Just four women were elected during the 2022 general election but a deeper analysis also shows that women contesting on the Labour ticket obtained almost 20,000 first-count votes, which compares very well with the 14,000 first preferences obtained in 2017
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
Just four women were directly elected to parliament but their ranks are set to swell through casual elections and the quota mechanism
Despite aspirations of ge
From PN candidates abandoning ship on day one to Robert Abela’s villa in Żejtun, here’s a look back at some of the key moments from the election cam