Follow our live updates on Saturday 9 March and Sunday 10 March from the Naxxar counting hall.
Storified by MaltaToday · Sat, Mar 09 2013 15:34:00
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12:29am The lowest turnouts are in the Nationalist strongholds of the 10th 'Sliema' district and the 12th districts with 90%, while Labour strongholds, especially the fourth where Labour leader Joseph Muscat is contesting had a high turnout.
11:32pm Political party sources believe the unconfirmed electoral turnout is at 91%, two points less than the 2008 93% turnout.
10:00pm Polling stations have closed.
The people have spoken. We have but to wait to understand what they said.
Thks to hundreds of volunteers who worked relentlessly over past years,months,days,hrs.Whatever the result,you did a great job-JM #malta2013
9:35pm 25 minutes to go till polling booths close.
6:02pm Nationalist MP Clyde Puli has denied "defamatory allegations" appearing in the Facebook page of the website elections2013.com, which claimed that his brother Ralph was arrested or taken in at the Qormi police station on alleged vote-buying. The website is run by an IT consultancy firm.
More details trickling in, Ralph Puli was held at Qormi..
Ralph Puli, Hu il kandidat Nazzjonalista Clyde Puli (u grupp iehor ta nies) jigu arrestati fuq suspett ta' xiri ta' voti
5:43pm Labour MPs Charles Mangion and Helena Dalli, as well as Labour candidate Chris Cilia have been called in for questioning by the police for breaching the day of reflection. Also, unconfirmed reports of the arrest of canvassers on alleged vote-buying have pervaded the social media networks.
4:30pm 2pm turnout is 49% which puts it at par with the 2003 general election turnout at 2pm: highest turnouts (equal or over 50%), are the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th, and 13th districts.
4:22pm The PN has removed a social media app dubbed "I VOTED" in which voters would have sent our a Facebook message or Tweet showing they had voted for the PN... obviously it turns out that doing so on voting day is in breach of the General Elections Act, whose day of silence is 'observable' both on the eve and on the day of voting.
4:19pm We're asking the same question ourselves... where are the 2pm turnouts from the Electoral Commission and DOI?
#Malta2013 what happened to the turnout percentages? where are they?
