Belgian regional elections, 2004

On 13 June 2004, regional elections were held in Belgium, to choose representatives in the regional councils of the Flemish Parliament, the Walloon Parliament, the Brussels Parliament and the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The elections were held on the same day as the European elections.

Flemish Parliament

Flemish parliamentary election, 2004

13 June 2004

All 124 seats in the Flemish Parliament 62 seats needed for a majority

 Summary of the 13 June 2004 Flemish Parliament election results

← 1999 • 2004 • 2009 →
Party		Main ideology	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats			+/–
							FLA	BRU	TOT
	Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V) + New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)	Christian democracy	Yves Leterme	1,060,580	26.09	4.0	34	1	35	5
	Flemish Block (VB)	far-right Flemish nationalism	Filip Dewinter	981,587	24.15	8.4	29	3	32	10
	Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) + Vivant (VIVANT)	Liberalism	Bart Somers	804,578	19.79	3.9	24	1	25	2
	Socialist Party–Differently (SP.A) + Spirit (SPIRIT)	Social democracy	Frank Vandenbroucke	799,325	19.66	4.9	24	1	25	6
	Green! (GROEN!)	Green politics	Rudi Daems	308,898	7.60	3.9	6	0	6	6
	Union of Francophones (UF)	Francophone minority politics	Christian Van Eyken	43,391	1.07	0.1	1	0	1	0
	Others (parties and candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and no seats)			66,387	1.59	—	0	0	0	—
Valid votes				4,064,746	94.87
Blank and invalid votes				219,910	5.13
Totals				4,284,656	100.00	—	118	6	124	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				* 4,568,250	93.79	1.61
Notes: FLA = Flanders, BRU = Brussels (Capital Region), TOT = total / * = The number of registered voters is not known for the constituency to elect the Brussels Members of the Flemish Council (BMFC). Consequently, the number of registered voters and the turnout for the Flemish Council considers only the 5 provincial constituencies, excluding the constituency BMFC.

Vote share
CD&V-NV-A			26.09%
VB			24.15%
VLD-Vivant			19.79%
sp.a-Spirit			19.66%
Groen!			7.60%
UF			1.07%
Other			1.59%

In the Flemish Parliament election, the liberal-socialist government was put to the test. The far right Vlaams Blok became the second largest party in Flanders just after the alliance of conservatives Christian Democratic and Flemish-New Flemish Alliance (CD&V - N-VA). The green party Groen! managed to be elected and keeps half of their seats in the parliament. In contrast with the previous election, the People's Union (VU-ID) has split and the new parties, N-VA and Spirit, allied with CD&V and Different Socialist Party (SP.A) respectively.

Because of the cordon sanitaire of all the other parties against Vlaams Blok, a coalition of at least three parties needed to be formed in order to have a majority in the Flemish Parliament. Groen! confirmed that it did not want to take part in the new coalition, so the only coalition left was a conservative-socialist-liberal tripartite.

In the aftermath of the elections, Yves Leterme (CD&V) was selected to form a Flemish regional government.

Details

Region		Seats won per party						Total seats
	Provinces	CD&V + N-VA	VB	VLD + VIVANT	SP.A + SPIRIT	GROEN!	UF
Flanders	Antwerp	9 / 33	10 / 33	6 / 33	6 / 33	2 / 33	N/A	33 / 124
	East Flanders	7 / 27	6 / 27	7 / 27	5 / 27	2 / 27	N/A	27 / 124
	Flemish Brabant	5 / 20	5 / 20	4 / 20	4 / 20	1 / 20	1 / 20	20 / 124
	Limburg	5 / 16	4 / 16	3 / 16	4 / 16	N/A	N/A	16 / 124
	West Flanders	8 / 22	4 / 22	4 / 22	5 / 22	1 / 22	N/A	22 / 124
Brussels		1 / 6	3 / 6	1 / 6	1 / 6	N/A	N/A	6 / 124
Total		35 / 124	32 / 124	25 / 124	25 / 124	6 / 124	1 / 124	124 / 124

Walloon Regional Parliament

Walloon parliamentary election, 2004

13 June 2004

All 75 seats in the Walloon Parliament 38 seats needed for a majority

 Summary of the 13 June 2004 Walloon Parliament election results

← 1999 • 2004 • 2009 →
National party		Main ideology	Main candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Socialist Party (PS)	Social democracy	Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe	727,781	36.91	7.47	34	9
	Reformist Movement (MR)	Liberalism	Serge Kubla	478,999	24.29	*	20	*
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	Christian democracy	André Antoine	347,348	17.62	0.55	14	0
	Confederated Ecologists (ECOLO)	Green politics	Bernard Wesphael	167,916	8.52	9.70	3	11
	National Front (FN)	Nationalism		160,130	8.12	4.17	4	3
	Rassemblement Wallonie France (RWF)	Walloon movement		20,019	1.02	new	0	new
	Others (parties and candidates that received less than 1% of the vote and no seats)					—	0	—
Valid votes				1,971,705	93.36
Blank and invalid votes				140,167	6.64
Totals				2,111,872	100.00	—	75	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout				2,359,447	89.51	0.85

Vote share
PS			36.91%
MR			24.29%
cdH			17.62%
Ecolo			8.52%
FN			8.12%
RWF			1.02%
Other			3.52%

In the aftermath of the elections, Elio Di Rupo (PS) was selected to form a Walloon regional government.

Brussels Regional Parliament

Brussels parliamentary election, 2004

13 June 2004

All 89 seats in the Flemish Parliament 45 seats needed for a majority

In the aftermath of the elections, Charles Picqué (PS) was selected to form a Brussels regional government.

French language group

Party/Alliance		Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−
	PS	130,462	33.4%	+14.7%	26	+13
	MR	127,122	32.5%	−7.6%	25	−2
	CDH	55,078	14.1%	+4.9%	10	+4
	Ecolo	37,908	9.7%	−11.6%	7	−7
	FN	21,195	5.4%	+2.4%	4	+2
	FNB	2,656	1.5%	−0.8%	0	−1
	All Others	16,795	4.3%	--	0	0

Dutch language group

Party/Alliance		Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−
	Vlaams Blok	21,297	34.1%	+2.2%	6	+2
	VLD-Vivant	12,433	19.9%	--	4	0
	SP.A-Spirit	11,052	17.7%	--	3	0
	CD&V/N-VA	10,482	16.8%	--	3	0
	Groen!	6,132	9.8%	--	1	0
	All Others	1,110	1.8%	--	0	0

Parliament of the German-speaking Community

Party/Alliance		Votes	%	+/−	Seats	+/−
	CSP	11,905	32.8%	−2.0%	8	−1
	PFF-MR	7,615	21.0%	−0.3%	5	−1
	SP	6,903	19.0%	+4.0%	5	+1
	PJU-PDB	4,243	11.7%	−1.2%	3	±0
	Ecolo	2,972	8.2%	−4.5%	2	−1
	Vivant	2,665	7.3%	+4.0%	2	+2

Vote share
CSP			32.79%
PFF-MR			20.98%
SP			19.01%
PJU-PDB			11.69%
Ecolo			8.19%
Vivant			7.34%

External links

• Pooling results on the Official Federal web site