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Following the elections changes were made to the voting system to prevent a recurrence of the same problem. Under the new system, if a repeat of the 1981 scenario occurred, the party supported by an overall majority of voters would be awarded a sufficient number of additional seats from a party list
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to win a majority of seats. Mintoff said he would not be ready to govern in such conditions and hinted that he would call for fresh elections within six months. However, he eventually accepted the
President's invitation to form a government and continued in office. This provoked a
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and electoral, police, postal zones without administrative functions.
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Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Trade
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685:(There are also statistical
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1068:& Philip Stöver (2010)
1041:Source: Nohlen & Stöver
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875:single transferable vote
846:single transferable vote
667:Administrative divisions
509:Law Courts and Tribunals
460:Leader of the Opposition
64:House of Representatives
865:to give it a majority.
1563:Presidential elections
730:Diplomatic missions of
560:ABBA (political party)
259:Elected Prime Minister
855:constitutional crisis
825:on 12 December 1981.
367:Deputy Prime Minister
328:Myriam Spiteri Debono
850:Maltese Labour Party
62:All 65 seats in the
1002:Invalid/blank votes
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443:Leader of the House
134:Last election
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859:political violence
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515:Commission for the
177:Popular vote
113:Eddie Fenech Adami
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545:Nationalist Party
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158:Seat change
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360:Robert Abela
313:Constitution
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77:First party
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1519:Referendums
1015:Total votes
989:Valid votes
842:Dom Mintoff
752:Visa policy
436:David Agius
264:Dom Mintoff
249:Dom Mintoff
190:Percentage
128:Nationalist
108:Dom Mintoff
1576:Categories
1561:See also:
1237:1904 (Apr)
1232:1904 (Feb)
1227:1904 (Jan)
1048:References
565:Volt Malta
402:Parliament
343:Government
687:Districts
581:elections
485:Judiciary
318:President
1072:, p1302
742:Passport
734:in Malta
720:Ian Borg
716:Minister
613:European
453:Ian Borg
377:Ian Borg
307:Republic
180:109,990
1031:238,239
1018:225,466
992:224,151
971:224,151
935:109,990
914:114,132
881:Results
674:Regions
579:Recent
409:Speaker
388:current
384:Cabinet
219:2.46pp
211:2.46pp
193:49.07%
184:114,132
104:Leader
85:
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1021:100.00
974:100.00
268:Labour
253:Labour
203:Swing
197:50.92%
123:Labour
119:Party
1034:94.64
1005:1,315
995:99.42
968:Total
938:49.07
917:50.92
899:Seats
893:Votes
890:Party
823:Malta
550:AD+PD
1551:2015
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1403:Next
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1074:ISBN
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