The 2014 European Parliament election in Malta elected Malta's delegation to the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
from 2014 to 2019. This was the third such election held in Malta. The elections were held on Saturday, 24 May 2014.
The parties that contested the election were:
Labour Party,
Nationalist Party,
Democratic Alternative,
Imperium Europa,
Alleanza Bidla
The Alliance for Change (, AB) is a defunct Right-wing politics, right-wing Christian democracy, Christian-democratic List of political parties in Malta, political party in Malta. It is Euroscepticism, eurosceptic and has expressed Social conserva ...
,
Alleanza Liberali,
Partit Ta' L-Ajkla.
Candidates
Imperium Europa
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Arlette Baldacchino
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Antoine Galea
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Norman Lowell
Norman Lowell (born 29 July 1946) is a Maltese ultranationalist writer and head of Imperium Europa, a far-right political party. He is also a retired banker and artist.
Politics
Imperium Europa advocates Europe as a homeland for White people ...
Partit Laburista
The Labour Party ( mt, Partit Laburista, PL), formerly known as the Malta Labour Party ( mt, Partit tal-Ħaddiema, MLP), is one of the two major political parties in Malta, along with the Nationalist Party. It sits on the centre-left of the po ...
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Lino Bianco
Lino Bianco (born 31 December 1965) is a Maltese architect, academic and diplomat.
Biography
Bianco graduated in philosophy (under Peter Serracino Inglott) and in architecture (under Richard England) at the University of Malta. He furthere ...
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Clint Camilleri
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Peter Cordina
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Joseph Cuschieri
Joseph Cuschieri (born February 20, 1968) is a Maltese politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2011 - 2013. Previously he served in the House of Representatives of Malta from 1998 to 2008. In 1994 he was elected and ...
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Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli (born 19 May 1976) is a Maltese politician of the Labour Party and former journalist who has been serving as a member of the Parliament of Malta since 2020. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 un ...
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Mario Borg Farrugia
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Charlon Gouder
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Ivan Grixti
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Marlene Mizzi
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Alfred Sant
Alfred Sant, (born 28 February 1948 in tas-Sliema)
is a Maltese politician and a novelist. He led the Labour Party from 1992 to 2008 and served as Prime Minister of Malta between 1996 and 1998 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1992 to 1 ...
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Deborah Schembri
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Fleur-Anne Vella
Partit Ta' L-Ajkla
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Nazzareno Bonnici
Partit Nazzjonalista
The Nationalist Party ( mt, Partit Nazzjonalista, PN) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Malta, along with the Labour Party.
It is a Christian-democratic, and conservative political party, and it has been also described ...
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Raymond Bugeja
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David Casa
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Therese Comodini Cachia
Therese Comodini Cachia (born February 23, 1973) is a Maltese lawyer and politician and former member in the European Parliament.
Education
Comodini Cachia attended the University of Malta, where she earned two postgraduate degrees. She earned h ...
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Kevin Cutajar
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Helga Ellul
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Stefano Mallia
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Roberta Metsola
Roberta Metsola (; née Tedesco Triccas; born 18 January 1979) is a Maltese politician serving as President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Metsola was first elected to as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2013, and be ...
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Kevin Plumpton
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Jonathan Shaw Jonathan Shaw may refer to:
* Jonathan Shaw (British Army officer) (born 1957)
* Jonathan Shaw (cricketer) (born 1980), English cricketer
* Jonathan Shaw (photographer), British photographer and educator
* Jonathan Shaw (politician) (born 1966), Br ...
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Norman Vella
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Francis Zammit Dimech
Francis Zammit Dimech (born 23 October 1954) is a Maltese politician who served in domestic Maltese politics as a member of the House of Representatives of Malta between 1987 and 2017 and as a Member of the European Parliament from 2017 till 2019 ...
Alternattiva Demokratika
Democratic Alternative ( mt, Alternattiva Demokratika), sometimes referred to as AD – The Green Party, was a green political party in Malta. The party was initially founded by a coalition of former Labour Party members and environmental acti ...
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Carmel Cacopardo
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Arnold Cassola
Arnold Cassola is a Maltese and Italian independent politician, professor, author and editor of various books and academic papers. Cassola is a professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Malta. He has held elective office and pol ...
Alleanza Bidla
The Alliance for Change (, AB) is a defunct Right-wing politics, right-wing Christian democracy, Christian-democratic List of political parties in Malta, political party in Malta. It is Euroscepticism, eurosceptic and has expressed Social conserva ...
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Anthony Calleja
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Ivan Grech Mintoff
Alleanza Liberali
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Jean-Pierre Sammut
Results
The
Labour Party won the election with a little over 53% of the votes. The result was announced by the Maltese Prime Minister,
Joseph Muscat
Joseph Muscat (born 22 January 1974) is a Maltese politician who served as the prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020, and as the leader of the Labour Party from June 2008 to January 2020.
Muscat was re-elected as prime minister in the ...
.
The
Nationalist Party won 40%,
Democratic Alternative 2.9%,
Imperium Europa 2.8% and others 0.96%.
Despite receiving just 40% of the electors vote, the Nationalist Party won its third seat, previously held by the Labour Party. Therefore, the elected candidates are:
1.
Alfred Sant
Alfred Sant, (born 28 February 1948 in tas-Sliema)
is a Maltese politician and a novelist. He led the Labour Party from 1992 to 2008 and served as Prime Minister of Malta between 1996 and 1998 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1992 to 1 ...
(PL) (48739 votes)
2.
Roberta Metsola
Roberta Metsola (; née Tedesco Triccas; born 18 January 1979) is a Maltese politician serving as President of the European Parliament since January 2022.
Metsola was first elected to as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2013, and be ...
(PN) (38442 votes)
3.
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli (born 19 May 1976) is a Maltese politician of the Labour Party and former journalist who has been serving as a member of the Parliament of Malta since 2020. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2014 un ...
(PL) (37533 votes)
4.
David Casa (PN) (36371 votes)
5.
Marlene Mizzi (PL) (35630 votes)
6.
Therese Comodini Cachia
Therese Comodini Cachia (born February 23, 1973) is a Maltese lawyer and politician and former member in the European Parliament.
Education
Comodini Cachia attended the University of Malta, where she earned two postgraduate degrees. She earned h ...
(PN) (29580 votes).
See also
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2014 European Parliament election
The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014.
It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...
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European elections in Malta
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2009 European Parliament election in Malta
The 2009 European Parliament election in Malta was the election of the delegation from Malta to the European Parliament in 2009. The elections were held on 6 June on the same day as the 2009 Maltese local council elections.
Candidates Alter ...
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2004 European Parliament election in Malta
An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Malta constituency for the 2004–2009 term was held on 12 June 2004 as part of the wider 2004 European election. The election used Single Transferable Vote. The opposition Malta La ...
References
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...
European Parliament elections in Malta
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