota in the first round are elected and any surplus votes transferred to the remaining candidates, who will be elected if this enables them to pass the quotient. The lowest ranked candidates are then eliminated one-by-one with their preferences transferred to other candidates, who are elected as they pass the quotient, until all five seats are filled.[1]
If a party wins a majority of first preference votes but fails to achieve a parliamentary majority, they are awarded seats to ensure a one-seat majority, if they are one of only two parties to obtain seats.[1]
Opinion polls
Expressing a preference
The values in the table below are derived by removing non-party responses (i.e. non-voters, "don't know", and "no reply"); as the margin is also recalculated, there may be slight differences in exact lead margins due to rounding.
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
PL | PN | PD | AD | MPM | Others | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sagalytics | 16–20 Sep 2019 | 660 | 58.1 | 39.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.0 |
| MaltaToday | 6–14 Dec 2018 | 597 | 61.2 | 36.8 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.5 |
| MaltaToday | 5–8 Nov 2018 | 597 | 68.8 | 29.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.7 |
| MaltaToday | 1–6 Oct 2018 | 601 | 60.3 | 36.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.5 |
| MaltaToday | 27–30 Aug 2018 | 605 | 64.5 | 33.5 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.9 |
| MaltaToday | 27 Jul–2 Aug 2018 | 14 | 65.4 | 34.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31.4 |
| Esprimi | 26–27 Jul 2018 | 1,100 | 65.4 | 23.1 | – | 3.5 | – | 8.0 | 42.4 |
| Sagalytics | Jun 2018 | ? | 58.5 | 40.7 | – | – | – | 0.8 | 17.8 |
| MaltaToday | 28–31 May 2018 | 552 | 63.0 | 35.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27.4 |
| MaltaToday | 23–27 Apr 2018 | 553 | 58.0 | 40.7 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 17.4 |
| MaltaToday | 26 Feb–1 Mar 2018 | 501 | 63.3 | 33.0 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30.2 |
| Sagalytics | 12–20 Feb 2018 | 600 | 60.5 | 37.5 | – | – | – | 1.9 | 23.0 |
| MaltaToday | 23–29 Jan 2018 | 501 | 58.3 | 40.1 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18.2 |
| MaltaToday | 13–16 Nov 2017 | 497 | 67.1 | 27.9 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.2 |
| Sagalytics | 27 Oct–2 Nov 2017 | 530 | 66.8 | 29.0 | – | – | – | 4.2 | 37.8 |
| MaltaToday | 2–5 Oct 2017 | 506 | 67.5 | 31.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 35.6 |
| 2017 general election | 3 Jun 2017 | – | 55.0 | 43.7 (FN) | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 11.4 | |
Complete data
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
PL | PN | PD | AD | MPM | Others | Lead | Not voting |
Don't know |
No reply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MaltaToday | 6–14 Dec 2018 | 597 | 48.3 | 29.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19.3 | 12.5 | 7.1 | – |
| MaltaToday | 5–8 Nov 2018 | 597 | 47.7 | 20.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27.5 | 13.8 | 16.0 | – |
| MaltaToday | 1–6 Oct 2018 | 601 | 47.3 | 28.9 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18.4 | 17.6 | 4.0 | – |
| MaltaToday | 27–30 Aug 2018 | 605 | 47.7 | 24.8 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22.9 | 16.3 | 9.7 | – |
| MaltaToday | 27 Jul–2 Aug 2018 | 597 | 52.0 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 10.6 | 9.7 | – |
| Esprimi | 26–27 Jul 2018 | 1,100 | 46.8 | 16.5 | – | 2.5 | – | 5.7 | 30.3 | 16.3 | 12.1 | 0.0 |
| Sagalytics | Jun 2018 | ? | 58.5 | 40.7 | – | – | – | 0.8 | 17.8 | – | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 28–31 May 2018 | 552 | 48.8 | 27.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.2 | 12.0 | 10.7 | – |
| MaltaToday | 23–27 Apr 2018 | 553 | 45.8 | 32.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 13.7 | 10.4 | 10.8 | – |
| MaltaToday | 26 Feb–1 Mar 2018 | 501 | 49.6 | 25.9 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.7 | 11.1 | 10.6 | – |
| Sagalytics | 12–20 Feb 2018 | 600 | 46.6 | 28.9 | – | – | – | 1.5 | 17.7 | 6.5 | 4.2 | 12.3 |
| MaltaToday | 23–29 Jan 2018 | 501 | 42.0 | 28.9 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.1 | 10.3 | 17.4 | 0.2 |
| MaltaToday | 13–16 Nov 2017 | 497 | 49.8 | 20.7 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29.1 | 15.7 | 6.5 | 3.6 |
| Sagalytics | 27 Oct–2 Nov 2017 | 530 | 51.4 | 22.3 | – | – | – | 3.2 | 29.1 | 14.0 | 9.1 | |
| MaltaToday | 2–5 Oct 2017 | 506 | 46.4 | 21.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24.5 | 16.7 | 12.9 | 1.7 |
| 2017 general election | 3 Jun 2017 | – | 50.0 | 39.7 (FN) | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 10.3 | 7.9 | – | – | |
Preferred Prime Minister
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size |
Muscat PL |
Delia PN |
Neither / None | Don't know | No reply | Other |
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| MaltaToday | 9–15 May 2019 | 849 | 50.6 | 22.8 | 23.2 | 3.4 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 25 Apr–3 May 2019 | 602 | 51.7 | 21.2 | 22.7 | 4.3 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 28 Mar–4 Apr 2019 | 597 | 49.6 | 21.5 | 23.9 | 5.0 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 22–27 Feb 2019 | 598 | 54.8 | 15.9 | 24.6 | 4.7 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 21–28 Jan 2019 | 597 | 54.8 | 20.4 | 20.0 | 4.9 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 6–14 Dec 2018 | 597 | 51.2 | 24.7 | 21.2 | 2.8 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 5–8 Nov 2018 | 597 | 54.5 | 17.8 | 23.1 | 4.6 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 1–6 Oct 2018 | 601 | 52.9 | 19.8 | 24.3 | 3.1 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 27–30 Aug 2018 | 605 | 53.5 | 17.9 | 1.6 | 27.1 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 27 Jul–2 Aug 2018 | 597 | 53.9 | 14.8 | 10.8 | 20.5 | – | – |
| Sagalytics | Jun 2018 | ? | 62.8 | 36.6 | – | – | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 28–31 May 2018 | 552 | 52.6 | 23.5 | 20.7 | 3.2 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 23–27 Apr 2018 | 553 | 48.6 | 27.2 | 18.8 | 5.4 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 26 Feb–1 Mar 2018 | 501 | 58.2 | 20.2 | 22.1 | 5.1 | – | – |
| Sagalytics | 12–20 Feb 2018 | 600 | 47.5 | 22.6 | 0.6 | 11.9 | 16.2 | 1.1 |
| MaltaToday | 23–29 Jan 2018 | 501 | 41.0 | 15.4 | 15.2 | 28.3 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 6–14 Dec 2017 | 488 | 50.4 | 7.2 | 24.2 | 18.3 | – | – |
| MaltaToday | 13–16 Nov 2017 | 497 | 53.7 | 15.2 | 3.1 | 27.5 | 0.5 | – |
| MaltaToday | 2–5 Oct 2017 | 506 | 50.9 | 22.1 | 16.6 | 10.0 | 0.5 | – |