| Dual Candidacies, by Political Party, 1921 - 2008 | ||||||||||
| The percentage column indicates the share of a party's candidacies | ||||||||||
| that was accounted for by dual candidacies. | ||||||||||
| The tabulation excludes independent candidates. | ||||||||||
| Number of | % Dual | Number of | % Dual | |||||||
| Party | Year | Candidacies | candidacies | Party | Year | Candidacies | candidacies | |||
| AD | 1992 | 27 | 88.89 | LP | 1921 | 15 | 0.00 | |||
| AD | 1996 | 28 | 57.14 | LP | 1924 | 21 | 28.57 | |||
| AD | 1998 | 27 | 66.67 | LP | 1927 | 20 | 30.00 | |||
| AD | 2003 | 28 | 71.01 | LP | 1932 | 13 | 61.54 | |||
| AD | 2008 | 16 | 87.50 | MLP | 1947 | 39 | 35.90 | |||
| MLP | 1950 | 39 | 30.77 | |||||||
| ALPHA | 2008 | 2 | 100.00 | MLP | 1951 | 33 | 36.36 | |||
| MLP | 1953 | 51 | 35.29 | |||||||
| AN | 2008 | 21 | 95.24 | MLP | 1955 | 65 | 24.62 | |||
| MLP | 1962 | 62 | 48.39 | |||||||
| Comm | 1987 | 12 | 100.00 | MLP | 1966 | 72 | 22.22 | |||
| MLP | 1971 | 94 | 34.04 | |||||||
| Const | 1921 | 28 | 21.43 | MLP | 1976 | 109 | 38.53 | |||
| Const | 1924 | 30 | 20.00 | MLP | 1981 | 93 | 36.56 | |||
| Const | 1927 | 25 | 16.00 | MLP | 1987 | 124 | 51.61 | |||
| Const | 1932 | 29 | 20.69 | MLP | 1992 | 117 | 63.25 | |||
| Const | 1950 | 32 | 43.75 | MLP | 1996 | 113 | 60.18 | |||
| Const | 1951 | 23 | 60.87 | MLP | 1998 | 127 | 64.57 | |||
| Const | 1953 | 12 | 66.67 | MLP | 2003 | 106 | 50.94 | |||
| MLP | 2008 | 102 | 60.78 | |||||||
| PCP | 1953 | 31 | 51.61 | |||||||
| PCP | 1955 | 15 | 66.67 | PN | 1927 | 33 | 6.06 | |||
| PCP | 1962 | 50 | 64.00 | PN | 1932 | 33 | 6.06 | |||
| PCP | 1966 | 27 | 81.48 | PN | 1947 | 32 | 25.00 | |||
| PCP | 1971 | 19 | 63.16 | PN | 1950 | 40 | 40.00 | |||
| PN | 1951 | 38 | 31.58 | |||||||
| CWP | 1962 | 54 | 48.15 | PN | 1953 | 45 | 26.67 | |||
| CWP | 1966 | 59 | 57.63 | PN | 1955 | 61 | 22.95 | |||
| PN | 1962 | 63 | 28.57 | |||||||
| DAP | 1947 | 36 | 38.89 | PN | 1966 | 76 | 28.95 | |||
| DAP | 1950 | 30 | 73.33 | PN | 1971 | 78 | 33.33 | |||
| PN | 1976 | 115 | 60.87 | |||||||
| DCP | 1962 | 13 | 76.92 | PN | 1981 | 135 | 57.78 | |||
| PN | 1987 | 95 | 54.74 | |||||||
| DNP | 1921 | 4 | 0.00 | PN | 1992 | 96 | 68.75 | |||
| DNP | 1924 | 18 | 0.00 | PN | 1996 | 103 | 54.37 | |||
| DNP | 1962 | 58 | 58.62 | PN | 1998 | 125 | 49.60 | |||
| DNP | 1966 | 24 | 91.67 | PN | 2003 | 113 | 46.02 | |||
| PN | 2008 | 112 | 62.50 | |||||||
| DP | 1987 | 8 | 100.00 | |||||||
| All | 1921 | 27 | 8.00 | |||||||
| Gozo | 1947 | 7 | 0.00 | All | 1924 | 82 | 19.78 | |||
| All | 1927 | 78 | 15.38 | |||||||
| IL | 1932 | 5 | 40.00 | All | 1932 | 80 | 22.50 | |||
| All | 1947 | 122 | 29.51 | |||||||
| Jones | 1947 | 8 | 0.00 | All | 1950 | 182 | 41.76 | |||
| Jones | 1950 | 5 | 0.00 | All | 1951 | 128 | 40.63 | |||
| Jones | 1951 | 2 | 0.00 | All | 1953 | 172 | 38.37 | |||
| All | 1955 | 141 | 28.37 | |||||||
| MWP | 1950 | 36 | 33.33 | All | 1962 | 300 | 50.00 | |||
| MWP | 1951 | 32 | 43.75 | All | 1966 | 258 | 44.96 | |||
| MWP | 1953 | 33 | 36.36 | All | 1971 | 191 | 36.65 | |||
| All | 1976 | 224 | 50.00 | |||||||
| UPM | 1921 | 28 | 0.00 | All | 1981 | 228 | 49.12 | |||
| UPM | 1924 | 22 | 27.27 | All | 1987 | 239 | 56.90 | |||
| All | 1992 | 240 | 68.33 | |||||||
| All | 1996 | 244 | 57.38 | |||||||
| The 1939 and 1945 elections to a | All | 1998 | 279 | 58.06 | ||||||
| 10-member Council are not included. | All | 2003 | 247 | 51.01 | ||||||
| All | 2008 | 256 | 67.19 | |||||||