Labour wins but humbled, as lead decimated in MEP election 

The Labour Party has won the 2024 MEP elections, but it was bruised and battered by an electorate that decimated its lead.
The party is projected to have won the election by under 10,000 votes - a lead that would have been considered massive decades ago but which would be the party's narrowest electoral victory in more than 20 years and one-fourth the 42,000-vote majority achieved in 2019.
Labour leader Robert Abela said it was a "solid" victory but that voters had sent the party an "important message". Nationalist leader Bernard Grech said it was his party's “best ever” showing in the European Parliament elections.
Vote counting remains ongoing and it remains to be seen which candidates will fill Malta's six MEP seats.