2019 Belgian Regional Elections
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The 2019 Belgian regional elections took place on Sunday 26 May, the same day as 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 ...
as well as the Belgian federal election. In the regional elections, new representatives were chosen for the
Flemish Parliament The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , formerly called Flemish Council or ''Vlaamse Raad'') constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural communi ...
,
Walloon Parliament The Parliament of Wallonia (french: Parlement de Wallonie) (Walloon Parliament (french: Parlement wallon) in the decrees) is the legislative body of Wallonia, one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and t ...
,
Brussels Parliament The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) ( French: ''Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale'', Dutch: ''Parlement van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gew ...
and the
Parliament of the German-speaking Community The Parliament of the German-speaking Community (german: Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft or PDG) is the legislative assembly of the German-speaking Community of Belgium located in Eupen. The most important tasks of the Parliament of ...
. The
Parliament of the French Community The Parliament of the French Community (french: Parlement de la Communauté française or PCF) is the legislative assembly of the French Community of Belgium based in the Quartier Royal. It consists of all 75 members of the Walloon Parliament exce ...
was composed of all elected members of the
Walloon Parliament The Parliament of Wallonia (french: Parlement de Wallonie) (Walloon Parliament (french: Parlement wallon) in the decrees) is the legislative body of Wallonia, one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and t ...
(except German-speaking members) and 19 of the French-speaking members of the Brussels Parliament. The elections followed the
2014 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2014. * 2014 United Nations Security Council election 16 October 2014 Africa * 2014 Algerian presidential election 17 April 2014 * 2014 Botswana general election 24 October 2014 * 2014 Comorian presi ...
and were shortly after the 2018 local elections, which indicated voters' tendencies after an unusually long period of time without any elections in Belgium.


Electoral system

The regional parliaments have limited power over their own election; federal law largely regulates this and the federal government organises the elections, which occur per Article 117 of the
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on the same day as the
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. As such, all regional parliaments were elected using proportional representation under 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- ...
. Only Belgian citizens in Belgium had the right to vote, and voting was mandatory for them. Belgians living abroad were allowed to vote in European and federal elections, but not in regional elections. The following timetable is fixed for the simultaneous European, federal and regional elections:


Flemish Parliament

124 members of the
Flemish Parliament The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , formerly called Flemish Council or ''Vlaamse Raad'') constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural communi ...
were elected. The five Flemish provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders, Antwerp, Flemish Brabant and Limburg) each were a constituency, plus the Brussels-Capital Region where those voting for a Dutch-language party could also vote in the Flemish election. The incumbent
Bourgeois Government The Bourgeois Government (''Regering-Bourgeois'') was the Flemish Government formed following the 2014 Flemish Parliament election. The cabinet consisted of a centre-right coalition of the nationalist New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), the Christian D ...
was made up of a coalition of Flemish nationalists (N-VA), Christian democrats (CD&V) and liberals (Open Vld). The incumbent
Minister-President A minister-president or minister president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments with a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government where they preside over the council of ministers. It ...
was
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 ...
(N-VA). The three-party centre-right government coalition had a comfortable majority. In the October 2018 local elections, no major shifts occurred, although N-VA and sp.a lost some support while Vlaams Belang and Groen generally gained votes. CD&V and Open Vld remained stable. Incumbent Minister-President Bourgois (N-VA) contended in the simultaneous European Parliament elections; N-VA president
Bart De Wever Bart Albert Liliane De Wever ( born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician. Since 2004 De Wever has been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating for the independence of Flanders. He is also a member of the ...
(N-VA) was their party's candidate to succeed him as head of the Flemish Government. Minister
Hilde Crevits Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits (born 28 June 1967, in Torhout) is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party who is currently the Flemish minister of Economy, Innovation, Work, Social economy and Ag ...
was CD&V's candidate for Minister-President. Open Vld explicitly did not put forward a candidate.


Main candidates

The following candidates are the first on the respective party list (''lijsttrekker'') per constituency.


Retiring incumbents

* Minister
Jo Vandeurzen Johan Maria Gerardus Vandeurzen (born 2 June 1958) is a Belgian politician, member of ''Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams'' (CD&V), a centrist Flemish Christian Democratic party. Vandeurzen holds a Master of Laws degree from the Catholic Univers ...
(CD&V, Limburg) *Rob Beenders (sp.a, Limburg) * Yamila Idrissi (sp.a, Brussels) *Grete Remen (N-VA, Limburg) *
Johan Verstreken Johan Laurent Alfons Verstreken (born 11 June 1964 in Ostend) is a Flemish politician, who has served as a member of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, CD&V party since 2004. He started his career back in 1989 as a TV presenter and announcer for th ...
(CD&V, West Flanders)


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;" , Leader(s) ! 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;" , 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;" ,
Bart De Wever Bart Albert Liliane De Wever ( born 21 December 1970) is a Belgian politician. Since 2004 De Wever has been the leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a political party advocating for the independence of Flanders. He is also a member of the ...
, 1,052,252 , 24.83 , 7.06 , , 8 , - 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;" ,
Tom Van Grieken Tom Jozef Irène Van Grieken (born 7 October 1986) is a Belgian politician and author who has served as leader of Vlaams Belang since October 2014. Early life Van Grieken was born in Antwerp and later moved to Mortsel where he served as a muni ...
, 783,977 , 18.50 , 12.58 , , 17 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Wouter Beke Wouter Beke (born 9 August 1974) is a Belgium, Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of R ...
, 652,766 , 15.40 , 5.08 , , 8 , - 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;" ,
Gwendolyn Rutten Gwendolyn Angeline Albert Maria Rutten (born 26 June 1975) is a Belgian politician. She was the chairwoman of the Flemish liberal party until March 22, 2020. On 11 January 2017 she resigned from the Flemish Parliament in order to prepare her part ...
, 556,630 , 13.13 , 1.01 , , 3 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party Differently (sp.a) , style="text-align:left;" ,
John Crombez John Crombez (born 19 September 1973) is a Belgian politician. He has been leader of the Socialist Party Differently (sp.a) since 2015. In the Di Rupo Government (2011–2014) he was Secretary of State for combatting fraud. In 2009, Crombez wa ...
, 438,589 , 10.35 , 3.64 , , 5 , - 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;" , Meyrem Almaci , 428,696 , 10.11 , 1.41 , , 4 , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" , Peter Mertens , 225,593 , 5.32 , 2.80 , , 4 , - style="text-align:right;border-top:2px solid gray;" , 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;" , Constance Villalon , 36,944 , 0.87 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: turquoise" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Union of Francophones (UF) , style="text-align:left;" , Collective leadership , 28,804 , 0.68 , 0.15 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: purple" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,
Pirate Party Pirate Party is a label adopted by Political party, political parties around the world. Pirate parties support Civil and political rights, civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively Participatory democracy, partici ...
, style="text-align:left;" , , 9,148 , 0.22 , 0.40 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , PRO , style="text-align:left;" , , 5,685 , 0.13 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , D-SA , style="text-align:left;" , , 4,569 , 0.11 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Be.One , style="text-align:left;" , , 4,064 , 0.10 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , PV&S , style="text-align:left;" , , 2,813 , 0.07 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Genoeg vr iedereen , style="text-align:left;" , , 2,650 , 0.06 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Burgerlijst , style="text-align:left;" , , 2,033 , 0.05 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , RP , style="text-align:left;" , , 1,659 , 0.04 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , De Coöperatie , style="text-align:left;" , , 1,402 , 0.03 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Valid votes , 4,238,274 , 95.05 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Blank and invalid votes , 220,790 , 4.95 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Totals , 4,459,064 , 100.00 , — , 124 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="3" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 4,838,566 , 92.16 , colspan="3" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
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Distribution by province


Walloon Parliament

75 members of the
Walloon Parliament The Parliament of Wallonia (french: Parlement de Wallonie) (Walloon Parliament (french: Parlement wallon) in the decrees) is the legislative body of Wallonia, one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and t ...
were elected. The members were elected in multi-member
arrondissement An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands. Europe France The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements' ...
-based constituencies; the Walloon Parliament is the only parliament in Belgium still using this geographical level for constituencies. A January 2018 law however reduced the constituencies from 13 to 11, following a successful challenge by
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 ...
to the
Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ...
that constituencies with too few seats are unrepresentative. Both Luxembourg constituencies were merged and the Hainaut constituencies were redrawn. After the 2014 elections, a coalition government of the
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) and
Christian democrats __NOTOC__ Christian democratic parties are political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social ...
(cdH) was formed. In 2017 however, following major scandals involving mainly PS, cdH opted to continue governing with MR as the main party instead of PS. Willy Borsus (MR) succeeded
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 ...
(PS) as
Minister-President of Wallonia The minister-president of Wallonia () is the head of the Government of Wallonia, the executive power of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. The official residence, known as the Élysette, is in Namur, along the Meuse River. The ministe ...
in July 2017. This was the first time a government majority changed during a legislative term of a Belgian regional government.


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;" , Leader(s) ! 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;" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/– , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Elio Di Rupo Elio Di Rupo (; born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian politician who has served as the minister-president of Wallonia since 2019. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party (Belgium), Socialist Party. Di Rupo previously served as the prime minister of ...
, 532,422 , 26.17 , 4.73 , , 7 , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Charles Michel Charles Michel (; born 21 December 1975) is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of Developm ...
, 435,878 , 21.42 , 5.26 , , 5 , - 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;" ,
Jean-Marc Nollet Jean-Marc is a French masculine given name. It may refer to: * Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco (born 1963), Beninese former football player * Jean-Marc Ayrault (born 1950), French politician * Jean-Marc Barr (born 1960), French-American film actor and dir ...

Zakia Khattabi Zakia Khattabi (Arabic: ; born 15 January 1976) is a Belgian-Moroccan politician who was the co-president of the Ecolo party. Khattabi was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Brussels to Moroccan parents. She studied at Université libre de Bruxe ...
, 294,631 , 14.48 , 5.86 , , 8 , - 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 ...
(PTB) , style="text-align:left;" , Peter Mertens , 278,343 , 13.68 , 7.92 , , 8 , - 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;" ,
Maxime Prévot Maxime Prévot (; born April 9, 1978) is a Belgian politician who is currently the president of the Les Engagés (political party), Les Engagés party and has served as the Mayor of Namur since 2012. Biography Prévot was born in Mons in 1978 to ...
, 223,775 , 11.00 , 4.17 , , 3 , - 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;" ,
Olivier Maingain Olivier D. A. Gh. Maingain (born 3 August 1958) is a Belgian francophone politician and former president of DéFI. Biography After graduating as Master of Laws he qualified as a lawyer in 1982. In 1983 he became president of the FDF Youth. He wa ...
, 84,219 , 4.14 , 1.61 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , People's Party (PP) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Mischaël Modrikamen Mischaël Modrikamen (born 22 February 1966) is a Belgians, Belgian right wing politician and lawyer. He is the co-founder and leader of the People's Party (Belgium), People's Party. He is the vice-president of the Alliance for Direct Democracy in ...
, 74,622 , 3.67 , 1.20 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Listes Destexhe , style="text-align:left;" ,
Alain Destexhe Alain Destexhe (born 19 June 1958) is a Belgian politician. He was a senator from 1995 to 2011, and remained a member of the Brussels Regional Parliament until 2019. Destexhe was a member of the liberal Mouvement Réformateur (MR) and repre ...
, 30,878 , 1.52 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Collectif Citoyen , style="text-align:left;" , , 26,673 , 1.31 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: black" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,
Nation A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those ...
, style="text-align:left;" , Hervé Van Laethem , 9,649 , 0.47 , 0.06 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Wallonie Insoumise , style="text-align:left;" , , 8,155 , 0.40 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Agir , style="text-align:left;" , , 7,146 , 0.35 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , La Droite , style="text-align:left;" , , 3,407 , 0.17 , 1.22 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: red" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,
Communist Party of Belgium french: Parti Communiste de Belgique , abbreviation = KPB-PCB , colorcode = , leader1_title = Historical leaders , leader1_name = Joseph JacquemotteJulien LahautLouis Van Geyt , founder = Julien Lahaut , founded = , dissolved = , merge ...
(PCB) , style="text-align:left;" , , 944 , 0.05 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Référendum , style="text-align:left;" , , 621 , 0.03 , 0.06 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: turquoise" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Turquoise , style="text-align:left;" , , 590 , 0.03 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Valid votes , 2,220,443 , 91.64 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Blank and invalid votes , 185,630 , 8.36 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Totals , 2,406,073 , 100.00 , — , 75 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="3" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 2,563,033 , 93.88 , colspan="3" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
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Distribution by province


Brussels Parliament

All 89 members of the
Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) ( French: ''Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale'', Dutch: ''Parlement van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gew ...
were elected. They were elected
at-large At large (''before a noun'': at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than ...
, but there were separate Dutch-language party lists (electing 17 members) and French-language party lists (electing 72 members). Those voting for a Dutch-language party could also cast a vote for the Flemish Parliament election.


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;" , Lead candidate ! 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;" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/– , - style="text-align:center;" , style="background-color:#E9E9E9"; colspan="11" , French language group , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Rudi Vervoort Rudi Vervoort (born 20 November 1958) is a Brussels politician. He is the mayor of Evere since 1998 and member of the Brussels Parliament. He became the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region on 7 May 2013 and is responsible for Local ...
, 85,530 , 22.03 , 4.56 , , 4 , - 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;" ,
Alain Maron Alain may refer to: People * Alain (given name), common given name, including list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Alain (surname) * "Alain", a pseudonym for cartoonist Daniel Brustlein * Alain, a standard author abbreviation u ...
, 74,246 , 19.12 , 9.01 , , 7 , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Françoise Schepmans Françoise Schepmans (born 18 June 1960, Sint-Agatha-Berchem) is a Belgian politician for the Mouvement Réformateur, a French-speaking liberal party in Belgium. She has been a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parlia ...
, 65,502 , 16.87 , 6.17 , , 5 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic, Federalist, Independent (DéFI) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Bernard Clerfayt Bernard Clerfayt (born 30 December 1961, in Uccle) is a Belgians, Belgian politician. He has been the mayor of Schaerbeek since 2001 and is currently vice-president of the Democratic Front of Francophones, Front Démocratique des Francophones (FDF ...
, 53,638 , 13.81 , 0.99 , , 2 , - 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 ...
(PTB) , style="text-align:left;" , Françoise De Smedt , 52,297 , 13.47 , 9.61 , , 6 , - 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;" , Céline Fremault , 29,436 , 7.58 , 4.16 , , 3 , - 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;" , Victoria Austraet , 5,113 , 1.32 , ''New'' , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;border-top:2px solid gray;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Listes Destexhe , style="text-align:left;" ,
Claude Moniquet Claude Moniquet (born 3 March 1958 in Brussels, Belgium) is a retired French journalist (working mainly with ''L'Express'' and ''Quotidien de Paris'') and a former intelligence agent at the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), ...
, 10,052 , 2.59 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , People's Party (PP) , style="text-align:left;" , Nicola Tournay , 6,605 , 1.70 , 0.24 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Collectif Citoyen , style="text-align:left;" , Raouf Ben Ammar , 2,029 , 0.52 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , act-SALEM , style="text-align:left;" , Michel Dardenne , 1,496 , 0.39 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Plan B , style="text-align:left;" , Annick Letecheur , 1,115 , 0.29 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Hé , style="text-align:left;" , Isabelle Praile , 697 , 0.18 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , be@eu , style="text-align:left;" ,
Philippe Lateur Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count ...
, 522 , 0.13 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="text-align:center;" , style="background-color:#E9E9E9"; colspan="11" , Dutch language group , - 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;" , Elke Van den Brandt , 14,425 , 20.61 , 2.72 , , 1 , - 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;" ,
Cieltje Van Achter Cieltje Van Achter (born 1979) is a Belgian lawyer and politician and a member of the New Flemish Alliance party. Van Achter is the daughter-in-law of former N-VA leader Geert Bourgeois. She studied law at the KU Leuven and the Université René D ...
, 12,578 , 17.97 , 0.97 , , 0 , - 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;" , Guy Vanhengel , 11,051 , 15.79 , 10.91 , , 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party Differently (sp.a) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Pascal Smet Pascal Smet (born 30 July 1967) is a Belgian politician, member of Vooruit. Personal life He was born in 1967 in Beveren-Waas. He earned a degree in Law at the University of Antwerp. He is openly gay. Career He was a member of the town counc ...
, 10,540 , 15.06 , 4.51 , , 0 , - 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;" , Dominiek Lootens-Stael , 5,838 , 8.34 , 2.74 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V) , style="text-align:left;" , Bianca Debaets , 5,231 , 7.47 , 3.96 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,
Agora The agora (; grc, ἀγορά, romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It is the best representation of a city-state's response to accommodate the social and political order of t ...
, style="text-align:left;" , Pepijn Kennis , 3,629 , 5.18 , ''New'' , , 1 , - 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) , style="text-align:left;" , Jan Busselen , 2,992 , 4.27 , ''New'' , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;border-top:2px solid gray;" , style="background-color: #FFFFFF" width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Be.One , style="text-align:left;" ,
Dyab Abou Jahjah Dyab Abou Jahjah ( ar, دياب أبو جهجه, born 24 June 1971 in Hanin, Lebanon) is an Arab political activist and writer who was active in Europe between 2001 and 2007. He is the founder and former leader of the Arab European League (AEL) ...
, 3,021 , 4.32 , ''New'' , , 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;" , Catherine Khalil , 691 , 0.99 , ''New'' , , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Valid votes , 458,274 , 93.35 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Blank and invalid votes , 32,643 , 6.65 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Totals , 490,917 , 100.00 , — , 89 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="3" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 588,203 , 83.46 , colspan="3" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
Federal Public Services Home Affairs
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German-speaking Community Parliament

All 25 members of the
Parliament of the German-speaking Community The Parliament of the German-speaking Community (german: Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft or PDG) is the legislative assembly of the German-speaking Community of Belgium located in Eupen. The most important tasks of the Parliament of ...
were elected in one constituency (
at-large At large (''before a noun'': at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than ...
). In the 2014–2019 period, the government was made up of regionalist ProDG, the socialist party and the liberal PFF, headed by Minister-President
Oliver Paasch Oliver Paasch (; Malmedy, 21 October 1971) is a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft party and the incumbent Minister-president of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Between 2004 and 2014 he held ...
(ProDG).


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;" , Leader(s) ! 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;" , Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9; width:50;" , +/– , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Pro German Speaking Community (ProDG) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Oliver Paasch Oliver Paasch (; Malmedy, 21 October 1971) is a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft party and the incumbent Minister-president of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Between 2004 and 2014 he held ...
, 9,146 , 23.33 , 1.13 , , 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Social Party (CSP) , style="text-align:left;" , Colin Kraft , 9,069 , 23.14 , 1.72 , , 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 ...
(SP) , style="text-align:left;" , Antonio Antoniadis , 5,820 , 14.85 , 1.23 , , 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;" ,
Michael Balter Michael Balter is an American science journalist. His writings primarily cover anthropology, archaeology, mental health and sexual harassment in science. Balter was a correspondent for ''Science'' magazine for over 25 years, before being controve ...
, 5,807 , 14.81 , 4.20 , , 1 , - 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;" , Freddy Mockel , 4,902 , 12.51 , 2.96 , , 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , style="background-color: " width=5px, , style="text-align:left;" ,
Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt The Party for Freedom and Progress (german: Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt, PFF) is a regional liberal political party in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The party still retains the German version of the name of the all-Belgian lib ...
(PFF) , style="text-align:left;" ,
Isabelle Weykmans Isabelle Weykmans (born 3 December 1979) is a Belgian politician of the Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt (PFF). She has been Minister in the Government of the German-speaking Community since 2004 and is currently responsible for the areas o ...
, 4,454 , 11.36 , 4.18 , , 1 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Valid votes , 39,198 , 92.22 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Blank and invalid votes , 3,305 , 7.78 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="3" , Totals , 42,503 , 100.00 , — , 25 , 0 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="3" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout , 49,441 , 85.97 , colspan="3" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" , Source
Federal Public Services Home Affairs
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Distribution by district


References


External links


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