The
2014 European Parliament election
The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014.
It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...
in Belgium is an election held on 25 May 2014 in the three Belgian constituencies: the
Dutch-speaking electoral college
The Dutch-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It currently elects 12 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Previously it elected 13 MEPS, until the ...
, 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 ...
. This election was held on the same day alongside the
Belgian federal election and the
Belgian regional elections.
21 Belgium MEPs were elected: 12 of them are Dutch-speaking, 8 of them are French-speaking and 1 of them is German-speaking. In the
arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and 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 additi ...
, voters can choose whether to vote for the Dutch-speaking or for the French-speaking electoral college.
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).
...
(N-VA)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
EFA
EFA may refer to: England Football Association
Arts
* European Film Academy, a trade organisation
* European Film Awards, organized by the European Film Academy
* European Festivals Association, an arts festival organisation
Commerce
* Electri ...
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Johan Van Overtveldt
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 1,123,355
, 16.79
, 10.66
, 26.67
,
, 3
, - 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 = P ...
(OPEN VLD)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
ELDR
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Guy Verhofstadt
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 859,099
, 12.84
, 0.09
, 20.40
,
, 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;" ,
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 ...
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 840,783
, 12.57
, 1.86
, 19.96
,
, 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 t ...
(PS)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
PES
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Marie Arena
Marie Arena (born 17 December 1966) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
Career in national politics ...
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 714,645
, 10.68
, 0.20
, 29.29
,
, 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 ...
(MR)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
ELDR
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Louis Michel
Louis Michel (born 2 September 1947) is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. From 20 ...
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 661,332
, 9.88
, 0.14
, 27.10
,
, 1
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Socialist Party Different
Vooruit (Dutch language, Dutch for Forward, ) is a Flanders, Flemish Social democracy, social democratic list of political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. The party was known as the Flemish Socialist Party (1978–2001: ''Socialis ...
(SP.A)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
PES
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Kathleen Van Brempt
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 555,348
, 8.30
, 0.09
, 13.18
,
, 1
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Groen
Groen or de Groen is a surname of Dutch origin, meaning ''green''. (GROEN)
, style="text-align:left;" ,
EGP
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Bart Staes
Bart Hubert Wilfried Marcel Staes (; born 7 August 1958), is a Belgian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Flanders from 1999 until 2019. He is a member of Groen, part of the European Greens.
After studying in Brus ...
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 447,391
, 6.69
, 1.78
, 10.62
,
, 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 ...
(ECOLO)
, 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 ...
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 285,196
, 4.26
, 4.29
, 11.69
,
, 1
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Vlaams Belang
, 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;" , None
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Gerolf Annemans
, style="text-align:left;" , Dutch-speaking
, 284,856
, 4.26
, 5.59
, 6.76
,
, 1
, - 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
, 277,246
, 4.14
, 0.84
, 11.36
,
, 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
, 11,710
, 0.18
, 0.01
, 30.34
,
, 0
, - style="text-align:right;border-top:2px solid gray;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Workers' Party (PTB–GO!/PVDA+)
, style="text-align:left;" , None
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Tim Joye Aurélie Decoene
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Dutch-speaking
French-speaking
,
101,237
133,811
, 3.51
1.51
2.00
, 2.46
0.90
1.57
, N/A
2.40
5.48
,
, 0
0
0
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
People's Party (PP)
, style="text-align:left;" , None
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Luc Trullemans
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 145,909
, 2.18
, ''new''
, 5.98
,
, 0
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF)
, style="text-align:left;" , None
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Cristina Coteanu
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 82,540
, 1.23
, ''new''
, 3.38
,
, 0
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Belgians, Rise up! (DLB)
, style="text-align:left;" , None
, style="text-align:left;" ,
Abdesselam Laghmich
, style="text-align:left;" , French-speaking
, 72,671
, 1.09
, ''new''
, 2.98
,
, 0
, - style="text-align:right;"
, style="background-color: " width=5px,
, style="text-align:left;" colspan="4", Others
(parties and candidates that won less than 1% of the vote and no seats)
,
,
, —
, —
,
, 0
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Valid votes
, 6,690,711
, 93.90
, colspan="4" rowspan="2" ,
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Blank and invalid votes
, 434,450
, 6.10
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, style="text-align:right;" colspan="5" , Totals
, 7,125,161
, 100.00
, —
, —
, 21
, 1
, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
, colspan="5" , Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout
, 7,948,854
, 90.00
, colspan="4" ,
, -
, style="text-align:left;" colspan="11" ,
Source
Federal Public Services Home Affairs
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Opinion polling
Opinion polling for the Dutch electoral college
Candidates
*
Full list of candidates
Main candidates
References
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