Belgian general election, 1977
Belgian general election, 1977
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General elections were held in Belgium on 17 April 1977.[1] The result was a victory for the Christian People's Party, which won 56 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 28 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 95.1%.[2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils and for the Council of the German Cultural Community.
Results
Chamber of Deputies
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
Christian People's Party | 1,460,757 | 26.20 | 56 | +6 |
Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) | 725,513 | 13.01 | 27 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party | 602,132 | 10.80 | 34 | New |
People's Union | 559,567 | 10.04 | 20 | –2 |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 475,917 | 8.54 | 17 | New |
Christian Social Party | 406,694 | 7.29 | 24 | +2 |
Democratic Front of the Francophones | 263,104 | 4.72 | 11 | New |
Liberal Reformist Party | 191,196 | 3.34 | 16 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 145,771 | 2.61 | 0 | 0 |
PSC-CSP | 138,361 | 2.48 | 0 | New |
Walloon Rally | 132,773 | 2.38 | 4 | –7 |
PLRW/PRF | 107,015 | 1.92 | 0 | New |
PLRW-PL | 92,178 | 1.65 | 0 | New |
Communist Party of Belgium | 62,410 | 1.12 | 0 | –2 |
PCB-UDP | 51,930 | 0.93 | 0 | New |
Community Party (Wallonia) | 37,104 | 0.67 | 2 | New |
PSB-RW | 33,598 | 0.60 | 1 | New |
AMADA | 22,919 | 0.41 | 0 | New |
ECOLOG | 11,839 | 0.21 | 0 | New |
RAL | 8,562 | 0.15 | 0 | New |
Party of German-speaking Belgians | 7,735 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 |
PLPW | 5,220 | 0.09 | 0 | New |
ECOLOG-PBNZ | 4,321 | 0.08 | 0 | New |
Ecolo | 3,834 | 0.07 | 0 | New |
LRT-RAL | 3,127 | 0.06 | 0 | New |
LRT | 2,905 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
AGALEV | 2,435 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
FFF | 2,099 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
TPO | 1,980 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
CPC/URB | 1,547 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
PRF | 1,514 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
RLiège | 1,421 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
UB | 1,083 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
FNP | 994 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
VFP | 967 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
KAGANO | 884 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
COLOGIQUE | 777 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
EW | 605 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
PCBML | 533 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
VOP | 443 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
VB77 | 377 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
UCMLB | 222 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
UC-MEUNIER | 199 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
PORT | 175 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
PP | 169 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
POE | 152 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 431,153 | – | – | – |
Total | 6,006,211 | 100 | 212 | 0 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
Senate
Party |
Votes |
% |
Seats |
+/– |
Christian People's Party | 1,446,806 | 26.18 | 28 | +1 |
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 756,401 | 13.69 | 19 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) | 719,533 | 13.02 | 12 | New |
People's Union | 562,894 | 10.19 | 10 | 0 |
Christian Social Party | 522,613 | 9.46 | 11 | +1 |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 472,645 | 8.55 | 9 | New |
Liberal Reformist Party | 316,292 | 5.72 | 7 | New |
Democratic Front of the Francophones | 546,367 | 4.46 | 6 | New |
Walloon Rally | 158,642 | 2.87 | 2 | New |
Communist Party of Belgium | 108,000 | 1.95 | 1 | 0 |
PL | 70,458 | 1.28 | 0 | New |
PCB-UDP | 50,749 | 0.92 | 0 | New |
BSP-RW | 33,945 | 0.61 | 1 | New |
AMADA-TPO | 27,693 | 0.50 | 0 | New |
Party of German-speaking Belgians | 10,213 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 |
Ecolo | 7,558 | 0.14 | 0 | New |
PLPW | 5,305 | 0.10 | 0 | New |
VFP-PFU | 3,413 | 0.06 | 0 | New |
AGALEV | 3,270 | 0.06 | 0 | New |
UB | 1,182 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
VOP | 896 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
LRT-RAL | 387 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
URB | 207 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 486,091 | – | – | – |
Total | 6,012,062 | 100 | 106 | 0 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
References
- ↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p291