Dr Sant waves his voting document to show he did not vote in the referendum.Ten years after losing his battle to keep Malta out of the European Union, Alfred Sant is clearly the biggest winner of the European elections.
A decade after he boasted that he had not voted in the accession referendum, Dr Sant will ease into the European Parliament with much more than the number of votes he needs on the first count.
In so doing the former prime minister will be effectively swapping with Joseph Muscat, who resigned his post in the EP to join the local political fray, and eventually became prime minister.
A cursory look at the pigeon holes at Naxxar counting hall shows Dr Sant's votes piling up on all districts.
Behind Dr Sant but ahead of the others is former journalist Miriam Dalli, while for the PN, incumbents Roberta Metsola and David Casa are set to be re-elected.
Mr Casa will be the only candidate elected from all three European Parliament elections held in Malta so far.
It is unclear who will win the fifth seat - Labour's third - with the battle being between incumbent, Marlene Mizzi, Gozitan Clint Camilleri and Joseph Cuschieri, another incumbent .
All eyes, however, will be on the destination of the sixth seat and whether it will be retained by Labour or won by the PN.
Should it be clinched by the Nationalists, the odds appear to favour Francis Zammit Dimech, although Ray Bugeja is not doing badly and much could depend on how the votes are inherited.
None of the small political groups (a total of seven per cent of the vote) have come anywhere close to getting anyone elected, but observers are watching the progress of Norman Lowell's Imperium Europa, which could well equal or surpass Alternattiva Demokratika. Mr Lowell could end up winning some 7,000 votes, twice what he got in the same elections in 2009.
The way how the votes from the small groups are inherited as well as where the elected candidates' surplus votes will go will determine whether the PL will hold on to its fourth seat or the PN will win its third.