Three websites helping voters navigate Malta’s election 

Malta’s election process can get complicated.  

Voters do not simply show up at the polling station and vote for their favourite party. Rather, they rank candidates and can cross party lines, although their first-count vote effectively counts as a vote for their preferred party.  

Electoral pledges can also be difficult to follow. Political parties make wide-ranging promises, and voters have to assess which ones are likely to be kept.  

But in 2026, technological advancements mean voters do not have to spend hours reading through manifestos or making calculations to figure out how to rank their candidate preferences most effectively. Here are three websites that could help voters make a more informed decision for the general election on May 30.  

Reality Check helps track the feasibility of various pledges 

Reality Check Malta 

At the start of the campaign, political parties were making pledges every day, and it wasn’t always easy to keep up with what was being said - but Reality Check Malta helped make this process easier for people.  

Under the tagline ‘Who is selling a dream?’, the website uses AI to track the pledges made by each political party and gives each pledge a feasibility rating, assessing whether it could realistically be implemented within a normal legislative term.

Generally, a pledge is considered feasible if it can be funded within existing budget lines, sits within executive authority, follows routine delivery patterns and does not depend on uncertain third parties.  

The maker of the website, who declined to be named, told Times of Malta he wanted to create an unbiased system and see what it would make of the political parties and their proposals.  

“I built it in an evening, combining various models of GPT and Gemini to collect and parse the information and let the AI run it as its own project, researching its own sources and providing its own verdicts.” 

From the data currently available on its website, the Labour Party leads the way with a policy platform considered 82% realistic. The PN is not too far off – its policies have been given an overall rating of 79%. Meanwhile, ADPD and Momentum are tied at 76%. 

Malta Elections is a treasure trove of electoral data, from official results to survey indications 

Malta Elections 

After using realitycheckmalta.com for your proposal research, Malta Elections could help you understand the historical background to elections in Malta, the candidates in your district, and a survey tracker to see how public sentiment has shifted throughout the election campaign.  

The website was built by 110 Analytics, a new start-up focused on data, strategy and marketing.

Glen Sultana, who founded the company, said the idea behind the website was to provide a single dashboard that gives people access to a repository of electoral results without interpreting the data for the user.  

“The site is deliberately explanatory and data-led. It is not interpretative. We do analysis, but we don’t tell people what to think. We let the numbers speak. That’s a conscious choice,” Sultana said.  

The survey tracker is unique as it collects all public survey results and displays them in a single chart.

“Every pollster in Malta claims to be the accurate one,” he said.

“So we’ve put together the data on which surveys were actually accurate historically, alongside each pollster’s final survey before the vote. People can judge for themselves. We think that’s more useful than another opinion piece.” 

Sultana thinks the dashboard could be useful for voters, journalists, students, party strategists, and anyone curious about how people vote in Malta.

“The conversation around elections can start from a shared, factual baseline rather than from whichever number someone half-remembered from a Facebook post.” 

Vot.mt lets people better understand how their vote travels between candidates 

Vot.mt 

You know what the parties are proposing, you know who is standing in your district, and you know what the public sentiment is looking like. But do you really know how your vote works? 

At first glance, the system looks straightforward: you just vote for your preferred candidates by ranking them according to preference. But your vote could travel from one candidate to another, depending on who you vote for and in what order.

This is a complicated process that would be easier to understand with a visualisation – and that’s exactly what vot.mt tries to do.  

Using data from the electoral registry, the website allows users to choose a district from any of the last four general elections and fill in an online ballot similar to what they use on election day.

Once the ballot is filled, the website simulates the voting process, and users can see how their vote gets transferred from one candidate to another.  

Alex Portelli, one of the founders of the website, said the inspiration came after speaking with friends and family and realising that they don’t really understand how the system works, how the vote is inherited, and how more than one candidate can be elected through your vote.  

Together with Andrea Delicata and David Grech, the three of them locked themselves in a room for 24 hours across two days and built the website in that time. Portelli tried to prepare as much data and branding as possible beforehand so that they could focus on the website itself.  

“Our mission is to educate people on one of our most fundamental rights. We have a vote which we can leverage to make our voices heard – if we can fully understand how it works,” he said.  

Because some candidates have lost parliamentary seats by as few as nine votes, the website helps voters understand how their preferences can affect the result.