The

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...

in Belgium was held on 26 May 2019 in the three Belgian constituencies: the

Dutch-speaking electoral college The Dutch-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Counci ...

, the

French-speaking electoral college The French-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It currently elects 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. It elected 9 MEPs until the 2007 accessio ...

and the

German-speaking electoral college The German-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It elects one MEP and is the only constituency to make use of first past the post. This is the European Parliament's smallest constitue ...

. A royal order of 15 June 2018 fixed the date of the European Parliament election in Belgium, following an agreement at European level. Per the Belgian Constitution, the Belgian regional elections, and additionally the Belgian federal election because no snap election occurred, were automatically held on the same day.

Marianne Thyssen Marianne Leonie Petrus Thyssen (; born 24 July 1956) is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party (CD&V) who served as European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility between 2014 and 2019 ...

, who was re-elected Member of the European Parliament in 2014 as ''

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'' for CD&V and who subsequently became

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, announced in July 2018 that she would quit politics in 2019.

Electoral system

As the reapportionment after Brexit did not impact the number of seats allocated to Belgium, 21 MEPs were elected in Belgium, as in the 2014 election. One of them is by law allocated to the German-speaking electoral college and the remaining ones are allocated to the Dutch-speaking and to the French-speaking electoral college in accordance with a population formula, giving them respectively twelve and eight seats, as in 2014.30 JULI 2018. - Koninklijk besluit tot vaststelling van het aantal zetels dat toegekend wordt aan het Nederlandse kiescollege en het Franse kiescollege voor de verkiezing van het Europees Parlement
/ref> Voters could only vote on the lists depending on the language area they live in. This means that in the bilingual

arrondissement of Brussels-Capital The Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital ( nl, Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad; french: Arrondissement de Bruxelles-Capitale; german: Verwaltungsbezirk Brüssel-Hauptstadt) is the only administrative arrondissement in the Brussels Capital Region ...

, voters could choose whether to vote for the Dutch-speaking or for the French-speaking electoral college. There was an exception to this rule for the six

municipalities with language facilities There are 27 municipalities with language facilities ( nl, faciliteitengemeenten; french: communes à facilités; german: Fazilitäten-Gemeinden) in Belgium which must offer linguistic services to residents in Dutch, French, or German in additio ...

in the

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, whose inhabitants could also opt to vote for French-speaking lists despite being in the Dutch language area. Seats were allocated according to the

D'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is a method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in party-list proportional representation systems. It belongs to the class of highest- ...

in each of the three electoral colleges; however, the German-speaking electoral college de facto used a

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, since it elected only one MEP. The

electoral threshold The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ...

was 5%, which was based on the vote share per electoral college rather than nationally. All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over and residing in Belgium were obligated to participate in the election. Other EU citizens residing in Belgium as well as Belgians living in another EU member state had the right to vote on Belgian lists in European Parliament elections. The law of 17 November 2016 extended this right to Belgians living in a non-EU member state, which was already possible for federal elections.

Results

, style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" , , - style="text-align:right;" ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:400; text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , European party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , Main candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" , Electoral college ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/– ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , E.c. % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/– , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

New Flemish Alliance The New Flemish Alliance ( nl, Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist and conservative political party in Belgium. The party was founded in 2001 by the right-leaning fraction of the centrist-nationalist People's Union (VU). T ...

(N-VA) , style="text-align:left;" , ECR , style="text-align:left;" ,

Geert Bourgeois Geert Albert Bourgeois (; born 6 July 1951) is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), which he founded in 2001, who is currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He previously served as the Minister-Pr ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 954,048 , 14.17 , 2.62 , 22.44 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Flemish Interest , ideology = , predecessor = Vlaams Blok , position = , europarl = Identity and Democracy , european = Identity and Democracy Party , youth_wing = Vlaams Belang Jongeren , colours = , ...

(VB) , style="text-align:left;" , EAPN , style="text-align:left;" , Gerolf Annemans , style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 811,169 , 12.05 , 7.79 , 19.08 , , 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats french: Libéraux et démocrates flamands ouverts , abbreviation = Open Vld , logo = , leader1_title = President , leader1_name = Egbert Lachaert , foundation = 1992 (VLD)2007 (Open Vld) , predecessor = Pa ...

(Open VLD) , style="text-align:left;" , ALDE , style="text-align:left;" ,

Guy Verhofstadt Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (; ; born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician who was the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 2009 to 2019, and has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 678,051 , 10.07 , 2.77 , 15.95 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , 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-SP)

, style="text-align:left;" , PES

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Paul Magnette Paul Magnette (born 28 June 1971) is a Belgian politician for the Socialist Party, the current mayor of Charleroi and former political science professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He was the 13th Minister-President of Wallonia ...

Matthias Zimmermann , style="text-align:left;" ,
French-speaking
German-speaking , 655,812
651,157
4,655 , 9.74
9.67
0.07 , 1.03
1.01
0.02 ,
26.69
11.42 ,

, 1
1
0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V) , style="text-align:left;" , EPP , style="text-align:left;" ,

Kris Peeters Kris Peeters (; born 18 May 1962) is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish who has been serving as vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) since 2021. Earlier in his career, he was Minister-President of Flander ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 617,651 , 9.17 , 3.39 , 14.53 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Workers' Party of Belgium The Workers' Party of Belgium (french: Parti du Travail de Belgique, PTB; nl, Partij van de Arbeid van België, PVDA; ) is a Marxism, Marxist and Socialism, socialist political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. It is one of the few ...

(PVDA-PTB)

, style="text-align:left;" , GUE/NGL

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Marc Botenga Marc Botenga (born 29 December 1980) is a Belgian politician of the Workers' Party of Belgium ''(PVDA-PTB)''. In 2019, he was elected as member of the Ninth European Parliament as part of The Left in the European Parliament party group. Boteng ...

Line De Witte , style="text-align:left;" ,
French-speaking
Dutch-speaking , 566,274
355,883
210,391 , 8.42
5.29
3.13 , 4.91
3.29
1.62 ,
14.59
4.95 ,

, 1
1
0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 Nanometre, nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by ...

(Groen) , style="text-align:left;" , EGP , style="text-align:left;" , Petra De Sutter , style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 525,908 , 7.81 , 1.13 , 12.37 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Ecolo Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales'', (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles)'' is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The ...

, style="text-align:left;" , EGP

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Philippe Lamberts Philippe Lamberts (born 14 March 1963) is a Belgian politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. He is a member of Ecolo, within the Greens–European Free Alliance. Education and early career Lamberts graduated as ...

Shqiprim Thaqi , style="text-align:left;" ,
French-speaking
German-speaking , 492,330
485,655
6,675 , 7.31
7.21
0.10 , 2.95
2.95
0.00 ,
19.91
16.37 ,

, 1
1
0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Reformist Movement The Reformist Movement (french: Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party, but it also contains social-liberal factions. The party is in coalition as pa ...

(MR)

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 ...

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

, style="text-align:left;" ,

Olivier Chastel Olivier Chastel (born 22 November 1964, in Liège) is a Belgian pharmacist and politician of the Liberal Party "Mouvement Réformateur" (MR) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Early life and education After ...

Yves Derwahl , style="text-align:left;" ,
French-speaking
German-speaking , 475,338
470,654
4,684 , 7.06
6.99
0.07 , 2.92
2.90
0.02 ,
19.29
11.49 ,

, 1
1
0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party Differently (sp.a) , style="text-align:left;" , PES , style="text-align:left;" , Kathleen Van Brempt , style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 434,002 , 6.45 , 1.85 , 10.21 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Humanist Democratic Centre Humanist Democratic Centre (french: Centre Démocrate Humaniste, CDH) was a Christian democratic and centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) w ...

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

Claude Rolin Claude Rolin (born 26 May 1957 in Charleroi) is a Belgian politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014, representing the Belgian French-speaking electoral college. He is a member of the Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH) ...

, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking , 218,078 , 3.24 , 0.90 , 8.94 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Social Party (CSP) , style="text-align:left;" , EPP , style="text-align:left;" , Pascal Arimont , style="text-align:left;" , German-speaking , 14,247 , 0.21 , 0.03 , 34.94 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;border-top:2px solid gray;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic, Federalist, Independent (DéFI) , style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" , Benoît Cassart , style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking , 144,555 , 2.15 , 0.91 , 5.92 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , People's Party (PP) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Movement Movement may refer to: Common uses * Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece * Motion, commonly referred to as movement Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...

, style="text-align:left;" , Yasmine Dehaene , style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking , 113,793 , 1.69 , 0.49 , 4.66 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Volt Europa Volt Europa (frequently abbreviated as Volt) is a pro-European and European federalist political movement that also serves as the pan-European structure for subsidiary parties in several EU member states. Volt candidates stood on a common, pan- ...

(Volt) , style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" , Christophe Calis , style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking , 20,385 , 0.30 , ''New'' , 0.48 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Pro German Speaking Community (ProDG) , style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" , Lydia Klinkenberg , style="text-align:left;" , German-speaking , 5,360 , 0.08 , 0.00 , 13.14 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

Vivant Vivant is a small social-liberal political party in Belgium founded by millionaire Roland Duchâtelet. In the regional elections in June 2004, the party formed a strategic alliance with the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD). Both parties are ...

, style="text-align:left;" , None , style="text-align:left;" , Alain Mertes , style="text-align:left;" , German-speaking , 4,550 , 0.07 , 0.02 , 11.16 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,

DierAnimal DierAnimal (from the Flemish and French words for "animal") is an animal welfare political party in Belgium. The party seeks to create a society where all living things are respected equally regardless of skin color, gender, age or species. It su ...

, style="text-align:left;" , APEU , style="text-align:left;" , Reiner Barczinski , style="text-align:left;" , German-speaking , 606 , 0.01 , ''New'' , 1.49 , , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Valid votes , 6,732,157 , 93.68 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Blank and invalid votes , 454,520 , 6.32 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Totals , 7,186,677 , 100.00 , — , — , 21 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="5" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 8,122,985 , 88.47 , colspan="4" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
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Elected members

Groups

''From 2019 European Parliament election#Groups''

Outgoing delegation

External links

Elections 2019
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References

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