The voting gap between the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party has officially hit an all-time low in this year’s European Parliament election with just 8,400 votes standing between the two parties.

This is less than half of the last EP election in 2019 when the gap between the two parties was 42,656 votes.

Rumours about a drop in the gap began circulating early on in the counting hall. After Labour’s win, Nationalist Party Secretary Michael Piccinino declared that the gap was somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 votes earlier today.

This is the slimmest margin by which Labour has won an EP election since 2004 when it won by around 21,000 votes. In 2004, the PL won by 21,000, in 2009 it went up to 35,000, in 2014 it was 34,000 while, in 2019, the gap was 42,000.

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