District 11 – blue hopes

The 11th district, consisting of Mdina, Attard, Mosta and Burmarrad, was a happy hunting ground for the Nationalist Party in the 2017 election.
Of the five seats up for grabs, the PN managed to secure three, leaving Labour with the remaining two. In percentage terms, this translated to 55.42 per cent of the vote for the PN and 43 per cent for Labour.
AD managed just 1.2 per cent of the vote, with the rest going to other small parties.
Then PN leader Simon Busuttil attracted the lion’s share of the votes, followed by current PN deputy leader David Agius and Edwin Vassallo.
Both Busuttil and Agius gave up their seats, having been elected on other districts in the last election.
This paved the way for Ivan Bartolo and Maria Fatima Deguara, a doctor specialising in family medicine, to take up seats in parliament via a casual election.
Anthony Agius Decelis was the lead candidate for Labour, followed closely by AlexMuscat. The pair, who were both elected on the 23rd count, were separated by less than 400 votes.

What to look out for
PN leader Bernard Grech should follow in Busuttil’s footsteps by attracting the largest tally of votes on the blue list. Agius, Vassallo, Deguara and...