14 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 3 APRIL 2022
NEWS
ELECTION 2022
JAMES DEBONO
LABOUR has lost votes in all
districts in 2022 except Gozo
and the sixth district which in-
cludes Qormi, Luqa and Siggie-
wi, while the PN has lost votes in
all districts.
In Gozo, the PN lost 781 votes
from 2017 while Labour gained
877 in the clearest indication of
a shift from the PN to the PL in
a district where the PN's share
of the vote has clamorously
dropped from 55% in 2008 to
44% now.
On the sixth district which
includes Qormi, Luqa and Sig-
giewi, Labour also gained 389
votes while the PN lost 487 in
another indication of a clear
shift from the PN to the PL. The
PN's losses in the district coin-
cided with the decision by for-
mer PN general-secretary and
district heavyweight Clyde Puli
not to contest this election. And
while Jerome Caruana Cilia has
emerged as an even stronger dis-
trict heavyweight, Labour has
further consolidated its majority
on this strategic district.
In a further indication of a shift
to Labour, the sixth and 13th
districts where the only two dis-
tricts which saw an increase in
the total number of votes casts,
compared to 2017, in an election
marked by mass abstention.
While Gozo saw votes cast
PN in free-fall, decline
across the board for
Labour except Gozo, Qormi
Labour suffered a sizeable drop in votes in its Cottonera stronghold as well as in the fourth district
stronghold but both parties suffered a drop in votes in PN heartland ninth and tenth districts
Changes in district votes for PN and PL in 2022 and 2017
