The Nationalists gained 25 seats, the Labour Party 16, the DNP 4 and Mabel Strickland's PCP 1.

The Nationalists hailed this as a great victory, but the Catholic Church considered it as a defeat; 36% still voted for the Labour Party under pain of interdiction.

As a direct result, Mintoff increased his party's share of the vote at the expense of the CWP.

It supported independence from the United Kingdom by a gradual process of economic development.

It wanted to reduce economic dependence on the British military presence and to abolish direct taxation in order to become a tax haven[1]