Council Majorities
With all councils having an odd-numbered membership, the attainment of a majority for one or
of another competing group is facilitated. Consequently, most councils have had clear-cut
majorities for either the PN, the MLP (or Independents) or a local group. Nevertheless, there have
some eighteen instances of three-sided contests where none of these competing slates managed
to gain a majority of the seats.
The Tables  shows the frequencies of the various majority possibilities. (It be should be noted that
no party majority is listed for localities that did not have competitive elections.) In rounds 1 to 4
the PN attained a council majority more often than any of the other competitors, but that pattern
changed substantially in the most recent round, with the MLP acquiring a majority in 38 councils
(not counting Marsa and Zejtun which are excluded from the MLP column because there were
no competitive elections in those localities in 2005).
	Notes on the Tables below:
	*	The entries labeled "MLP" refer to Indendents in Rounds 1 and 2 and the MLP in susequent Rounds
	*	"No Maj." means no party or group obtained a majority of the seats.
	*	A blank space indicates that -- in the absence of  a competitive election -- no offifical data on the
		party affiliations are officially published and the Tables do not take into account unofficial information
		about the party status of candidates that might be obtained by inference or from unofficial sources.
	*	"Group" refers to one of the ad hoc local groups listed at the bottom of Table 2.
	Table 1: Council Majorities - Summary
			Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
		PN	30	31	33	35	27
		MLP	26	20	29	31	38
		Local Group	3	2	0	0	0
		No Majority	7	7	3	1	1
		No Competitive Election	1	7	3	1	2
		All	67	67	68	68	68
	Table 2: Majority Status, by Locality and Election Round
		Locality	1st Round	2nd Round	3rd Round	4th Round	5th Round	6th Round
		Attard	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Balzan	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Birgu (Vittoriosa)	Group	No Maj.	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Birkirkara	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Birzebbuga	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Bormla	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Dingli	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Fgura	Group	No Maj.	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Floriana	Ind	Ind	No Maj.	No Maj.	No Maj.
		Fontana	PN	PN			PN	PN
		Ghajnsielem	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Gharb	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Gharghur	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Ghasri	PN	PN		PN	PN	PN
		Ghaxaq	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Gudja	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Gzira	Ind	PN	No Maj.	PN	MLP
		Hamrun	No Maj.	PN	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Iklin	No Maj.	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Isla (Senglea)	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Kalkara	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Kercem	PN		PN	PN	PN
		Kirkop			MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Lija	Ind	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Luqa	Ind	No Maj.	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Marsa	Ind	Group	MLP	MLP		MLP
		Marsaskala	Ind	No Maj.	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Marsaxlokk	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Mdina	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Mellieha	No Maj.	PN	PN	MLP	MLP	PN
		Mgarr	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Mosta	PN	PN	PN	PN	MLP
		Mqabba	PN	PN	PN	PN	MLP	PN
		Msida	Ind	PN	PN	PN	MLP
		Mtarfa			No Maj.	MLP	MLP
		Munxar	PN		PN	PN	PN
		Nadur	PN	No Maj.	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Naxxar	Ind	Ind	PN	PN	PN
		Paola	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Pembroke	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Pieta	No Maj.		PN	PN	MLP
		Qala	No Maj.		PN	PN	PN
		Qormi	No Maj.	PN	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Qrendi	PN	PN	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Rabat (Gozo)	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Rabat (Malta)	PN	PN	PN	MLP	MLP
		Safi	Ind			PN	PN
		San Giljan	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		San Gwann	PN	PN	PN	PN	MLP
		San Lawrenz	PN		PN	PN	PN
		San Pawl il-Bahar	PN	No Maj.	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Sannat	No Maj.	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Santa Lucija	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Santa Venera	PN	PN	PN	PN	MLP	PN
		Siggiewi	PN	No Maj.	PN	PN	PN
		Sliema	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Swieqi	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Tarxien	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Ta'xbiex	PN	PN	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Valletta	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Xaghra	PN	PN	PN	PN	MLP
		Xewkija	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Xghajra	Group	Group	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Zabbar	Ind	Ind	MLP	PN	MLP
		Zebbug (Gozo)	PN	PN	PN	PN	PN
		Zebbug (Malta)	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
		Zejtun	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP		MLP
		Zurrieq	Ind	Ind	MLP	MLP	MLP	MLP
			(a) Birgu Independent List
			(b) Ahna Tal-Fgura
			(c) Marsa Maghqda
			(d) Grupp Indipendenti Xghajra