Counting is due to start at midday at the Naxxar Counting Hall for the European Parliament Elections, and the tension is beginning to mount.

The European Parliament Office in Malta has said that the approximate voting turnout was 74.81% at the close of polling at 10.00pm last night. There were 344,356 registered voters.

In the 2009 Elections there were 322,411 registered voters and the turnout was 78.8%, valid votes were 97.7%.

The Electoral Commission said that the ballot papers accounted for in ballot boxes is as follows:

Table and Number of votes

1: 18719

2: 19196

3: 19748

4: 19941

5: 18853

6: 19390

7: 18224

8: 20711

9: 21169

10: 19959

11: 22015

12 20675

13: 18988

Total 257588.

Photo: European Parliament Office in Malta

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