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2014 Belgian federal election

Federal elections were held in Belgium on 25 May 2014.[1] All 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected, whereas the Senate was no longer directly elected following the 2011–2012 state reform. These were the first elections held under King Philippe's reign.

2014 Belgian federal election

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All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout89.37%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
N-VA Bart De Wever 20.26% 33 +6
PS Elio Di Rupo 11.67% 23 −3
CD&V Wouter Beke 11.61% 18 +1
Open Vld Gwendolyn Rutten 9.78% 14 +1
MR Charles Michel 9.64% 20 +2
sp.a Bruno Tobback 8.83% 13 0
Groen Wouter Van Besien 5.32% 6 +1
cdH Benoît Lutgen 4.98% 9 0
PVDA-PTB Peter Mertens 3.72% 2 +2
VB Gerolf Annemans 3.67% 3 −9
Ecolo Olivier Deleuze
& Emily Hoyos
3.30% 6 −2
FDF Olivier Maingain 1.80% 2 New
PP Mischaël Modrikamen 1.50% 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by constituency

Date edit

As part of the state reform adopted 19 December 2013,[2] the date of election will from now on coincide with the European elections,[3] which the Council of the EU has scheduled for 22–25 May 2014.[4] The regional elections in Belgium already constitutionally coincide with the European elections, consequently Belgians will vote for three elections on the same day.

On 25 April 2014, a declaration to amend the Constitution was adopted, formally dissolving parliament and triggering new elections within 40 days.[5]

Electoral system edit

The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives are elected in 11 multi-member constituencies, being the ten provinces and Brussels, with between 4 and 24 seats. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5% per constituency.[6] Apportionment of seats is done every ten years, last by royal order of 31 January 2013, based on the population figures of 28 May 2012.

Representatives elected from the five Flemish Region provinces, Antwerp (24), East Flanders (20), Flemish Brabant (15), Limburg (12) and West Flanders (16), automatically belong to the Dutch-speaking language group in parliament, whereas those elected from the five provinces of Wallonia, Hainaut (18), Liège (15), Luxembourg (4), Namur (6) and Walloon Brabant (5), form the French-speaking language group. The 15 members elected in Brussels may choose to join either group, though de facto only French-speaking parties reach the threshold.

The 60-member Senate is composed of 50 representatives from the regional and community parliaments, plus 10 co-opted senators proportionally divided among parties based on the result of the federal election.

Voters edit

All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over are obligated to participate in the election. Foreigners residing in Belgium (regardless of EU citizenship) cannot vote, whereas Belgian citizens living abroad may register to vote. Following the sixth state reform, they can no longer freely choose in which constituency their vote counts; instead the municipality is objectively defined by statutory criteria. Since the previous elections were snap elections, there was more preparation time now, allowing for significantly increased use of the option compared to 2010.

The electoral roll was fixed per 1 March 2014.

2014 2010 difference
Eligible Belgians residing in Belgium 7,879,874 7,725,463 +154,411 (+2.00%)
Eligible Belgians residing abroad 128,902 42,089 +86,813 (+206.26%)
 - voted in-person or by proxy in a municipality in Belgium 20,241 9,741 +10,500 (+107.79%)
 - voted in-person or by proxy in the Belgian diplomatic or consular post where they registered 19,080 13,089 +5,991 (+45.77%)
 - voted by mail 89,581 19,259 +70,322 (+365.14%)
Total 8,008,776 7,767,552 +241,224 (+3.11%)

151 Flemish municipalities and 2 Brussels municipalities voted electronically; the remaining 157 Flemish and 17 Brussels and all 262 Walloon municipalities voted by paper ballot.

Timetable edit

25 February Start of the "waiting period" (sperperiode) running until the day of the election, during which political propaganda and expenses are strictly regulated
1 March The electoral roll is fixed by municipal authorities
25 April The Parliament adopts a declaration to amend the Constitution, formally dissolving parliament and triggering elections within 40 days[5]
10 May Final day for the official announcement of the election and the convocation letter to voters
21 May Polling day for Belgians residing abroad in the embassies and consular posts
25 May Polling day (from 8am until 2pm, or until 4pm where voting is done electronically)
19 June Constitutive session of the newly elected Chamber of Representatives

Background and reforms since last election edit

The previous 2010 election resulted in a victory for Flemish nationalist N-VA. The coalition formation stalemate went on for a record-breaking 541 days. Eventually, the negotiating parties agreed upon a sixth Belgian state reform and the Di Rupo Government was finally formed on 6 December 2011 and comprised PS, MR, CD&V, Open VLD, sp.a and cdH.

The state reform has the following consequences for the election in 2014:

  • The controversial electoral constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde no longer exists; rather, each province plus the federal capital now has its own constituency, and voter discrimination has been abolished.
  • The Senate will no longer be directly elected.
  • The term length will be increased from 4 years to 5 years, and the election will always coincide with the European Parliament election.[3]

Election campaign edit

The campaign topics largely focused on socio-economic reforms: job creation and unemployment, tax reform, pensions, ... This campaign also featured an unprecedented level of quantified programmes by political parties. For example, the N-VA released its "V plan" and CD&V its "3D plan".

One week before the election day, former CD&V Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene suddenly died while in France. Several debates were cancelled, and CD&V as well as all other Flemish parties suspended their campaign for a few days.[7]

Jewish Museum shooting edit

On 24 May, the day before the elections, a shooting occurred at the Belgian Jewish Museum in Brussels, with three people reported dead.[8] Self-described anti-Zionist MP Laurent Louis suggested that the attack could be a false flag operation seeking to discredit him and his political party (Debout les Belges, or "Stand Up, Belgians") on the eve of the elections.[9]

Political parties edit

 
The primary six Flemish political parties and their results for the House of Representatives (Kamer). From 1978 to 2014, in percentages for the complete 'Kingdom'.

Current situation edit

In 2010, ten parties won seats in the Belgian Senate: Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V), Centre Démocrate Humaniste (cdH), Socialistische Partij Anders (sp.a), Parti Socialiste (PS), Open Vld, Mouvement Réformateur (MR), Groen, Ecolo, New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) and Vlaams Belang. In the Chamber of Representatives, the People's Party (PP) and Libertarian, Direct, Democratic (LDD) each also won one seat.

During the legislation, the Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF) separated from the MR party and are now represented in the Chamber with 3 representatives, but have no Senators. The PP Member of Parliament left the party and became an independent. One Vlaams Belang member of the Chamber and one Vlaams Belang member of the Senate left their party and decided to become independents.

Thus, currently the ten major parties are represented in both the Chamber and the Senate; in addition, LDD and FDF are represented in the Chamber of Representatives.

However, most of the major parties only operate in the Dutch-speaking or in the French-speaking constituencies. Voters who live in the provinces of Antwerp, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Limburg or West Flanders can only vote for CD&V, Groen, N-VA, Open VLD, sp.a and Vlaams Belang, apart from the minor parties – except when a French-speaking party would present a list in one of these provinces, which has not happened except for a FDF and a PP list in Flemish Brabant. In the provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg, Namur and Walloon Brabant, voters can only vote for cdH, Ecolo, MR and PS, apart from the minor parties – except when a Dutch-speaking party would present a list in one of these provinces, which has not happened in this elections.

In the constituency of Liège, the German-speaking parties CSP, Ecolo, PFF and SP all form one list with their French-speaking counterparts; the name of these lists only mention the French-speaking party. Therefore, the CSP politicians are on the cdH list, the Ecolo ones on the Ecolo list, PFF on the MR list and SP on the PS list. The other German-speaking parties (ProDG and Vivant) do not present a list due to their marginal chance of getting a seat in Parliament.

In the constituency of Brussels-Capital, Ecolo and Groen formed one list under the name Ecolo.[10] CD&V, N-VA, Open Vld, sp.a and Vlaams Belang will each present a single list.

LDD only presented a list in West Flanders. FDF presented a list in all Walloon constituencies, in Brussels-Capital and in Flemish Brabant. PVDA-PTB presented a list in all eleven constituencies of Belgium, making it one of the few parties which are represented in the whole of Belgium.

Main candidates edit

The following candidates are the first on the respective party list (lijsttrekker / tête de liste) per constituency.

Dutch-speaking constituencies edit

Party   Antwerp   East Flanders   Flemish Brabant   Limburg   West Flanders   Brussels
Major parties
CD&V Servais Verherstraeten Pieter De Crem Koen Geens Wouter Beke Hendrik Bogaert Benjamin Dalle
Groen Meyrem Almaci Stefaan Van Hecke Anne Dedry Katrijn Conjaerts Wouter De Vriendt Annalisa Gadaleta
(3rd on ECOLO list)
N-VA Bart De Wever Siegfried Bracke Theo Francken Steven Vandeput Brecht Vermeulen Luc Demullier
Open Vld Annemie Turtelboom Alexander De Croo Maggie De Block Patrick Dewael Vincent Van Quickenborne Thomas Ryckalts
sp.a Monica De Coninck Karin Temmerman Hans Bonte Peter Van Velthoven Johan Vande Lanotte Maité Morren
Vlaams Belang Filip Dewinter Barbara Pas Philip Claeys Bert Schoofs Peter Logghe Hilde Roossens
Minor parties
LDD Jean-Marie Dedecker
PVDA+ Peter Mertens Tom De Meester Sander Vandecapelle Kim De Witte Filip Desmet Benjamin Pestieau
BUB Vincent Massaut Bic Verbiest Marie-Luce Lovinfosse Tonnie Brichard Mileen Verpoorten Hans Van de Cauter
Pirate Party Christophe Cop Jonas De Koning Jo Vols

French-speaking constituencies edit

Party   Hainaut   Liège   Luxembourg   Namur   Walloon Brabant   Brussels
Major parties
cdH Catherine Fonck Melchior Wathelet Benoît Lutgen Benoît Dispa Cédric du Monceau Francis Delpérée
Ecolo Jean-Marc Nollet Muriel Gerkens Cécile Thibaut Georges Gilkinet Marcel Cheron Zakia Khattabi
FDF Christophe Verbist Hugues Lannoy Serge Saintes Monique Felix Amaury Alexandre Olivier Maingain
MR Olivier Chastel Daniel Bacquelaine Dominique Tilmans Sabine Laruelle Charles Michel Didier Reynders
PS Elio Di Rupo Willy Demeyer Philippe Courard Jean-Marc Delizée André Flahaut Laurette Onkelinx
Minor parties
PTB Marco Van Hees Raoul Hedebouw Jonathan Taffarel Thierry Warmoes Liza Lebrun Benjamin Pestieau
PP Mischaël Modrikamen Aldo Carcaci Michel Renquin Nathalie Strubbe Michaël Debast Tatiana Hachimi
BUB Romuald Joly Nicolas Jacquemin Jo Conter Adrien Mertens Dimitri Parée Hans van de Cauter
Pirate Party Paul Bossu Paul Thunissen

Opinion polling edit

The results of the opinion polls are usually split into separate numbers for the three Belgian regions. Below, they are transposed to national figures.

Date(s)
conducted
Newspaper N-VA PS CD&V MR sp.a Open Vld VB CDH Ecolo Groen Others Lead
15 April 2014 La Libre Belgique 20.6% 10.2% 10.7% 8.4% 8.5% 8.7% 6.4% 3.7% 3.9% 4.9% 14.0% 9.9% over CD&V
11 October 2013 De Standaard 17.6% 12.0% 8.4% 8.7% 6.7% 6.3% 40.4% 5.6% over CD&V
6 September 2013 La Libre Belgique[11] 22.3% 10.8% 10.9% 8.8% 7.6% 7.5% 7.2% 4.7% 4.7% 4.4% 11.2% 11.4% over CD&V
1 September 2013 Le Soir 19.3% 11.3% 10.8% 8.7% 8.0% 8.9% 7.5% 4.5% 4.3% 4.0% 12.5% 8.0% over PS
16 June 2013 Le Soir[12] 22.0% 10.5% 9.9% 8.3% 8.7% 8.3% 5.9% 4.6% 4.7% 4.8% 12.1% 11.5% over PS
25 May 2013 La Libre Belgique[13] 20.6% 10.2% 10.0% 8.9% 8.9% 8.1% 8.1% 4.7% 5.4% 4.1% 11.0% 10.4% over PS
25 May 2013 De Standaard[14] 20.2% 10.9% 9.3% 6.4% 6.7% 6.0% 40.5% 9.3% over CD&V
24 March 2013 Le Soir[15] 21.2% 11.8% 10.5% 8.6% 8.6% 7.8% 6.6% 5.0% 4.4% 4.9% 10.7% 9.4% over PS
16 March 2013 Het Laatste Nieuws[16] 21.0% 9.4% 8.5% 7.5% 7.0% 5.2% 41.4% 11.6% over CD&V
22 February 2013 La Libre Belgique[17] 24.3% 10.8% 8.8% 9.0% 9.3% 6.2% 4.2% 4.6% 4.7% 5.4% 12.7% 13.5% over PS
14 October 2012 Provincial election 2012[18][19] 18.0% 11.7% 13.5% 10.2% 8.6% 9.2% 5.6% 6.2% 4.8% 5.3% 6.7% 4.5% over CD&V
14 September 2012 De Standaard[20] 22.6% 11.5% 9.0% 6.7% 5.9% 4.9% 39.4% 11.1% over CD&V
10 June 2010 Federal election 2010[21] 17.4% 13.7% 10.8% 9.3% 9.2% 8.6% 7.8% 5.5% 4.8% 4.4% 8.4% 3.7% over PS

Results edit

At the Flemish side, Vlaams Belang and LDD suffered major losses; their votes went to N-VA, which increased its position as largest party. CD&V, Open Vld and Groen gained slightly as well, while sp.a lost slightly.

At the French-speaking side, PS, cdH and Ecolo suffer losses while MR gained as well as newcomers PTB-GO! and FDF.

 
PartyVotes%+/–Seats+/–
New Flemish Alliance1,366,39720.26+2.8633+6
Parti Socialiste787,05811.67–2.0323–3
Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams783,04011.61+0.7618+1
Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten659,5719.78+1.1414+1
Mouvement Réformateur650,2609.64+0.3620+2
Socialistische Partij Anders595,4668.83–0.41130
Groen358,9475.32+0.946+1
Centre démocrate humaniste336,1844.98–0.5490
Vlaams Belang247,7383.67–4.093–9
Ecolo222,5243.30–1.506–2
Parti du Travail de Belgique-GO !132,9431.97New2New
Francophone Democratic Federalists121,3841.80New2New
Partij van de Arbeid+118,3331.75+0.9400
People's Party102,5811.52+0.2310
Debout Les Belges!58,0430.86New0New
Libertair, Direct, Democratisch28,4140.42–1.890–1
La Droite26,0350.39New0New
Pirate Party23,1690.34New0New
Faire place Nette15,4670.23New0New
ISLAM13,7190.20New0New
Belgian Union12,1030.18–0.1400
ROSSEM11,6800.17New0New
Wallonie d'Abord11,2210.17–0.3900
Nation10,2160.15New0New
Pirate9,8450.15New0New
Rassemblement Wallonie France7,3940.11–0.4400
Mouvement de Gauche4,5290.07New0New
Lutte Ouvrière3,5390.05New0New
PP Partipensionnes3,1780.05–0.0600
Front Wallon3,0800.05New0New
New Alternative Wallonia2,7850.04New0New
Sociaal Democraten & Progressieven2,2980.03New0New
PP2,2810.03New0New
P+2,2540.03New0New
Valeurs Libérales Citoyennes2,0280.03New0New
Walloon Rally1,5980.02New0New
Gauches Communes1,4450.02New0New
Vox Populi Belgica1,2800.02New0New
Égalitaires !9530.01New0New
Partij Voor Gehandicapten en Welzijn9320.01New0New
Parti Libertarien7500.01New0New
MGJOD4600.01New0New
CIM4300.01New0New
MOVE4000.01New0New
Agora Erasmus3820.01New0New
LaLutte-DeStrijd2130.00New0New
Total6,744,547100.001500
Valid votes6,744,54794.23
Invalid/blank votes412,9515.77
Total votes7,157,498100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,008,77689.37
Source: IBZ

In detail edit

Dutch-speaking constituencies Bilingual constituency
Party Antwerp East Flanders Flemish Brabant Limburg West Flanders Brussels
Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats
N-VA 449,531 39.38 11 306,309 31.03 6 192,698 28.37 5 174,030 31.39 5 230,265 28.50 6 13,240 2.65 0
CD&V 183,636 16.09 4 177,178 17.95 4 112,251 16.53 3 125,962 22.72 3 175,669 21.74 4 8,193 1.64 0
OPEN VLD 116,892 10.24 2 178,911 18.12 4 170,128 25.05 4 68,713 12.39 2 111,388 13.79 2 13,294 2.66 0
SP.A 132,096 11.57 3 131,607 13.33 3 81,254 11.96 2 98,194 17.71 2 142,406 17.63 3 9,633 1.93 0
GROEN 112,477 9.85 2 90,144 9.13 2 59,096 8.70 1 33,244 6.00 0 63,657 7.88 1 ECOLO
VL. BELANG 79,852 7.00 2 61,523 6.23 1 28,857 4.25 0 34,020 6.14 0 38,232 4.73 0 5,165 1.03 0
PTB/PVDA+ 51,638 4.52 0 26,294 2.66 0 12,664 1.86 0 14,253 2.57 0 13,397 1.66 0 PTB/PVDA–GO!
Total 1,141,541 100.00 24 987,205 100.00 20 679,125 100.00 15 554,454 100.00 12 807,929 100.00 16
French-speaking constituencies Bilingual constituency
Party Hainaut Liège Luxembourg Namur Walloon Brabant Brussels
Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats Votes Perc. Seats
PS 303,085 41.04 9 187,934 30.00 5 37,373 22.02 1 83,361 27.83 2 51,359 21.41 1 124,053 24.86 5
MR 153,304 20.76 5 158,062 25.23 5 41,346 24.36 1 84,788 28.31 2 97,741 40.75 3 115,049 23.05 4
CDH 76,812 10.40 2 81,789 13.05 2 56,702 33.41 2 48,135 16.07 1 26,335 10.98 0 46,508 9.32 2
ECOLO 43,489 5.89 1 56,902 9.08 1 13,471 7.94 0 29,186 9.74 1 27,356 11.40 1 52,147 10.45 2
PTB/PVDA–GO! 38,194 5.17 1 50,609 8.08 1 4,003 2.36 0 14,559 4.86 0 6,449 2.69 0 19,142 3.84 0
FDF 14,382 1.95 0 13,917 2.22 0 2,811 1.66 0 8,367 2.79 0 11,198 4.67 0 55,323 11.08 2
PP 32,158 4.35 0 32,237 5.15 1 6,980 4.11 0 13,029 4.35 0 9,544 3.98 0 8,651 1.73 0
Total 738,496 100.00 18 601,826 100.00 15 169,719 100.00 4 299,512 100.00 6 239,869 100.00 5 499,082 100.00 15

Senate edit

2014 marked the first year when the Senate was no longer directly elected, since the sixth state reform of 2011. Now, the regional parliaments elect 50 senators based on the results of the concurrent regional elections (the Flemish Parliament elects 29, the Parliament of the French Community elects ten, the Walloon Parliament elects eight, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region elects two Francophone senators and the Parliament of the German-speaking Community elects one). The elected senators in turn co-opt 10 senators (six Dutch-speaking and four Francophone), making a total of 60 senators.

The distributiuon of seats among parties resulted as following:[22]

Government formation edit

On 27 May, King Philippe nominated Bart De Wever (N-VA) as informateur, meaning he is tasked with finding enough points of agreement for a possible coalition.[23]

After five months of discussions, a centre-right coalition of four parties (CD&V, Open Vld, MR and N-VA) came to agreement on 7 October with Walloon Charles Michel as prime minister. Yet it is a Flanders-focused coalition that excludes Socialists from the government for the first time in 26 years.[24] Michel would be Belgium's youngest prime minister after the 28 hours of discussions over achieving a balanced budget by 2018. The announcement was made by party colleague and Budget Minister Olivier Chastel on Twitter: "Charles Michel becomes prime minister."[25]

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Federal elections were held in Belgium on 25 May 2014 1 All 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected whereas the Senate was no longer directly elected following the 2011 2012 state reform These were the first elections held under King Philippe s reign 2014 Belgian federal election 2010 25 May 2014 2014 05 25 2019 All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives76 seats needed for a majorityTurnout89 37 Party Leader Seats N VA Bart De Wever 20 26 33 6 PS Elio Di Rupo 11 67 23 3 CD amp V Wouter Beke 11 61 18 1 Open Vld Gwendolyn Rutten 9 78 14 1 MR Charles Michel 9 64 20 2 sp a Bruno Tobback 8 83 13 0 Groen Wouter Van Besien 5 32 6 1 cdH Benoit Lutgen 4 98 9 0 PVDA PTB Peter Mertens 3 72 2 2 VB Gerolf Annemans 3 67 3 9 Ecolo Olivier Deleuze amp Emily Hoyos 3 30 6 2 FDF Olivier Maingain 1 80 2 New PP Mischael Modrikamen 1 50 1 0 This lists parties that won seats See the complete results below Results by constituencyFederal Government before Federal Government afterDi Rupo Government Michel I Government Contents 1 Date 2 Electoral system 2 1 Voters 2 2 Timetable 3 Background and reforms since last election 4 Election campaign 4 1 Jewish Museum shooting 5 Political parties 5 1 Current situation 5 2 Main candidates 5 2 1 Dutch speaking constituencies 5 2 2 French speaking constituencies 6 Opinion polling 7 Results 7 1 In detail 7 2 Senate 8 Government formation 9 References 10 External linksDate editAs part of the state reform adopted 19 December 2013 2 the date of election will from now on coincide with the European elections 3 which the Council of the EU has scheduled for 22 25 May 2014 4 The regional elections in Belgium already constitutionally coincide with the European elections consequently Belgians will vote for three elections on the same day On 25 April 2014 a declaration to amend the Constitution was adopted formally dissolving parliament and triggering new elections within 40 days 5 Electoral system edit nbsp 24 20 15 15 18 15 12 4 6 5 16 nbsp Flanders nbsp Wallonia nbsp Brussels The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives are elected in 11 multi member constituencies being the ten provinces and Brussels with between 4 and 24 seats Seats are allocated using the d Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 5 per constituency 6 Apportionment of seats is done every ten years last by royal order of 31 January 2013 based on the population figures of 28 May 2012 Representatives elected from the five Flemish Region provinces Antwerp 24 East Flanders 20 Flemish Brabant 15 Limburg 12 and West Flanders 16 automatically belong to the Dutch speaking language group in parliament whereas those elected from the five provinces of Wallonia Hainaut 18 Liege 15 Luxembourg 4 Namur 6 and Walloon Brabant 5 form the French speaking language group The 15 members elected in Brussels may choose to join either group though de facto only French speaking parties reach the threshold The 60 member Senate is composed of 50 representatives from the regional and community parliaments plus 10 co opted senators proportionally divided among parties based on the result of the federal election Voters edit All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over are obligated to participate in the election Foreigners residing in Belgium regardless of EU citizenship cannot vote whereas Belgian citizens living abroad may register to vote Following the sixth state reform they can no longer freely choose in which constituency their vote counts instead the municipality is objectively defined by statutory criteria Since the previous elections were snap elections there was more preparation time now allowing for significantly increased use of the option compared to 2010 The electoral roll was fixed per 1 March 2014 2014 2010 difference Eligible Belgians residing in Belgium 7 879 874 7 725 463 154 411 2 00 Eligible Belgians residing abroad 128 902 42 089 86 813 206 26 voted in person or by proxy in a municipality in Belgium 20 241 9 741 10 500 107 79 voted in person or by proxy in the Belgian diplomatic or consular post where they registered 19 080 13 089 5 991 45 77 voted by mail 89 581 19 259 70 322 365 14 Total 8 008 776 7 767 552 241 224 3 11 151 Flemish municipalities and 2 Brussels municipalities voted electronically the remaining 157 Flemish and 17 Brussels and all 262 Walloon municipalities voted by paper ballot Timetable edit 25 February Start of the waiting period sperperiode running until the day of the election during which political propaganda and expenses are strictly regulated 1 March The electoral roll is fixed by municipal authorities 25 April The Parliament adopts a declaration to amend the Constitution formally dissolving parliament and triggering elections within 40 days 5 10 May Final day for the official announcement of the election and the convocation letter to voters 21 May Polling day for Belgians residing abroad in the embassies and consular posts 25 May Polling day from 8am until 2pm or until 4pm where voting is done electronically 19 June Constitutive session of the newly elected Chamber of RepresentativesBackground and reforms since last election editMain articles 2010 2011 Belgian government formation 2007 2011 Belgian political crisis and Sixth Belgian state reform The previous 2010 election resulted in a victory for Flemish nationalist N VA The coalition formation stalemate went on for a record breaking 541 days Eventually the negotiating parties agreed upon a sixth Belgian state reform and the Di Rupo Government was finally formed on 6 December 2011 and comprised PS MR CD amp V Open VLD sp a and cdH The state reform has the following consequences for the election in 2014 The controversial electoral constituency of Brussels Halle Vilvoorde no longer exists rather each province plus the federal capital now has its own constituency and voter discrimination has been abolished The Senate will no longer be directly elected The term length will be increased from 4 years to 5 years and the election will always coincide with the European Parliament election 3 Election campaign editThe campaign topics largely focused on socio economic reforms job creation and unemployment tax reform pensions This campaign also featured an unprecedented level of quantified programmes by political parties For example the N VA released its V plan and CD amp V its 3D plan One week before the election day former CD amp V Prime Minister Jean Luc Dehaene suddenly died while in France Several debates were cancelled and CD amp V as well as all other Flemish parties suspended their campaign for a few days 7 Jewish Museum shooting edit On 24 May the day before the elections a shooting occurred at the Belgian Jewish Museum in Brussels with three people reported dead 8 Self described anti Zionist MP Laurent Louis suggested that the attack could be a false flag operation seeking to discredit him and his political party Debout les Belges or Stand Up Belgians on the eve of the elections 9 Political parties edit nbsp The primary six Flemish political parties and their results for the House of Representatives Kamer From 1978 to 2014 in percentages for the complete Kingdom Current situation edit In 2010 ten parties won seats in the Belgian Senate Christen Democratisch en Vlaams CD amp V Centre Democrate Humaniste cdH Socialistische Partij Anders sp a Parti Socialiste PS Open Vld Mouvement Reformateur MR Groen Ecolo New Flemish Alliance N VA and Vlaams Belang In the Chamber of Representatives the People s Party PP and Libertarian Direct Democratic LDD each also won one seat During the legislation the Francophone Democratic Federalists FDF separated from the MR party and are now represented in the Chamber with 3 representatives but have no Senators The PP Member of Parliament left the party and became an independent One Vlaams Belang member of the Chamber and one Vlaams Belang member of the Senate left their party and decided to become independents Thus currently the ten major parties are represented in both the Chamber and the Senate in addition LDD and FDF are represented in the Chamber of Representatives However most of the major parties only operate in the Dutch speaking or in the French speaking constituencies Voters who live in the provinces of Antwerp East Flanders Flemish Brabant Limburg or West Flanders can only vote for CD amp V Groen N VA Open VLD sp a and Vlaams Belang apart from the minor parties except when a French speaking party would present a list in one of these provinces which has not happened except for a FDF and a PP list in Flemish Brabant In the provinces of Hainaut Liege Luxembourg Namur and Walloon Brabant voters can only vote for cdH Ecolo MR and PS apart from the minor parties except when a Dutch speaking party would present a list in one of these provinces which has not happened in this elections In the constituency of Liege the German speaking parties CSP Ecolo PFF and SP all form one list with their French speaking counterparts the name of these lists only mention the French speaking party Therefore the CSP politicians are on the cdH list the Ecolo ones on the Ecolo list PFF on the MR list and SP on the PS list The other German speaking parties ProDG and Vivant do not present a list due to their marginal chance of getting a seat in Parliament In the constituency of Brussels Capital Ecolo and Groen formed one list under the name Ecolo 10 CD amp V N VA Open Vld sp a and Vlaams Belang will each present a single list LDD only presented a list in West Flanders FDF presented a list in all Walloon constituencies in Brussels Capital and in Flemish Brabant PVDA PTB presented a list in all eleven constituencies of Belgium making it one of the few parties which are represented in the whole of Belgium Main candidates edit The following candidates are the first on the respective party list lijsttrekker tete de liste per constituency Dutch speaking constituencies edit Party nbsp Antwerp nbsp East Flanders nbsp Flemish Brabant nbsp Limburg nbsp West Flanders nbsp Brussels Major parties CD amp V Servais Verherstraeten Pieter De Crem Koen Geens Wouter Beke Hendrik Bogaert Benjamin Dalle Groen Meyrem Almaci Stefaan Van Hecke Anne Dedry Katrijn Conjaerts Wouter De Vriendt Annalisa Gadaleta 3rd on ECOLO list N VA Bart De Wever Siegfried Bracke Theo Francken Steven Vandeput Brecht Vermeulen Luc Demullier Open Vld Annemie Turtelboom Alexander De Croo Maggie De Block Patrick Dewael Vincent Van Quickenborne Thomas Ryckalts sp a Monica De Coninck Karin Temmerman Hans Bonte Peter Van Velthoven Johan Vande Lanotte Maite Morren Vlaams Belang Filip Dewinter Barbara Pas Philip Claeys Bert Schoofs Peter Logghe Hilde Roossens Minor parties LDD Jean Marie Dedecker PVDA Peter Mertens Tom De Meester Sander Vandecapelle Kim De Witte Filip Desmet Benjamin Pestieau BUB Vincent Massaut Bic Verbiest Marie Luce Lovinfosse Tonnie Brichard Mileen Verpoorten Hans Van de Cauter Pirate Party Christophe Cop Jonas De Koning Jo Vols French speaking constituencies edit Party nbsp Hainaut nbsp Liege nbsp Luxembourg nbsp Namur nbsp Walloon Brabant nbsp Brussels Major parties cdH Catherine Fonck Melchior Wathelet Benoit Lutgen Benoit Dispa Cedric du Monceau Francis Delperee Ecolo Jean Marc Nollet Muriel Gerkens Cecile Thibaut Georges Gilkinet Marcel Cheron Zakia Khattabi FDF Christophe Verbist Hugues Lannoy Serge Saintes Monique Felix Amaury Alexandre Olivier Maingain MR Olivier Chastel Daniel Bacquelaine Dominique Tilmans Sabine Laruelle Charles Michel Didier Reynders PS Elio Di Rupo Willy Demeyer Philippe Courard Jean Marc Delizee Andre Flahaut Laurette Onkelinx Minor parties PTB Marco Van Hees Raoul Hedebouw Jonathan Taffarel Thierry Warmoes Liza Lebrun Benjamin Pestieau PP Mischael Modrikamen Aldo Carcaci Michel Renquin Nathalie Strubbe Michael Debast Tatiana Hachimi BUB Romuald Joly Nicolas Jacquemin Jo Conter Adrien Mertens Dimitri Paree Hans van de Cauter Pirate Party Paul Bossu Paul Thunissen Opinion polling editThe results of the opinion polls are usually split into separate numbers for the three Belgian regions Below they are transposed to national figures Date s conducted Newspaper N VA PS CD amp V MR sp a Open Vld VB CDH Ecolo Groen Others Lead 15 April 2014 La Libre Belgique 20 6 10 2 10 7 8 4 8 5 8 7 6 4 3 7 3 9 4 9 14 0 9 9 over CD amp V 11 October 2013 De Standaard 17 6 12 0 8 4 8 7 6 7 6 3 40 4 5 6 over CD amp V 6 September 2013 La Libre Belgique 11 22 3 10 8 10 9 8 8 7 6 7 5 7 2 4 7 4 7 4 4 11 2 11 4 over CD amp V 1 September 2013 Le Soir 19 3 11 3 10 8 8 7 8 0 8 9 7 5 4 5 4 3 4 0 12 5 8 0 over PS 16 June 2013 Le Soir 12 22 0 10 5 9 9 8 3 8 7 8 3 5 9 4 6 4 7 4 8 12 1 11 5 over PS 25 May 2013 La Libre Belgique 13 20 6 10 2 10 0 8 9 8 9 8 1 8 1 4 7 5 4 4 1 11 0 10 4 over PS 25 May 2013 De Standaard 14 20 2 10 9 9 3 6 4 6 7 6 0 40 5 9 3 over CD amp V 24 March 2013 Le Soir 15 21 2 11 8 10 5 8 6 8 6 7 8 6 6 5 0 4 4 4 9 10 7 9 4 over PS 16 March 2013 Het Laatste Nieuws 16 21 0 9 4 8 5 7 5 7 0 5 2 41 4 11 6 over CD amp V 22 February 2013 La Libre Belgique 17 24 3 10 8 8 8 9 0 9 3 6 2 4 2 4 6 4 7 5 4 12 7 13 5 over PS 14 October 2012 Provincial election 2012 18 19 18 0 11 7 13 5 10 2 8 6 9 2 5 6 6 2 4 8 5 3 6 7 4 5 over CD amp V 14 September 2012 De Standaard 20 22 6 11 5 9 0 6 7 5 9 4 9 39 4 11 1 over CD amp V 10 June 2010 Federal election 2010 21 17 4 13 7 10 8 9 3 9 2 8 6 7 8 5 5 4 8 4 4 8 4 3 7 over PSResults editAt the Flemish side Vlaams Belang and LDD suffered major losses their votes went to N VA which increased its position as largest party CD amp V Open Vld and Groen gained slightly as well while sp a lost slightly At the French speaking side PS cdH and Ecolo suffer losses while MR gained as well as newcomers PTB GO and FDF nbsp PartyVotes Seats New Flemish Alliance1 366 39720 26 2 8633 6Parti Socialiste787 05811 67 2 0323 3Christen Democratisch en Vlaams783 04011 61 0 7618 1Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten659 5719 78 1 1414 1Mouvement Reformateur650 2609 64 0 3620 2Socialistische Partij Anders595 4668 83 0 41130Groen358 9475 32 0 946 1Centre democrate humaniste336 1844 98 0 5490Vlaams Belang247 7383 67 4 093 9Ecolo222 5243 30 1 506 2Parti du Travail de Belgique GO 132 9431 97New2NewFrancophone Democratic Federalists121 3841 80New2NewPartij van de Arbeid 118 3331 75 0 9400People s Party102 5811 52 0 2310Debout Les Belges 58 0430 86New0NewLibertair Direct Democratisch28 4140 42 1 890 1La Droite26 0350 39New0NewPirate Party23 1690 34New0NewFaire place Nette15 4670 23New0NewISLAM13 7190 20New0NewBelgian Union12 1030 18 0 1400ROSSEM11 6800 17New0NewWallonie d Abord11 2210 17 0 3900Nation10 2160 15New0NewPirate9 8450 15New0NewRassemblement Wallonie France7 3940 11 0 4400Mouvement de Gauche4 5290 07New0NewLutte Ouvriere3 5390 05New0NewPP Partipensionnes3 1780 05 0 0600Front Wallon3 0800 05New0NewNew Alternative Wallonia2 7850 04New0NewSociaal Democraten amp Progressieven2 2980 03New0NewPP2 2810 03New0NewP 2 2540 03New0NewValeurs Liberales Citoyennes2 0280 03New0NewWalloon Rally1 5980 02New0NewGauches Communes1 4450 02New0NewVox Populi Belgica1 2800 02New0NewEgalitaires 9530 01New0NewPartij Voor Gehandicapten en Welzijn9320 01New0NewParti Libertarien7500 01New0NewMGJOD4600 01New0NewCIM4300 01New0NewMOVE4000 01New0NewAgora Erasmus3820 01New0NewLaLutte DeStrijd2130 00New0NewTotal6 744 547100 00 1500Valid votes6 744 54794 23Invalid blank votes412 9515 77Total votes7 157 498100 00Registered voters turnout8 008 77689 37Source IBZ In detail edit Dutch speaking constituencies Bilingual constituency Party Antwerp East Flanders Flemish Brabant Limburg West Flanders Brussels Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats N VA 449 531 39 38 11 306 309 31 03 6 192 698 28 37 5 174 030 31 39 5 230 265 28 50 6 13 240 2 65 0 CD amp V 183 636 16 09 4 177 178 17 95 4 112 251 16 53 3 125 962 22 72 3 175 669 21 74 4 8 193 1 64 0 OPEN VLD 116 892 10 24 2 178 911 18 12 4 170 128 25 05 4 68 713 12 39 2 111 388 13 79 2 13 294 2 66 0 SP A 132 096 11 57 3 131 607 13 33 3 81 254 11 96 2 98 194 17 71 2 142 406 17 63 3 9 633 1 93 0 GROEN 112 477 9 85 2 90 144 9 13 2 59 096 8 70 1 33 244 6 00 0 63 657 7 88 1 ECOLO VL BELANG 79 852 7 00 2 61 523 6 23 1 28 857 4 25 0 34 020 6 14 0 38 232 4 73 0 5 165 1 03 0 PTB PVDA 51 638 4 52 0 26 294 2 66 0 12 664 1 86 0 14 253 2 57 0 13 397 1 66 0 PTB PVDA GO Total 1 141 541 100 00 24 987 205 100 00 20 679 125 100 00 15 554 454 100 00 12 807 929 100 00 16 French speaking constituencies Bilingual constituency Party Hainaut Liege Luxembourg Namur Walloon Brabant Brussels Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats Votes Perc Seats PS 303 085 41 04 9 187 934 30 00 5 37 373 22 02 1 83 361 27 83 2 51 359 21 41 1 124 053 24 86 5 MR 153 304 20 76 5 158 062 25 23 5 41 346 24 36 1 84 788 28 31 2 97 741 40 75 3 115 049 23 05 4 CDH 76 812 10 40 2 81 789 13 05 2 56 702 33 41 2 48 135 16 07 1 26 335 10 98 0 46 508 9 32 2 ECOLO 43 489 5 89 1 56 902 9 08 1 13 471 7 94 0 29 186 9 74 1 27 356 11 40 1 52 147 10 45 2 PTB PVDA GO 38 194 5 17 1 50 609 8 08 1 4 003 2 36 0 14 559 4 86 0 6 449 2 69 0 19 142 3 84 0 FDF 14 382 1 95 0 13 917 2 22 0 2 811 1 66 0 8 367 2 79 0 11 198 4 67 0 55 323 11 08 2 PP 32 158 4 35 0 32 237 5 15 1 6 980 4 11 0 13 029 4 35 0 9 544 3 98 0 8 651 1 73 0 Total 738 496 100 00 18 601 826 100 00 15 169 719 100 00 4 299 512 100 00 6 239 869 100 00 5 499 082 100 00 15 Senate edit 2014 marked the first year when the Senate was no longer directly elected since the sixth state reform of 2011 Now the regional parliaments elect 50 senators based on the results of the concurrent regional elections the Flemish Parliament elects 29 the Parliament of the French Community elects ten the Walloon Parliament elects eight the Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region elects two Francophone senators and the Parliament of the German speaking Community elects one The elected senators in turn co opt 10 senators six Dutch speaking and four Francophone making a total of 60 senators The distributiuon of seats among parties resulted as following 22 nbsp PartySeatsElectedCo optedTotal New Flemish Alliance10212 3Socialist Party819 2Christian Democratic and Flemish718 4Reformist Movement718 4Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats415 1Socialist Party Differently415 1Humanist Democratic Centre314 2Ecolo213 1Groen213 2Vlaams Belang202 1Party for Freedom and Progress101 1Total501060 11Government formation editMain article 2014 Belgian government formation On 27 May King Philippe nominated Bart De Wever N VA as informateur meaning he is tasked with finding enough points of agreement for a possible coalition 23 After five months of discussions a centre right coalition of four parties CD amp V Open Vld MR and N VA came to agreement on 7 October with Walloon Charles Michel as prime minister Yet it is a Flanders focused coalition that excludes Socialists from the government for the first time in 26 years 24 Michel would be Belgium s youngest prime minister after the 28 hours of discussions over achieving a balanced budget by 2018 The announcement was made by party colleague and Budget Minister Olivier Chastel on Twitter Charles Michel becomes prime minister 25 References edit Europa bekrachtigt 25 mei als Belgische verkiezingsdatum HLN Retrieved 11 October 2014 1 Archived 6 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine a b Proposal for a revision of the Belgian Constitution senate be COUNCIL DECISION 2013 299 EU Euratom of 14 June 2013 fixing the period for the eighth election of representatives to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage published on 21 June 2013 by the Official Journal of the European Union L 169 69 a b 25 AVRIL 2014 Declaration de revision de la Constitution Belgian Official Journal Electoral system IPU CD amp V schort campagne op na overlijden van Dehaene deredactie be 15 May 2014 Three die in Brussels shooting at Jewish Museum deredactie be 24 May 2014 Laurent Louis 24 May 2014 Facebook post by Laurent LOUIS Groen en Ecolo op een federale lijst in Brussel deredactie be Retrieved 11 October 2014 Barometre La N VA gagne 2 7 en Flandre Lalibre be Retrieved 11 October 2014 Le PS en net recul en Wallonie la N VA toujours loin devant en Flandre les documents du Soir Retrieved 11 October 2014 La N VA perd du poids le PS en petite forme Retrieved 11 October 2014 N VA krijgt een tik De Standaard Retrieved 11 October 2014 Grand barometre la N VA recule de trois points lesoir be Retrieved 11 October 2014 CD amp V beperkt de schade HLN Retrieved 11 October 2014 Barometre politique RTBF La Libre indecrottable N VA RTBF Info Retrieved 11 October 2014 2012 Vlaanderenkiest Vlaanderenkiest be Retrieved 11 October 2014 2 Archived 28 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine Open VLD op dieptepunt De Standaard Retrieved 11 October 2014 3 Archived 9 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine N VA goed voor een vijfde van de senatoren De Standaard in Dutch 26 May 2014 Retrieved 23 January 2024 Bart De Wever nomme informateur par le Roi LaLibre be 27 May 2014 Belgium agrees to form coalition government Deutsche Welle Retrieved 11 October 2014 Belgium on course for government led by youngest PM Uk reuters com Retrieved 11 October 2014 External links edit2014 elections belgium be Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2014 Belgian federal election amp oldid 1218212222, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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