1999 Luxembourg general election

General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 1999,[1] alongside European Parliament elections. The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 19 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.[2] It formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party.[3]

1999 Luxembourg general election
13 June 1999
All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
31 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jean-Claude Juncker Lydie Polfer Jean Asselborn
Party CSV DP LSAP
Last election 21 seats, 30.3% 12 seats, 19.3% 14 seats, 23.4%
Seats won 19 15 13
Seat change 2 3 4
Popular vote 870,985 632,707 695,718
Percentage 30.1% 22.4% 22.3%
Swing 0.2% 3.1% 3.1%
Results:
  CSV
  DP
  LSAP
Prime Minister before election

Jean-Claude Juncker
CSV

 Prime Minister-designate

Jean-Claude Juncker
CSV

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Candidates
List # Party Running in Existing seats
Centre Est Nord Sud
1 The Left 0
2 Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) 17
3 Democratic Party (DP) 12
4 Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice 5
5 Green and Liberal Alliance (GaL) 0
6 Christian Social People's Party (CSV) 21
7 The Greens 5
8 The Taxpayer 0
9 Party of the Third Age 0

Results
Party Votes %[a] Seats +/–
Christian Social People's Party870,98530.119–2
Democratic Party632,70722.415+3
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party695,71822.313–4
Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice303,73411.37+2
The Greens266,6449.150
The Left110,2743.31New
Green and Liberal Alliance32,0141.10New
The Taxpayer12,5430.40New
Party of the Third Age5,3820.10New
Total2,930,001100600
Valid votes178,88093.5
Invalid/blank votes12,3876.5
Total191,267100
Registered voters/turnout221,10386.5
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, STATEC

a The percentage of votes is not related to the number of votes in the table, as voters could cast more votes in some constituencies than others, and is instead calculated based on the proportion of votes received in each constituency.[4]

Popular Vote
CSV
 
 30.10%
DP
 
 22.35%
LSAP
 
 22.29%
ADR
 
 11.31%
Déi Gréng
 
 9.08%
Déi Lénk
 
 3.30%
GaL
 
 1.07%
Others
 
 0.50%
Seats
CSV
 
 31.67%
DP
 
 25.00%
LSAP
 
 21.67%
ADR
 
 11.67%
Déi Gréng
 
 8.33%
Déi Lénk
 
 1.67%

Results by locality
The CSV (orange) won most of the countryside, whilst the LSAP (red) won the major towns in the Red Lands and the DP (light blue) won Luxembourg City and its eastern suburbs.

The CSV won pluralities in three of the four circonscriptions, falling behind the Democratic Party in Centre (around Luxembourg City) but beating the LSAP in its core Sud constituency. Much of the realignment nationally can be explained by a weakening of the LSAP's position in Sud, which has the most seats and where the LSAP's share of the vote fell from 33.5% to 29.8%, to the advantage of both the CSV and the DP.[5]

CSV DP LSAP ADR Greens The Left GaL Taxpayer Pv3A
Centre 28.0% 30.1% 17.2% 9.5% 9.7% 2.8% 1.4% 1.3% -
Est 32.4% 24.6% 18.0% 13.6% 8.6% 1.6% 1.1% - -
Nord 31.3% 24.3% 16.5% 16.7% 9.2% 1.4% 0.8% - -
Sud 30.3% 15.4% 29.8% 9.5% 8.7% 5.0% 0.9% - 0.4%

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 86 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in 14 communes, mostly in the Red Lands in the south. The DP won 18 communes, particularly in its heartland of Luxembourg City and the surrounding communes.[5]

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1262
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1236
  4. Nohlen & Stöver, p1254
  5. "Répartition des suffrages en % du total des voix exprimés par parti et par commune 1994-2004" (in French). Statec. 15 October 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
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