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13 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 31 MARCH 2019 NEWS Step 1 The sixth female candidates left hanging at last count in every district would be declared elected by the Electoral Commission. The 2017 election outcome would have delivered two MPs in this way, one each for the PL and the PN. This leaves another five extra seats on either side to be filled. District 1 Paula Mifsud Bonnici (PN) was left hanging with 2,749 votes. District 12 Deborah Schembri (PL) was left hanging with 3,417 votes. Step 2 Casual election with votes of unelected hanging male candidates in every district. The 2017 election would have delivered another six women MPs in this way – four for the PN and two for the PL. District 2 Josie Muscat (PN) was left hanging with 2,493 votes. PN candidates Mary Bezzina and Doris Borg would be able to contest the casual election. District 3 Stephen Spiteri (PN) was left hanging with 2,684 votes. Spiteri was elected to parliament from another district but left hanging in the third. PN candidates Amanda Abela, Mary Bezzi- na, Janice Chetcuti and Catherine Farrugia would be able to contest the casual election. Farrugia was a PD candidate on the PN list. District 7 Antoine Borg (PN) was left hanging with 3,256 votes. PN candidates Monique Agius and Dounia Borg would be able to contest the casual election. Agius was a PD candidate on the PN list. District 9 Edward Zammit Lewis (PL) was left hanging with 2,954 votes. Zammit Lewis was also left hanging on the eighth district but was subse- quently elected in a casual election. PL can- didate Nikita Zammit Alamango is the only Labour female candidate on the district and she would be definitely elected. District 10 George Pullicino (PN) was left hanging with 2,622 votes. PN candidates Graziella Attard Previ, Roselyn Borg Knight, Anne Marie Mus- cat Fenech Adami and the late Evelyn Vella Brincat would be able to contest the casual election. District 11 Chris Cardona (PL) was left hanging with 3,246 votes. PL candidates Rachel Tua and Fleur Vella would be able to contest the casual election. Deborah Schembri would have been elected in Step 1. Step 3 Casual elections are held with the votes of MPs who made it to Parliament through a casual election in the normal process. Casual elections take place only where there are unelected female candidates from the same political party in the respective district. After steps 1 and 2, the PN only needs one more seat to reach its six female MPs elected through the gender correction mechanism. The PL needs three more seats. Step 3 will deliver two PL female MPs, leaving the party one short. However, the PN would have four potential candidates for just one seat. At the end of the respective casual elections, the PN candidates are placed in rank order and the top of the list is elected MP. District 4 Etienne Grech (PL) was elected with 2,020 votes in a casual election after Chris Fearne gave up his seat. The only PL woman candi- date in the running would be Rita Sammut. District 5 Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi (PL) was elected with 2,102 votes in a casual election after Jo- seph Muscat gave up his seat. The only PL woman candidate in the running would be Rita Sammut. District 7 Godfrey Farrugia (PN-PD) was elected with 1,975 votes in a casual election after Beppe Fenech Adami gave up his seat. PN candi- dates Monique Agius and Dounia Borg would be able to contest. District 8 Edward Zammit Lewis (PL) was elected with 2,477 votes in a casual election after Edward Scicluna gave up his seat. The only PL candi- date in the running would be Rachel Tua un- less she would get elected in Step 2. District 10 Karol Aquilina (PN) was elected with 2,014 votes in a casual election after Robert Arrigo gave up his seat. PN candidates Graziella At- tard Previ, Roselyn Borg Knight, Anne Marie Muscat Fenech Adami and the late Evelyn Vella Brincat would be able to contest. District 11 Ivan Bartolo (PN) and Maria Deguara (PN) were elected in casual elections with 2,317 and 2,302 votes respectively after Simon Bu- suttil and David Agius gave up their seats. PN candidates Simone Aquilina, Shirley Cauchi, Graziella Galea and Connie Scerri would be able to contest. District 12 Clayton Bartolo (PL) was elected with 3,629 votes in a casual election after Evarist Bartolo gave up his seat. The only remaining PL fe- male candidate able to contest would be Fleur Vella, who would definitely make it to parlia- ment. District 13 David Stellini (PN) was elected with 4,003 votes in a casual election after Marthese Por- telli gave up her seat. PN candidate Maria Portelli would be the only one to contest this casual election. Step 4 Co-option of women candidates by Parliament to reflect the number of missing seats for each party. In this case, Parliament would have to co-opt one PL female MP to reach the six-seat limit. No co-options would be necessary for the PN. 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Given the gender imbalance, 12 extra seats would be added to parliament - six each for the two parties. The PD is not considered a third party for electoral purposes because its candidates contested on the PN list. MORE ON QUOTAS EDITORIAL Welcome proposals 18 Michael Falzon Quotas by any other name 22 Raphael Vassallo How did we go from 'gender balance'... to this? 24-25