The process of transferring votes from and to candidates is a distinguishing and essential feature of the single-transferable-vote system.

The tabulations provided here cover all such vote transfers in all Maltese general elections from 1921 to 2008. This involves some 3,305 separate counts on which votes were transferred.

The data are displayed in differing formats to suit the needs and preferences of different users: Some tabulations are highly detailed and others are of a summary nature.

A large Excel file containing all vote tranfer data , from which the tabulations below are derived, is available to those who may be interested in undertaking their own analyses.

Two Detailed Tabulations:

Detailed Tabulation (1) This set of files displays the votes transferred by and to specific candidates, separately for each year and district. They offer the greatest amount of detail and provided the raw data on which all other transfer vote tabulations are based.

Detailed Tabulation (2) These files show the number of vote transfers by candidates of one party to candidates of other parties, for each election, district and count, with an indication of the number of candidates then eligible to receive transfer votes.

Two Summary Tabulations:

Summary Tabulation (1) Files reporting, for each election, the cumulative national totals of transfer votes by candidates of one political party to candidates of all other parties. There are separate files for those counts where candidates of the same party still eligible, or no longer eligible, to receive transfer votes.

Summary Tabulation (2) Summary files displaying the cumulative totals of vote transfers, by party and district, in each election, specifying both the party from whose candidates votes were transferred and the party whose candidates received such votes.