Belgian general election, 1974
Belgian general election, 1974
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Colours denote the winning party in each electoral district (for the Chamber of Deputies). |
General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974.[1] The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%.[2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils, as well as for the Council of the German Cultural Community for the first time.
Results
Chamber of Deputies
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
Belgian Socialist Party | 1,401,725 | 26.66 | 59 | New |
Christian People's Party | 1,222,646 | 23.25 | 50 | +10 |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 798,818 | 15.19 | 30 | +26 |
People's Union | 536,287 | 10.20 | 22 | +1 |
Christian Social Party | 478,209 | 9.09 | 22 | +7 |
FDF-PDLP | 301,303 | 5.73 | 14 | New |
Walloon Rally | 269,455 | 5.12 | 11 | −1 |
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 164,592 | 3.13 | 0 | −25 |
Communist Party of Belgium | 107,481 | 2.04 | 2 | New |
BSP–Red Lions | 86,929 | 1.65 | 0 | New |
UDP | 58,257 | 1.11 | 0 | New |
Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) | 20,866 | 0.40 | 0 | −11 |
AMADA/TPO | 19,794 | 0.38 | 0 | New |
VFP-PFU | 18,511 | 0.35 | 0 | New |
MO | 9,184 | 0.17 | 0 | New |
Party of German-speaking Belgians | 8,700 | 0.17 | 0 | New |
PLW | 6,846 | 0.13 | 0 | New |
FDP | 4,729 | 0.09 | 0 | New |
UDP-DN | 3,623 | 0.07 | 2 | New |
Rex Fr | 2,764 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
RLiège | 1,810 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
Kaganov | 1,678 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
SAP | 1,445 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
Diependale | 1,229 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
A74 | 979 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
PRS | 905 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
Zwartberg | 665 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
Trotskyists | 645 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
URB | 389 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
PUR | 184 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 453,108 | – | – | – |
Total | 5,711,639 | 100 | 212 | 0 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
Senate
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
Belgian Socialist Party | 1,301,722 | 25.11 | 27 | New |
Christian People's Party | 1,219,811 | 23.53 | 27 | New |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 755,694 | 14.58 | 16 | +1 |
FDF-RW-PDLP | 589,553 | 11.37 | 13 | New |
People's Union | 545,215 | 10.52 | 10 | New |
Christian Social Party | 430,512 | 8.30 | 10 | New |
Communist Party of Belgium | 115,007 | 2.22 | 1 | 0 |
BSP–Red Lions | 82,959 | 1.60 | 2 | +2 |
UDP | 60,400 | 1.16 | 0 | 0 |
Party for Liberty and Progress (Wallonia) | 21,782 | 0.42 | 0 | New |
AMADA | 16,744 | 0.32 | 0 | New |
Party of German-speaking Belgians | 15,624 | 0.30 | 0 | New |
VFP | 11,910 | 0.23 | 0 | New |
PMO | 5,918 | 0.11 | 0 | New |
Iependael | 2,874 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
Zwartberg | 5,129 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
Kaganovemus | 1,903 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 |
PMO/URB | 1,078 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
A74 | 942 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
PLW | 597 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
PUR | 156 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 527,014 | – | – | – |
Total | 5,711,729 | 100 | 106 | 0 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
Council of the German Cultural Community
In this election, the new Council of the German Cultural Community (Rat der deutschen Kulturgemeinschaft) was directly elected for the first time; members of the council had been appointed a year earlier. The council is the precursor to the Parliament of the German-speaking Community.
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p291