The final list of MPs following the 2026 General election still depends on the results of casual elections that will need to take place, and also on the Gender corrective mechanism.

A number of former MPs from last legislature contested but did not meet the quota during last Sunday’s vote counting exercise. Under the electoral system, a candidate may contest on two districts, but may only keep one if elected on both, and a casual election would need to take place on the other

PL

The PL’s executive determines which seats of dual-district winners are to be vacated.

Among these candidates are former Parliamentary Secretary for Social Dialogue and Accommodation Andy Ellul. On the 3rd district, he was knocked out on the 18th count, the closest of the PL candidates to the quota who was not elected. He also contested on the 4th District.

Mr Ellul will have an strong opportunity to be elected through a casual election, given that Chris Fearne was elected from the same two districts he contested, and thus will need to give up one. Jonathan Attard was also elected from two districts, one of which was the 4th, so if he gives up the latter district, Mr Ellul will also have an opportunity here.

The PL’s Katya De Giovanni and Amanda Spiteri Grech, both MPs in the last legislature, both also contested on the 4th district and did not meet the quota. Ms De Giovanni also contested on the 10th district and Ms Spiteri Grech on the 2nd District, although they were not elected on Sunday from either. The two would have an opportunity through possible casual elections on all three districts.

Former PL President and MP Ramona Attard contested on the 6th and 8th Districts, but did not meet the quotas. A casual election is possible on both districts, and Ms Attard stands a strong chance of being elected.

Former PL Whip Naomi Cachia also did not meet the quota on Sunday. She contested on the 7th and 12th Districts. A possibility of a casual election exists on the 7th District, and she would have a good chance of election. There is also a chance of a casual election on the 12th District, but there are unelected PL candidates who received far more votes than she did.

Former PL MP Cressida Galea contested on the1st and 8th Districts, but did not make the quote last Sunday. There is a chance of a casual election on the 8th District should Clyde Caruana give up that seat, however she did not receive many votes on this district.

Rebecca Buttigieg, a former Parliamentary Secretary was also not elected on Sunday. She contested the 9th and 10th Districts and had a strong showing. Two casual elections, at least one on each of those two Districts, would need to take place given that both Clifton Grima and Michael Falzon were elected from both, and she was the candidate who received the most votes aside from those elected on both Districts.

Former PL MP Alex Muscat did not meet the required quota on Sunday, but the 8th and 11th Districts on which he contested could both see a casual election, and he would have a particularly strong chance on the 11th, where he was the PL candidate with the most votes who did not meet the quota.

Another former PL MP, Romilda Zarb, also contested the 11th District, and the 12th. Casual elections could take place on both, however there are PL candidates both districts who were ahead of her in the polls.

Former PL MP Abigail Camilleri contested on the 13th District but was not elected. No casual election will take place on this district.

Aside from the casual elections, there is also the Gender Corrective mechanism, which means that some candidates will have the opportunity to be elected to Parliament even if they lose or don’t contest a casual election.

PN

The Nationalist Party's statute stipulates that generally PN candidates who are elected from two districts have to give up the seat in the district where they received the lower number of first count votes as a percentage of the respective district quota. The following takes this to be the general rule.

From the PN’s side of things, former MP Bernice Bonello contested on the 2nd and 4th Districts, with a strong showing in both, however there is no casual election expected to take place on either district for the PN.

Former PN Stanley Zammit also did not meet the quote on Sunday. He contested on the 5th District. A casual election will take place, and Stanley Zammit received the highest number of votes on this district from the PN candidates last Sunday, aside from those who have been elected.

Former MP Charles Azzopardi contested the election, on the 7th and 12th Districts. A casual election will take place on the 7th. But he would need to contend with another former PN MP who did not make the quota on Sunday, Ian Mario Vassallo, who was closer to getting elected on this district than he was.

Mr Vassallo also contested on the 12th District, although no casual election for the PN will take place on that district.

Former MP Julie Zahra did not reach the quota on Sunday on the two districts she contested – the 8th and 9th. There is no casual election set to take place for the PN on these two districts.

On the 9th District, a number of other former PN MPs contested but did not get elected in last Sunday’s vote county. These are Graziella Attard Previ, Graham Bencini, and Albert Buttigieg.

All three also contested on the 10th District, on which two casual elections are expected to take place.

Special mention: Some well-known names from the two major parties who also contested, but did not reach the quota on Sunday

PL candidate Omar Rababah contested on the 6th and 7th Districts, but did not receive many votes. There is a chance of a casual election on both the 6th and 7th Districts, but there are other PL candidates who received more votes on both.

PN candidate George Vital Zammit, who authored the party’s manifesto, contested on the 6th and 12th Districts, both of which will not see casual elections for the party.

Clint Azzopardi Flores is a PL candidate on the 2nd and 9th Districts. A casual election could take place on the 9th and also on the 2nd.

Lawyer Deborah Schembri, a former Parliamentary Secretary for the PL who had left Parliament in 2017, contested this year on the 10th and 12th Districts. Casual elections could take place on both.

Josef Bugeja (1st and 8th Districts) and Jesmond Bonello (2nd and 8th Districts) are both trade unionists who contested with the PL. Mr Bugeja was until recently the Secretary General of the GWU, while Mr Bonello was previously a Director at UHM, resigning in 2020. Both did not meet Sunday’s quota, but casual elections could take place on the 2nd and 8th.

Noel Muscat, PN Swieqi Mayor who appears frequently on party media, contested on the 9th and 10th Districts, and two casual elections are set to take place on the latter for the PN.

Dione Borg, a Net journalist and presenter, contested for the PN on the 11th, but the PN will not have a casual election on that district.

A gender-corrective mechanism that is in place would also see a number of female candidate elected to Parliament, to ensure proportionality.