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were held in Belgium on 18 June 1989. The Dutch-speaking electoral college elected 13

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and the French-speaking electoral college elected 11 MEPs. The first election to the newly established Brussels Regional Council was held on the same day.

Results

National

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Leo Tindemans Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans (; 16 April 1922 – 26 December 2014) was a Belgian politician. He served as the prime minister of Belgium serving from 25 April 1974 until he resigned as minister on 20 October 1978. He was a member of the Chri ...

, style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 1,247,075 , , 21.14 , , , , 34.08 , , 5 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" ,

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

(PS) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Ernest Glinne , style="text-align: left;" , French-speaking , 854,207 , , 14.48 , , , , 38.13 , , 5 , , 0 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" ,

(SP) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Marc Galle Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of ...

, style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 733,242 , , 12.43 , , , , 20.04 , , 3 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" ,

Party for Freedom and Progress The Party for Freedom and Progress ( nl, Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang; french: Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès; german: Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt, PVV-PLP) was a liberal political party in Belgium which existed from 1961 unti ...

(PVV) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Willy De Clercq Willy Clarisse Elvire Hector, Viscount De Clercq (8 July 1927 – 28 October 2011) was a Belgian liberal politician. De Clercq was born in Ghent, son of Frans de Clercq.Etat présent de la noblesse belge 2015, p. 62 After his law and notariat s ...

, style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 625,561 , , 10.60 , , , , 17.10 , , 2 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:orange;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Christian Social Party (PSC) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Gérard Deprez Gérard M.J. Deprez (born 13 August 1943 in Noville, Bastogne) is a Belgian politician. He was the president of the Walloon Christian Social Party (PSC) from 1981 to 1996. In 1998 he left the PSC and founded the Citizens' Movement for Change (MCC ...

, style="text-align: left;" , French-speaking , 476,795 , , 8.08 , , , , 21.28 , , 2 , , 0 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" , Living Differently (AGALEV) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Paul Staes , style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 446,539 , , 7.57 , , , , 12.20 , , 1 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:blue;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Liberal Reformist Party (PRL) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

François-Xavier de Donnéa François-Xavier is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * François-Xavier Archambault (1841–1893), a lawyer and political figure in Quebec * François-Xavier Audouin (1765–1837), a French clergyman and politic ...

, style="text-align: left;" , French-speaking , 423,479 , , 7.18 , , , , 18.90 , , 2 , , 1 , - , style="background-color:green;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Confederated Ecologists (ECOLO) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Paul Lannoye Paul Lannoye (22 June 1939 – 4 December 2021) was a Belgian politician. He was one of the founding members of the Ecolo party and a Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been el ...

, style="text-align: left;" , French-speaking , 371,053 , , 6.29 , , , , 16.56 , , 2 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" , People's Union (VU) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" , Jaak Vandemeulebroucke , style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 318,153 , , 5.39 , , , , 8.70 , , 1 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align: left;" ,

Flemish Block ''Vlaams Blok'' ( en, Flemish Block, or VB) was the name of a Belgian far-right and secessionist political party with an anti-immigration platform.Erk, 2005, pp. 493-502. Its ideologies embraced Flemish nationalism, calling for the independence ...

(VB) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Karel Dillen Karel Cornelia Constantijn Dillen (16 October 1925 – 27 April 2007) was a far-right Belgian politician and Flemish nationalist. Life According to Paul Beliën, editor of the Brussels Journal, "Dillen came from a non-political background. H ...

, style="text-align: left;" , Dutch-speaking , 241,117 , , 4.09 , , , , 6.59 , , 1 , , 1 , - , style="background-color:#CD006F;" , , style="text-align: left;" ,

Democratic Front of Francophones Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...

(FDF) , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" , , style="text-align: left;" , French-speaking , 85,867 , , 1.46 , , , , 3.83 , , 0 , , 0 , - , , style="text-align: left;" colspan=4, Others (parties or candidates that won less than 1% of the ''national'' vote and no seats) , , , , , — , , — , , 0 , , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Valid votes , 5,899,300 , 91.62 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Blank and invalid votes , 539,438 , 8.38 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Totals , 6,438,738 , 100.00 , — , — , 24 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="5" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 7,096,273 , 90.73 , 1.36 , colspan="3" ,

Dutch-speaking electoral college

*All parties with more than 50,000 votes are listed.

French-speaking electoral college

*All parties with more than 50,000 votes are listed. {{Belgian elections

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