YOUR GUIDE TO VOTING IN MALTA
When to Vote
8 June 2024
Mark your calendars!
Anyone aged 16 or over on the election day can vote if they have residency in Malta and hold either Maltese citizenship or the citizenship of another EU country.
Do I have an obligation to Vote?
No, there is no legal obligation to vote. But you know what we say…use your vote anyway!
Where can I vote?
If you are a Maltese citizen voting in Malta
If you live in Malta, you can vote at the polling station close to your home address. The authorities usually send a notification or voters and mention the address of the polling station. And guess what?! You don’t have to register, the authorities will do it for you. You can always check on this page if you are on the voters’ list.
If you are a Maltese citizen voting from another EU country
Unfortunately, you cannot vote from abroad for the European Elections in Malta.
If you are an Maltese citizen voting from a country outside the EU
Unfortunately, you cannot vote from abroad for the European Elections in Malta.
If you are EU citizen voting in Malta
As a legal resident in Malta, you can of course vote there! Make sure to register in advance to be on the voters’ list. You can find the application form on this website.
Deadline to register: no later than 15 April 2024.
Voting & accessibility
Do you have a disability or an illness? If you cannot go to the polling station, there are forms of assistance available:
- all the voting polling stations should be accessible in Malta
- you can request to have priority when voting in the queue at a specific time at the polling stations (provided by law)
- you can request a Braille template and a listening device if you have a visual impairment
- you can ask for assistance when filling the voting ballot at the polling station
fun facts
- Malta joined the European Union on 1 May 2004.
- Malta will have 6 members of the European Parliament the same as in the previous elections in 2019.
- There is only one national constituency and everyone votes for the same list across the country.
- Malta uses the single transferable vote, voters rank the candidates, as many as they want. Then, the candidates need to be voted a minimum, calculated by dividing the total number of valid ballot papers by one more than the number of seats to be filled and adding one to the result. Those who surpass the quota are immediately elected and the excess votes go to other candidates.
- Since voters in Malta vote for candidates, the threshold (quota) for the European elections is the number of valid votes divided by seven, the number of seats plus one.
- The name of the island nation is supposedly derived from a Greek word meaning “honey.” The island has an endemic species of bee, which produces a unique type of honey for which the island is very well known.