General elections were held in

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on 24 May 1936. The result was a victory for the

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, which won 70 of the 202 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 39 of the 101 seats in the

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. Voter turnout was 94.7%. Despite the rise of far-right and far-left parties,

Paul van Zeeland Paul Guillaume, Viscount van Zeeland (11 November 1893 – 22 September 1973) was a Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 1935 to 1937. Biography van Zeeland was born in Soi ...

continued as Prime Minister leading a government of national unity, composed of the three major parties (Catholics, Socialists and Liberals).

Results

Chamber of Representatives

Senate

Constituencies

The distribution of seats among the electoral districts of the Chamber of Representatives was as follows.List of members of the Chamber of Representatives (1936)
/ref> Several arrondissements got one or more additional seats. Roeselare-Tielt lost one seat, which was a rare occurrence since population generally increased throughout the Belgian territory with each census.

References

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